Stories
The prime example of stories this week that we saw was the Midsummer Nights Dream movie by Shakespeare. This play has so many examples of stories there is a play with in a play. There are three main stories in this play Indian Child, Bottom, and the Dukes wedding. Also we studied Grimm's fairy tale's in studio where we learned to find the deeper meanings in the stories.
Artifacts
Artifacts we learned in our history and theory of design class are objects that shape our world. We also learned that artifacts can be assessed by a three step process (the power of three) these three steps are description, deduction, and speculation. In our studio class we talked about the flower that was hit by cupids arrow in Midsummer Nights Dream that was used to put a spell on the characters. Another artifact was bottoms crown. In Suzanne's class we had to draw five artifacts that were significant to our life.
Multiview
In a Midsummer Nights Dream the story can be viewed differently. Some people see the movie as a dream in that nothing is real and some people see it as reality. In my fairy tale the Frog King the frog can be viewed as just a frog or as a king. There are multiple views in this story. The princess views the frog as a hindrance but the frog views the princess as a help. Multi-view picture (statue man) http://www.jesterscc.netfirms.com/images/HumanStatueMan.jpg
Cycle
In Patrick's class we discussed the design cycle and how a persons design peak is in the middle of their life as a child your creativity is growing until you reach your peak in you 40's to 60's and then it goes down. In a midsummer nights dream there is a love cycle between the different lovers. The juice from the flower changed who the person loved causing the cycle. Cycle picture "Midsummer Nights Dream www.sidereel.com
Translation
In my history and theory of design class we talked about how things are perceived differently depending on your experiences in life you translate your environment based on what you know. An example that we used was comparing the bike shed and the cathedral in that the bike shed would be seen as simple and useful and the cathedral would be seen as intricate and well designed. We also saw translation in a midsummer nights dream in how different characters translated the events differently.
Translation picture (bike shed) www.talkingbirds.co.uk Translation picture (cathedral) www.visitingdc.com
Synopsis
Overall these prompts are similar. For example multi-view and translation are similar in a lot of ways. We learned a lot of things by looking into these words, on thing that I enjoyed was watching the midsummer movie it included most of all these words there was a lot of symbolism. The thing that stood out the most was the love cycle.
