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October 2022

Guide_The benifit of Yoga_Jun

Research

At the beginning, I didn’t know anything about yoga, or even about any relationship between yoga and religion. Then with my preliminary investigation, I found that yoga is actually a very, very broad discipline, involving religion, fitness, communication and other aspects. I interviewed yoga enthusiasts, philosophy students and ordinary people. Their understanding and views on yoga are quite different.

Finally, I combined their views and searched a large number of papers on the Internet, and obtained my own critical topic：​Different stakeholders and groups will have their own interpretation and development in using yoga as a tool, but it will not alter the original intention of yoga, which is integrating body and spirit to achieve a state of peace and relaxation.

 

I found that there are many, many different stakeholders, and the following are the obvious ones:

Hinduism: Because yoga can teach us to control our own desires to keep us in a peaceful state, many religions like Hinduism use yoga to preach.

Health (both mental and physical): Yoga can correct posture and promote exercisers’ cardiopulmonary function. And meditation can make people jump out of the stressful life and troubles

Business: The global spread of yoga has brought new opportunities to various industries (clothing, books, videos, equipment factories, holidays, classes), just like a huge golden stomach bag with hundreds of billions

Diplomacy: Unlike other religions, yoga is not exclusive.  The characteristics of self-cultivation and all-embracing are very suitable for India government to build diplomatic friendship.

In fact, there are many others. For example, yoga is also widely used in the education of primary and secondary schools, and yoga also has some help for sexual function. However, because of the religious background of yoga itself, yoga education is still controversial, and the help for sexual function also needs to be further demonstrated by medical science. Therefore, this research will not be carried out from these two aspects.

Progress

For the form, I want to make a popular science brochure. The audience and application scenarios may be distributed as promotional materials in similar international yoga days, so that more people who know nothing about yoga or have misunderstandings about yoga can have a better knowledge of yoga.

As for metaphor, I thought we should use something that is easy to understand and everyone knows, so I finally chose blood. Yoga is like blood. It carries innumerable nutrients (peace, meditation, self-discipline, inclusive spiritual culture),

and delivers these nutrients to different organs (stakeholders, governments, religions and organizations). These organs use these nutrients to play their own different functions and thrive in various fields.

Bibliography

Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoga

Michelle Star  Yoga Part 1&2 : mind and body  https://bobcat.library.nyu.edu/permalink/f/ci13eu/nyu_aleph004891011

程醉.瑜伽服装：小众产品逆袭带来的千亿产业蛋糕[J].中国纤检,2022,No.558(03):102-103.DOI:10.14162/j.cnki.11-4772/t.2022.03.019.

李林臻,马博威.健身瑜伽的现代价值研究[J].健与美,2022,No.395(03):98-99.

于欣力,蔡春阳.印度哲学视域下瑜伽思想的渊源、发展及其价值[J].国外社会科学前沿,2022,No.506(07):29-46.

田克萍.从宗教修行到身体技术——论瑜伽文化的变迁[J].广东外语外贸大学学报,2019,30(02):132-137.

Salt: guide progress – draft

The guide now is a storytelling map about salt in China history.

 

Next I’ll add more pages and raise questions about the fiscal policy behind salt.

Assignment 1 – Final

 

  • The Guide of “Code” of Arms 

         Form: Mini booklet

Video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mJVadXe3L6a8D9OKwgDuJe8vmkuuGQa9/view?usp=sharing

  • Intentions for the Guide

As an entry level guide, it is for people who don’t know about Coat of Arms, but have interest in it. It starts with the question of Coat of Arms or “Code” of Arms to intrigue readers’ interest to keep exploring. Then it introduces the origin, history and components of Coat of Arms.

After that, the guide also introduces another type of Coat of Arms in Asia – Mon in Japan, and set up a “Bonus Why” question to deep dive the topic – what is the system was Coat of Arms based on? 

At last, the guide gives a brief about how to make your own one – a simple version with contemporary icons.

Another fun part of this guide is that you can open it, and on the other side of the paper there is a step-by-step guidance for making a Code of Arms.

  • Research

Firstly, I googled online to start my initial research, which gave me a general idea what is Coat of Arms. At the 2nd week, I created a concept mapping to help sort out the relationship of concepts of my research topic, then I better understood the concepts and scope of my final deliverables.

To get a better idea about how to design an emblem, I interviewed a professional designer and illustrator, which was helpful for me to find out an approachable way for designing the emblem. (https://itp.nyu.edu/lowres/critex-monika/2022/09/26/topic-1-interviews-code-of-arms/)

I got some problem in figuring out a metaphor for my topic. Thanks to instructor’s guide, finally we found that “Code” is a good metaphor. On one side, Coat of Arms itself is a kind of code.On the other side, with the development of society, Coat of Arms has been evolved and can be in a contemporary design.

  • Bibliography

https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/members-area/kids/kids-rule-things-to-make-and-do/design-your-own-coat-of-arms/

https://www.britannica.com/topic/coat-of-arms

Design Your Own Coat of Arms: An Introduction to Heraldry

The Mon – Japanese Coats of Arms – Pro Heraldica (pro-heraldica.de)

System Thinking

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Which system (type of stakeholder) that Easterbrook identified did you find your understanding of GMOs most aligned with? Why? What are some of the stakes for these stakeholders?

A system of ecosystems and contaminants that weaken them.

I think the topic is exactly the thing that suits my topic. Human beings only focus on their development, and sacrifice thing, which is innocent, and are not harmful to human beings. sometimes human beings realized they have crossed the line, they made mistakes. however, they didn’t call back the mistake, because a call back will cost money, and will take part of the advantages from some of the stakeholders. or in my opinion, that is not enough.

