It looked like less than five people from our studio pinned up diagrams for today's group lecture. Is that possible? I was tempted to post a diagram about slackers on the blog tonight. Can you guess what it might have looked like?
I think, according to Kathrine, those aren't actually considered diagrams, but are "cartoons." Which i don't really agree with. Maureen and I looked up the definition of a diagram, which was something to the effect of a "drawing, sketch, explanation, etc..."
While they may have been looking for more abstract and perhaps aesthetically pleasing versions of diagrams, i don't think things like storyboards can be discounted. Just my opinion.
I thought Wednesday's lecture was confusing. I think there are many types of diagrams, and it wasn't clear if we were searching for an understanding of all diagrams or one type of diagram in particular. I would be curious to see if you can generate an opportunity for discovery across the foundations program about diagrams. Are you tuned in? Do you care to understand more? Can you, amongst yourselves and first year students you recruit from other labs, create a mind map of the concepts that surround the topic of diagrams? Can you use the skills of diagramming for discovery that we have talked about in class to lead a meaningful dialogue between your peers? I dare you to organize a cross-section of students to exhibit a well-constructed, thoughtful, accurate, and aesthetically pleasing large scale diagram of diagrams to present the breadth of your knowledge, the depth of your inquiry, and your remaining questions back to the foundations faculty at an appropriate time. Not because I asked you to, but because you are tuned into your own passion for design.
Just going back to the lecture.One of the professors that added a commentsaying that diagrams should be should show beauty, which I took as aesthectic beauty. I'm going to have to disagree. In Brian Katen's class, Understanding and Representing Landscape, we were giving a reading by James Corner about the 3 types of drawing for Architecture; Representation, Notation, and projection of drawings. I agreed with Sal when he drew a diagram of our conversation, and used an equation of different variables to "represent" eachother. In Jame's Corners argument, he says that representation is greater than drawings. Art and drawing, and representation are 2 different things in this sense. Drawing/art puts more emphasis on the drawing, and the actually aesthetic value of the drawing. Representation puts emphassis on the actual intent of the drawing. I think that's what the one professor that was talking about how a diagram should capture the actual essence of what it's diagraming rather than just projecting what is being diagrammed so that it can be applied to many different things alike. So does a diagram has to beautiful, no, not in my opinion. It should be more focused on the what's happening rather than what is being displayed, so that it can be applied to multipul things. For examplt the line, that represented a journy of life. It was just a line on a piece of paper. So to one person it could be the journey of life and it's upsand downs, but to another it can be maybe the experience of a movie. Something to think about.
It looked like less than five people from our studio pinned up diagrams for today's group lecture. Is that possible? I was tempted to post a diagram about slackers on the blog tonight. Can you guess what it might have looked like?
ReplyDeleteI think, according to Kathrine, those aren't actually considered diagrams, but are "cartoons." Which i don't really agree with. Maureen and I looked up the definition of a diagram, which was something to the effect of a "drawing, sketch, explanation, etc..."
DeleteWhile they may have been looking for more abstract and perhaps aesthetically pleasing versions of diagrams, i don't think things like storyboards can be discounted. Just my opinion.
I thought Wednesday's lecture was confusing. I think there are many types of diagrams, and it wasn't clear if we were searching for an understanding of all diagrams or one type of diagram in particular. I would be curious to see if you can generate an opportunity for discovery across the foundations program about diagrams. Are you tuned in? Do you care to understand more? Can you, amongst yourselves and first year students you recruit from other labs, create a mind map of the concepts that surround the topic of diagrams? Can you use the skills of diagramming for discovery that we have talked about in class to lead a meaningful dialogue between your peers? I dare you to organize a cross-section of students to exhibit a well-constructed, thoughtful, accurate, and aesthetically pleasing large scale diagram of diagrams to present the breadth of your knowledge, the depth of your inquiry, and your remaining questions back to the foundations faculty at an appropriate time. Not because I asked you to, but because you are tuned into your own passion for design.
ReplyDeleteJust going back to the lecture.One of the professors that added a commentsaying that diagrams should be should show beauty, which I took as aesthectic beauty. I'm going to have to disagree. In Brian Katen's class, Understanding and Representing Landscape, we were giving a reading by James Corner about the 3 types of drawing for Architecture; Representation, Notation, and projection of drawings. I agreed with Sal when he drew a diagram of our conversation, and used an equation of different variables to "represent" eachother. In Jame's Corners argument, he says that representation is greater than drawings. Art and drawing, and representation are 2 different things in this sense. Drawing/art puts more emphasis on the drawing, and the actually aesthetic value of the drawing. Representation puts emphassis on the actual intent of the drawing. I think that's what the one professor that was talking about how a diagram should capture the actual essence of what it's diagraming rather than just projecting what is being diagrammed so that it can be applied to many different things alike. So does a diagram has to beautiful, no, not in my opinion. It should be more focused on the what's happening rather than what is being displayed, so that it can be applied to multipul things. For examplt the line, that represented a journy of life. It was just a line on a piece of paper. So to one person it could be the journey of life and it's upsand downs, but to another it can be maybe the experience of a movie. Something to think about.
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