sorry lawrence
maybe some way to gauge the way we've changed after the corp game is how we address future problems. and also how we reflect on solutions to problems of projects past. perhaps we are a new kind of design snob - rejecting products, form and colour, while replacing them with the need for an understnading of how a chair will change the social structure of a nation, and if it doesnt and if all it does is looks cool, then tis redundant, thats a worse knid of snob if you ask me.
anyway, what i was intending to say - remember when lawrence brought in his solution to the first project first semester. i dont even remember what the project was about, but ti was to do with sustainibility and there were a few pathways we could explore. i remember lawrence looked at alternatives for lighting in houses, and he came up with 2 solutions, with many great sketches and diagrams. his first was to refect light from a large mirror at the top of the house and reflect it through mirrors to light to house naturally, arguing that it wasnt that hard ot do anyway. the second idea was to have a network of fire flies buzzing aorund tubes and lighting the house naturally.
i think a lot of us thought these ideas were stupid and could never work, but perhaps by going through the corp game and also playgroup we have begun to let these ideas sink in a little more.
anyway, just a though i guess...
anyway, what i was intending to say - remember when lawrence brought in his solution to the first project first semester. i dont even remember what the project was about, but ti was to do with sustainibility and there were a few pathways we could explore. i remember lawrence looked at alternatives for lighting in houses, and he came up with 2 solutions, with many great sketches and diagrams. his first was to refect light from a large mirror at the top of the house and reflect it through mirrors to light to house naturally, arguing that it wasnt that hard ot do anyway. the second idea was to have a network of fire flies buzzing aorund tubes and lighting the house naturally.
i think a lot of us thought these ideas were stupid and could never work, but perhaps by going through the corp game and also playgroup we have begun to let these ideas sink in a little more.
anyway, just a though i guess...
posted by ben at 2:12 PM
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But how can we avoid being a snob? It's one of the easiest ways to justify actions, and choices. There has to be a right way and a wrong way to do something.? We can't stop it unless we acknowledge this feeling, and then see why we feel it.
does there have to be a right and a wrong? wish i could live in a world where things are as black and white as that. this is a world in which there are many shades of grey, which makes everything exceedingly complex - I am pretty sure that was something that emerged when we did that catergorisation and chaos thoery with soumitri - or at least that was something that i took from those exercises and lectures - that you can catergorise and see things in black and white but if you look below the skin then there are many shades of grey inbetween.
The question is not how do we avoid being "snobs" but how do we change peoples perception of us so that we don't appear to be this way OR are can you be comfortable with being a "snob" as there will always be someone who might see you like this, whether you like it or not. Me, I like to think I fall into the second category - being comfortable with being percieved as a snob - if people can't see below the surface at what is really there then bugger them.
hehe yeah I want to be the second one too. I don't think I could stop being a snob because of the fact you know most of the time it's seen that way through lack of understanding.
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