The readings we have done so far:
Jean Piaget - The Child and Animism excerpt
Don Norman - Emotional Design excerpts
Sigmund Freud - The Uncanny
The Reality of the Unseen - William James
Augmented Nature: Activated, Actuated and Animated Small Natures with Pervasive Computers
What things know: exhibiting animism as artefact-based design research
Animism in Burma
I have noticed that students like Shyamli and Pia are reading up outside of the readings that have been set for them. Thank you Shyamli for the readings you sent me.
The discussions have been lively in class and that is interesting.
We have many areas to cover before we become creative though.
PRESENTATIONS:
The presentations for your task on identifying some of the principles that you feel contribute to artefacts being "alive" or having a "soul" were interesting. Your followed up this task by listing out these principles and then creating a presentation consisting of objects that you felt had qualities of "animism", "life" or soul.
I think your most interesting discovery was that even if some of these properties appeared in an artefact or object, it did not automatically make the artefact come alive or infuse it with soul. So the problem of how this can take place looms larger still.
ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE
Nine of you had the opportunity also between April 10-13 to go out on an Environmental Exposure trip to BR Hills and had the chance to encounter a tribe called the Soligas who worship in a sacred grove and have shamans and are primarily animistic in their belief system.
Here are links to materials on BR Hills and the Soligas, and the organisations that played host to us.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_R_Hills
http://www.vgkk.org/
http://www.atree.org/
As an aside: Did any of you get to know that the endangered species called Malabar civet has been reported to have been spotted in the BR Hills region? If Siddharth, the friend we met there, succeeds, he will track this creature down to its lair and photograph it. If this report of spotting this animal is true, then the possibility is that they can be preserved and helped to multiply.
Jean Piaget - The Child and Animism excerpt
Don Norman - Emotional Design excerpts
Sigmund Freud - The Uncanny
The Reality of the Unseen - William James
Augmented Nature: Activated, Actuated and Animated Small Natures with Pervasive Computers
What things know: exhibiting animism as artefact-based design research
Animism in Burma
I have noticed that students like Shyamli and Pia are reading up outside of the readings that have been set for them. Thank you Shyamli for the readings you sent me.
The discussions have been lively in class and that is interesting.
We have many areas to cover before we become creative though.
PRESENTATIONS:
The presentations for your task on identifying some of the principles that you feel contribute to artefacts being "alive" or having a "soul" were interesting. Your followed up this task by listing out these principles and then creating a presentation consisting of objects that you felt had qualities of "animism", "life" or soul.
I think your most interesting discovery was that even if some of these properties appeared in an artefact or object, it did not automatically make the artefact come alive or infuse it with soul. So the problem of how this can take place looms larger still.
ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE
Nine of you had the opportunity also between April 10-13 to go out on an Environmental Exposure trip to BR Hills and had the chance to encounter a tribe called the Soligas who worship in a sacred grove and have shamans and are primarily animistic in their belief system.
Here are links to materials on BR Hills and the Soligas, and the organisations that played host to us.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_R_Hills
http://www.vgkk.org/
http://www.atree.org/
As an aside: Did any of you get to know that the endangered species called Malabar civet has been reported to have been spotted in the BR Hills region? If Siddharth, the friend we met there, succeeds, he will track this creature down to its lair and photograph it. If this report of spotting this animal is true, then the possibility is that they can be preserved and helped to multiply.
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