Corné made a photograph of our mindmap:
Yes.. the questions and other parts are upside-down. A work in progress.
I personally like the Me part of this. The similarities between Me and calligraphy are interesting. They both have found a solution for getting the word to the people. Calligraphy can't use any images and uses a kind of letters to tell the word to the people. In the period before language Me tried the same via other media like music and maybe thought? For me with my Western background in writing it is as hard to grasp calligraphy as it is to grasp Me.
The day started with some introduction about brainstorming (very very short) and mindmapping (less short). The teachers got 10 minutes from us. :) We also started on our mindmap today, need to finish it tomorrow morning as we needed to catch a boat very quickly. We will post some pictures tomorrow.
As "Cornie vèn Delft" (English pronunciation) wrote it is good to have more questions than you had before.. but it still feels strange. Today we went to a museum about calligraphy (with the cool -as in cold- boat). The museum had very nice .. paintings? of calligraphy. Well yeah, a little side-step here, but how would you call this? Calligraphy is text, it is not an image. But how do you call it when they put text, which looks like an image, behind glass in a museum? I think I'll just use "calligraphy" then.
So, the museum had some nice calligraphy. And immediately you start to analyse it. Why does these calligraphics have flowers which the others have not? (They seem to be from a later period in which the sultans needed to impress the people and say that everything went ok when it didn't). Why do the lines go up when they reach the end of a line? Is one sura with flowers really a different one then the one without? (You can write a whole post about sura's, which would be very interesting, so maybe I will some day). Do the stripes below the letters really have meaning or are these for decoration? (You should be carefull saying that parts of calligraphy are just decoration :)).
On the boat back I was talking with some students from Austria (Graz) about the study Interaction Design. I had the strange fealing of being with other people and for the first time not having to explain what Interaction Design is. As normaly when I'm with others I can spend hours talking about what I do. But I was wrong. The different Interaction Design studies don't have the same subjects. For example we have more tech subjects and they have choices like exhibition design which sound very nice.
By the way, the language here in Turkey is funny as they have a lot of words written phoneticly. Like taksi (taxi) and oto (car which is auto in Dutch).
Below me and Georg, another student from Graz :)
