Quotes

"Dialogue is mutual search for a new reality, not debate to win with stronger arguments. In a dialogue propositions are pointers toward a common new reality; not against each other to win a verbal battle, but complementing each other in an effort to accommodate legitimate goals of all parties, inspired by theories and values, and constructive-creative-concrete enough to become a causa finalis". Galtuung


"I use the concept of affect as away of talking about a margin of manouverability, the 'where we might be able to go' and 'what we might be able to do' in every present situation. I guess 'affect' is a word I use for 'hope': Massumi


"A discourse is a system of words, actions, rules, beliefs, and institutions that share common values. Particular discourses sustain particular worldviews. We might even think of a discourse as a worldview in action. Discourses tend to be invisible--taken for granted as part of the fabric of reality."Fairclough


Emergence is “the principle that entities exhibit properties which are meaningful only when attributed to the whole, not to its parts.” Checkland


"What the designer cares about is whether the user perceives that some action is possible (or in the case of perceived non-affordances, not possible)." Norman




Tuesday, 10 May 2011

New Learning Plan - Topic



What?

My Design MA Learning Plan(Ref) was focussed on the design  of a 'Poetry game "Poeisis"  this was being designed as  one means (a.) of getting visitors of a proposed Social Network (The Bridge) ( an attempt to provide a pathway for the technically trained/limited to access their creative/expressive side)  to explore the value of Random Expressive Flow. 

My initial interest was  to enable  - people to research/elicit their own constructs...of creative potential -  and also the value of 'random expressive flow' to themselves in a creative context. The initially chosen method Repgrid (This has been set aside) . was chosen as individually focussed to allow for a  relativist epistemology but with structural/quantitative rigour...

One reason for accessing this course was to explore the need for/ value of such a network... as thebridge
Does the University Provide Something like this? Does the structure of the University enable this or not. What potential problems are there? How could these be avoided/solved? Should they be?

Visitors explore their  own constructs of  their own random expressive Flow - Value of it > Space given for exploring it- to individuals in different contexts.
The plan ( Initial How?) was:
1."Elicit and  clarify what individual (Visitor online) construction of creativity... (using Webgrid)
2. Read quotes of famous artists/inventors
3. Experiment with random Generators
4. Try Focus and Random Flow Exercises(Bridge)
5. Re elicit and compare with self / others
6. Discuss in Forums
(a.)Flow Exercises :(`Focus and Flow (Creative Writing Aid), Poetry(Poeisis), Music(W/Shop), Performance(Random Walks, Dance W/Shops)
(Webgrid is a research tool of Personal Construct Psychology (Kelly))


A Number of  Alternative Research Paradigms,  have been explored on this Course.


The Traditional/ Scientific/Prescriptive,Positivism & Post PositivismThe Interperative:PhenomenologyStructuralismPost Structuralism
Post Modernism


Much of this course has concerned the Social Construction of other people / discourses... meanings etc...











I need to choose a Research Question: and Target

(e.g. is access to this unfolding path enabled in  a specific department?)  Is it assumed as obvious?, that it will naturally emerge anyway? (what are/have been the potential issues regarding the promotion of such "free art" techniques in educational settings (such as culture clashes /stereotyping etc... ) (see context frame) Is the language bound up with specific technique.

How specific do I need to be... the essential question can get lost in thedetail.


Questions: 

"Constructs of Random Expressive Flow."... how do I rephrase this
As the term is my own... I need analogs from the departments


What language is used? is the language the same between departments...?
Between Students - Lecturers?


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