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| === Stage2: Hiking with Monsters === | === Stage2: Hiking with Monsters === | ||
| - | ==== Hiking with Monsters at ArtEZ 2020/2021 ==== | ||
| - | Notes an a student program run by Theun. | ||
| - | == Session1 Fieldwork == | ||
| - | * Intro fieldwork practice | ||
| - | * Assignment: what place would you like to explore, how would you do it? | ||
| - | * Assignment 4th year: How do you share that exploration with others? | ||
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| - | == Session2 What lives here now. == | ||
| - | * Intro Nederlands landscape. | ||
| - | * Set up whatsapp (or otherwise) | ||
| - | * Field assignment: find a creature that interests you, < | ||
| - | * Or what qualities does it have? How do you think it finds its way in the world? Are there talents you share? < | ||
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| - | == Session3 Regeneration == | ||
| - | * Regenerative practices | ||
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| - | * guest: Vasanth Bosco | ||
| - | * review assignment last week | ||
| - | * Field assignment: Take a 1 hour hike from the perspective of your animal. Try to experience the world through it’s eyes, ears, of antennae. Slow as snail, fast as a bird. Report your experience, what do you notice about the area through the animal perspective? | ||
| - | * Design an exercise for others so they can experience the perspective of your animal. How can someone experience the world from that perspective? | ||
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| - | * Research assignment: What lived in your area before? What traces are left, if any? What do you think is missing now? What qualities does your environment lack? Choose one quality and propose a way it can be regenerated. | ||
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| - | == Session4 === | ||
| - | * take 4 characteristics or qualities from your animal and give them to a class mate. He/she designs a character based on the qualities and gives you back the ' | ||
| - | * take a 1 hour hike with your monster. | ||
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| - | == Session4 Rewilding == | ||
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| - | * In groups: what do each of your animals need? Where do their interests match or clash? How could such different needs be brought together? (Multispecies design) (Afterwards give example of Aboriginal totems). | ||
| - | * What timescale do you design for? | ||
| - | * Field assignment: what natural cycles are missing, disrupted? How to reconnect. (Any size, tiny ant tunnel) | ||
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| - | == Session5 Team work == | ||
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| - | * Group: Choose one of your animals. Make a list of the qualities of your animal. Give them to an other group and they will design a creature (character design, mythological being) based on those. < | ||
| - | * field assignment: hike with your Monster through your area: what do you notice from the monsters perspective? | ||
| - | * Assignment 4th year: How can the monster / creature activate local people? Or more formally: how can locals people become active participants in reconnecting environmental processes? | ||
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| - | == Session6 Animals as guides == | ||
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| - | * Choose an environmental process in your neighbourhood. Translate its properties into a being. Assignment: ask someone else to hike with that Monster. | ||
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| - | == Session7 == | ||
| - | * Qualities of animals and plants in the long now. | ||
| - | * Australia and aboriginals. Tending the wild. | ||
| - | * Assignment: memory walk | ||
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| - | == Session8 == | ||
| - | * Memory walk field test together. | ||
| - | * Assignment: design a multi generational knowledge system. How can our understanding and experience of the environment be shared across time? | ||
| - | * (Floppy disc vs. songline) | ||
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| - | == Session10 == | ||
| - | * Discuss the multigenerational knowledge systems. | ||
| ==== Reading notes ==== | ==== Reading notes ==== | ||
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| === Theun: === | === Theun: === | ||
| - | * The first step is looking at what structure / order makes sense for your ' | + | * The first step is looking at what structure / order makes sense for your ' |
| * Do I store it linearly? (for example a timeline) | * Do I store it linearly? (for example a timeline) | ||
| * Or grouped in a mind palace?(for example animal species) | * Or grouped in a mind palace?(for example animal species) | ||
| - | * A mindpalace is more oriented towards | + | * A mindpalace is more limited to memorising and doesn' |
| * linear / narrative models have a much wider impact than retention of memory, because they help see relationships and patterns | * linear / narrative models have a much wider impact than retention of memory, because they help see relationships and patterns | ||
| - | * it seems I go through | + | * usually there is a process of a few days figuring out what the most useful ordering might be and small tests with 5 or so elements trying out ways of encoding. |
| - | * You may know an area from memory, but going there physically always gives much more lively associations and surprising hooks. | + | * You may know an area from memory, but going there physically always gives much more lively associations and surprising |
| - | * I make very basic sketches as a shorthand to settle the hooks, associations, | + | * I make very basic sketches as a shorthand to settle the hooks, associations, |
| * This sketching also helps to figure out how much character I need to generate to capture details. | * This sketching also helps to figure out how much character I need to generate to capture details. | ||
| - | * If characters are needed, what action | + | |
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| * Later in the process I can see if I need extra emphasis using the physicality of make visible or tangible artefacts to endorse the memories? | * Later in the process I can see if I need extra emphasis using the physicality of make visible or tangible artefacts to endorse the memories? | ||
| - | * Lynne says that once established you will be inclined to do additional research on your subjects, I can confirm that. Making a mind-palace or walk, does trigger curiosity and you start to add more and more details into your subects, hooks, nodes.. (I observe this even after only two or three weeks of full-on engagement.) | + | * Lynne says that once established you will be inclined to do additional research on your subjects, I can confirm that. Making a mind-palace or walk, does trigger curiosity and you start to add more and more details into your subjects, hooks, nodes.. (I observe this even after only two or three weeks of full-on engagement.) |
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