For my last action this spring semester, I decided to go back to inquiring within the space of connection to the natural environment. However, this time, I decided to include my cohort. I asked them to describe (through writing) in a few seconds a place they had lived. The word place was particularly chosen not …
We see our world today and we believe in its contemporary characteristics, we accept that it is the way it is and naturalize it. The objects, concepts, and ideals that surround us have not always existed this way, in many cases, they can even be very new. However, we do not habitually remind ourselves of …
For this action, I decided to pay attention to the choices I make relating to my consumption habits and sustainability. Specifically, I attempted to map out instances of cognitive dissonance that related to these themes. For the purposes of this project, I focused on my personal choices. Therefore, I did not look at general group …
For prompt 4 we were asked to come up with a research question and start attempting to answer it. We had about 4 weeks to complete it. The first week I wrote down a series of questions, they ranged from large issues to smaller more specific questions, and even some existential questions. But after some …
For this prompt, we were asked to choose one reading and enter into dialogue with it. I read a few of the readings and ended up having two that I thought I could use for this assignment. They were: Ezio Manzini’s Resilient Systems and Sasha Costanza-Chock’s Design Narratives: From TXTMob to Twitter. Each of the …