Can you Identify 3 stakeholders (groups or phenomena) with different perspectives, and then describe the system (the stakes) from which they are operating?

1, Bird killers: they do their job, killing birds or getting away from birds is in their job description. They get paid on birds. if there are no birds, that means the position of them will have no excuses for being excited.

2, The traveler who takes the airplane from the airport. make the airport a center, within 15km is birds’ hell. So traveler travel based on birds sacrifice. because of human beings’ freedom, have to make an area to avoid birds.

3, The last one I think is the manager of the Airport, everyone knows, if an airplane crash happens, the GM of the airport will be the first person who is going to take responsibility for this case. make sure to avoid personal career crushes, I think they can count as one stakeholder.

 

Plantation guide progress – draft

For the guide, I’m making an interactive map showing the world trading of plantation products, I’m using coffee as my first plantation product for demonstration.

I first did a research on the data of coffee production and world market trading. I found the data on the website of United States Department of Agriculture Foreign Agricultural Service. Here is the link to the website. https://www.fas.usda.gov/data/coffee-world-markets-and-trade

Here is a draft of the interactive map I made:

I used the mapbox api to draw the world map on the webpage. I extracted production data and trading data to make my own database. On this draft there are many circles with different sizes. The sizes of the circles represent the amount of production of coffee bean in that country.

For further development, I will make all these circles interactive. Users would be able to click on the circles, and more data showing local plantation situations will pop up. I will also try to add connection between each countries to show the trading process.

Project Progress: Borders | Canals

The metaphor I am exploring is “Go with the Flow”

The idea of separation and connection is the idea I wanted to hone in on. I think it is interesting that the natural element of water has a job bestowed upon it by humans since canals are man-made. So depending on its location, the water acts as a connector, separator, transporter, or protector. It goes with the flow. Using that lens, I will be leveraging the inspiration from the Wildsam field guides I had noted in an earlier post to break up the information. Initially, I wanted to make a webpage with an animation in the background of a winding river, but that is proving to be a bigger endeavor that I may need to scrap due to complexity and time constraints. I have the concept – it is just the creative execution I will need to catch up on in time for Tuesday’s class.

 

Experimental Making – Canals

Following a p5 tutorial on Perlin Flow, I explored the metaphor of “Go with the Flow”

https://editor.p5js.org/npadilla688/full/V–cftYVB

Form Analysis – Salt

The guide form I chose for this topic is an interactive map (page).

Examples:

https://demos.mapbox.com/scrollytelling/

https://theirc.github.io/watchlist2021/

 

Why this form? What are its features (stylistic, experiential)

  • For my theme Border, a map suits it best. This map divides content into many sections, providing space to organize the topic’s points. Moreover, the map itself is like background and is not interactive. It makes the web page look like a magazine page. So users should focus on the content provided by the author instead of exploring the map to unexpected places.

How is this form typically used, and what do you plan to subvert/imitate/utilize?

  • This map is often used to tell stories in a geographic context. The press adopts the form covering population’s demographics, the environment, an international conflict, etc.
  • I would add buttons in the text area to allow users to jump between sections.

What would change if you tried a different form? What critical lens does the form you’re applying emphasize? 

  • If I tried a static map, I had to organize all content on the same page, which requires more typography skills.
  • It provides a lens of countries or regions. It’s an up-to-down angle if we talk about specific things. For example, how do international relations affect people, and how does geography affect the government’s decisions.

Is there a metaphor well-suited to your form (i.e. cooking with code)?
Or, are there other metaphors you might employ?

  • A map is already a visual metaphor, for it is a guide itself. A metaphor suited to a map can be a map on which countries are topic items.
  • If we imagine areas as dishes, “season dishes” is like “power the country”. Thus I compare salt to power.
  • (From the dishes metaphor above, a quote comes to my mind: “Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish — Tao Te Ching” (治大国，若烹小鲜)

Guide Progress – Draft

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I had quite a hard time starting my topic, I thought it is an easy one, but after I had my first system map, I just don’t know what is the thing I want to deliver to audiences. but I found the same element, which are both happening in birds, and borders, and I link them up, and the airport is just the first picture that I have in mind, I interviewed my friend who is the “bird killer”. I did research on birds and the definition of the border.

So Birds and borders officially became my topic. I did the research so I am going to use the “Miami strange dead crocodile”, and “symbiotic bacterias” as my metaphors to boost my information as well.

 

 

Background sound reference:

https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/ceAd0cRIXT/

https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/6PTnRRK57s/

Research article support:

https://www.birdlife.org/migratory-birds/

the-basics-how-why-and-where-of-bird-migration

Airport no bird research:

https://www.quora.com/How-do-airports-ensure-that-there-are-no-birds-on-the-runway

https://www.cntraveler.com/story/how-airports-keep-birds-away

 

Form Analysis

Why this form? What are its features (stylistic, experiential)

I will show up use picture, and text definition as my form that just like the art piece display in gallery . I will make 3 pictures related to my topic. The first one have few birds fly in the empty gray sky that over a barren land. the second has vivid color, the symbolics bacteria  working well under a Microscope, the last one is many people standing on the green grass, and watch a lot of cute birds fly in blue sky. also for each pictures, will come with different type of music. or background sound.

How is this form typically used, and what do you plan to subvert/imitate/utilize

while I display the picture, and play the background sound, and a human voice going to delivery message.

What would change if you tried a different form? What critical lens does the form your applying emphasize? 

If I would change the other one, I will try to make animation to delivery, and the critical lense of me will emphasize on why people can survive with symbiotic bacterias.

Is there a metaphor well-suited to your form (i.e. cooking with code)? Or, are there other metaphors you might employ?

Yes. I will stay with symbiotic bacteria, but I will consider to have another one to make my topic even stronger.