_thinkMake Week-3:Active engagement in the space

I can divide this class into two stages. In the first half, our classmates Sina and Wendy described the story “Space is Always Political “ as they were given a task by our teacher. To be honest it was fruitful. The discussion opens up with a lot of different perspectives. I was able to differentiate between my thoughts and theirs fruitfully. Which helps me to a better understanding of the story. The conclusion they made was outstanding. After they’ve done describing it was all of us who shared our thoughts on the story. 


     I find this class interesting because I’ve done something that I never done before. Thanks to our teacher for creating such engaging content to build up and keep things going with our learning. More importantly, opens our minds to different perspectives to learn and grow. 


After the first half of our class, the reading describing, putting thoughts into perspective, and playing with words took place. 


In the later half of the class, we had an interesting session where we were asked to go outside and find a spot to sit and observe our surroundings for about 2 minutes and feel the surroundings with closed eyes for about 5 minutes. What made it different was in that specific 5 minutes we had to sketch something, anything that we could feel with closed eyes. The outcome I found is astonishing. In this “Blind drawing,” I tried to sketch everything that I could feel, hear, and sense. I sat in the courtyard of the Eldon building. Facing the cafe. I heard some students gossiping, and I could remember the cafe being busy with crowds, I was thinking about the sitting area outside the cafe, there were some trees in front of me and I sensed the fall of the leaf because of the strong winds, I could feel the lights from the sun, hearing sounds made by seagull, I was touched by some grass behind my back, I could sense a person carrying something with a trolley in front of me, I could smell coffee as someone was drinking it somewhere near to me. There was a bee that came out of nowhere and disturbed my thoughts by making sounds. I tried to draw everything I felt for that 5 minutes. 


And then we were asked for a second drawing on the actual view that we get from our spot. It was a pretty straightforward draw. I tried to draw the Eldon building, the cafe, some seating, a couple of trees, and the open sky with birds flying. I was drawing this in daylight. While I was doing it I was thinking about this same place on a moonlit night. I could sense it as a beautiful one. 



The third drawing I made was something that I was focusing on while sitting in that spot. I carried out 3 specific words in my mind to observe something and recreate it with pencils on paper. Reassertion, backdrop, and spatial turn are those words that I’ve worked on. To do it as a theme I found wind, dry leaves, and trees in front of me for my drawing. I closely observed how a strong wind can make those fallen leaves fly while making a cyclone. The outcome was blowing my mind. Spatial practices can be understood in terms of perception and representations of space in terms of conception. Which I casually tried to draw on the paper.


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