Task One – Prompt

20/07/2017

Task One – Prompt Post

‘Seeing the unseen’ is an interesting topic and it is the reason why I choose this studio. As we live in this colorful world, we also ignore many things, including sounds, views, people and others. Thus, this week’s reading, ‘Forms of Noticing’ really gives me a strong reflection of noticing and encourages us to pay attention to everything around us.

The author divides noticing into several forms, and Professional Noticing is the point that I interested in because I experienced it many times, I believe many people also experienced. We may saw someone else acting professionally or something was useful to us, we always remember it at that moment and remind ourselves to use it in our own way in the future. However, most of us will forget it when we leave the session.

Thus, noticing is exists anywhere but it does not happen commonly when we need do something practical. Marking and recording are two necessary steps to help us to remember something important and they are two methods that lead us to a deeper level.

For our group’s question, ‘Is noticing a negative thing’?

From my point of view, there is no accurate answer. In some situation, noticing is a positive thing, such as if we need to come up with ideas about our tasks, it is necessary for us to observe everything around us so that maybe we could find enlightenments that required. Moreover, noticing would make our life interesting. As ‘Mason noticing exercise’ we did at the class, I found many people still wear the t-shirt in winter. It is not a common situation in my country, but it is common in Australia, just like maybe someone will wear coat or jacket in summer. I have no idea why many people wear so differently, but it is really interesting to me because I never saw this situation before.

On the contrary, if the things that we noticing affect our lives, it would not be a good thing. For example, some people may pay attention to the sound of rain and this makes them cannot sleep deeply.

However, I still think noticing is a positive skill in most cases because it would help us to discover more details in daily life and be fun.

After the excursion in week 2, I thought it is helpful for me to get more points to understand the reading. As Patrica Pound said, ‘Some things have little to do with each other until they come into contact.’ Each photo and artifact are individual, but if we put them together, there might be some similarities.

Moreover, imaginatively liberating is another interesting point. In the gallery, many pictures and photos are strange, even I could not understand. For example, I remembered that there was a group of photos called ‘damaged’ and people’s faces on each photo were all disappeared or destroyed.

The last point of view I would like to mention is ‘exploded views’. Sometimes, dividing the whole part into several tiny sections and then explore each section would be a powerful ontographical tool. An exploded-view drawing offers just as much intrigue as it does use value.


Notes From wk 1 Reading:

The author proposed some forms of noticing and each of them is valuable:

Intentional Noticing:

This type of notice is more focus on the first impression that based on the first glance. At first glance, it seems a simple notion, and rather obvious. However, it is actually much more complex and far reaching than first appears. Thus, it is necessary for us to discover and think deeper when we notice something so that we could get the reflection and experiential learning. Reflection is the vogue term for intentionally learning from experience, but it is more talked about than carried out effectively. Meanwhile, experiential learning is the process of learning from experience, and for informing future practice.

Professional Noticing :

It is what we do when we watch someone else acting professionally and become aware of something that they do which we think we could use ourselves.

This form of notice is a useful point, however, I think the weakness of it is maybe the thing which seemed so salient and important at the time recedes into distant memory, perhaps never to re-appear.

Essence of Noticing:

This part is what our group focused on in the studio (page 31-33). In this part, the author focuses on how posture, gesture and speech affect people and links these to ‘essence of noticing’. In some cases, the conflicts would exist between posture and gesture, then a mixed message is likely to be communicated. Adults vary considerably in their conscious awareness of posture and gesture, but subconscious reading is part of learned social interaction. However, we considered that if children are more sensitive to posture and gesture than adult, because children cannot decorate and master the skills of language very well.

Noticing, Making and Recording:

Ordinary-noticing is easily lost from accessible memory. It is only available through being re-minded (literally) by someone or something else.

Marking is a heightened form of noticing which means there was something salient about the incident. It is a good way to re-marking, re-construction or reminds someone else or even yourself in the future.

Recording is the third level of intensity or energy in noticing. It requires motivation, for it takes extra energy beyond that required for marking.

Notes From wk 2 Reading:

Ontography – a name for a general inscriptive strategy, one that uncovers the repleteness of units and their interobjectivity. It is an aesthetic set theory, in which a particular configuration is celebrated merely on the basis of its existence.

Lists remind us that no matter how fluidly a system may operate, its members nevertheless remain utterly isolated, mutual aliens. Lists do not just rebuff the connecting powers of language but rebuff the connecting powers of being itself.

visual ontographs:

The specificity of objects well up when situations are concretized and enumerated.

Taking things already gathered and explodes them into their tiny, separate, but contiguous universe.

exploded views :

The exploded-view drawing is meant to clarify some complex physical system for the benefit of a human constructor, operator, or designer.

An anonymous, unseen situation of things is presented in a way that effectively draws our attention to its configurative nature. An ontograph records the presence of many potential unit operations, a profusion of particular perspectives on a particular set of things.

Photos From the Excursion:

  

 

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