FROM NOTHINGNESS TO PLACE
Booklet
Nelke Sommerdijk
personal journey
ARCHITECTURE 101 IVERSITY PART 1 - 2015
WEEK 1 taking pictures
#RelativeSizeOfThings
When things have no name, they don't exist...
#50000 Years Ago #Things With No Name
My downloads disappeared
#Tv Without Signal #Music Without sound
colleagues on the net
PLEASEEEEEEEEEEE
WEEK 2 learning to sketch
#Some People They Know Things
#Question Without Answer
#Doors Of Perception
It is very important to learn how to put the logical part of our brain asleep. &
Tibetan monks spend days making beautiful sand mandalas, and then they destroy what they did. The poet doesn’t invent. He listens. (Jean Cocteau)
Ms Ono says: ...but this is like a life situation, where you have to play it by convincing each other.
#PlayItByTrust #DaytimeNighttime
The mind is everything. What you think you become. (Buddha)
Why do we do this? To become magicians.
What is the sound of one hand clapping?
WEEK 3 making collages
#RomanceInManyDimensions
What will I learn? To use abstraction to represent feelings, emotions and personality. As Ray Bradbury would say: You’ve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.
#InsideNoOutside
#WhatMakesTheDesert
"Stealing things is a glorious occupation, particularly in the art world." (Malcolm McLaren)
#StealingThingsIs
#BrianEnoSays
WEEK 4 observing the weather
#ExcuseMeWhile
#MySunMachine
#SomePeopleWalk
Women hold up half the sky. Mao Zedong
Ready for one more week in “suspension” between nothingness and place? Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome. Isaac Asimov
#MyBusiness
Why do we do this? To become aware of the fundamental distinction between day and night. Because moonlight is still sunlight. And also because moonlight is as important as sunlight. Some places appear at night. Others only during daytime. Most of them get transformed in-between.
Buddha tells us: "Three things
cannot be long hidden: the sun,
the moon, and the truth."
#VoyageDansLaLune
Because when we look at the Sun, we squint. We squint exactly the same way as people on Earth were doing 10.000 years ago. We don’t do many things the same way people did in those days.
Finally, the first Space Art object:
the Moon Museum.
WEEK 5 shaping diagrams ready steady go I am sleepy salty brain
#YourMindWill
help water
#YouGottaHave
We understand “place” with our mind, but we feel it with our “body”.
#OnesDestination
#YouStartToThink
"One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things." (Henry Miller)
#BeSureYou
WEEK 6 drawing maps
#ALineIsADot
This week, it will be all about maps. Maps of your place. Transforming your place into a special map. Remember: we tend to think that because there is the world, we have maps. Actually it is the other way around: because we have maps, we have the world.
#HumanBehaviourFlows #YouCantCriticize
Plato said: Human behaviour flows from three main sources: desire, emotion and knowledge.
#NoManIs
What will I learn? To work with metaphors. To use symbols and concepts in order to shape a message.
#ThisWorldIs
Powerpoint, Photoshop, Framelapse, Instagram, Piccollage, Kaleidoo, Picsartkaleidoscope, Smartdraw, Android, Dell
Architecture 101 - Part I
contact: nelkecanoa@gmail.com This booklet was fun. Credits for the Iversity team, colleagues and all the apps.