- At some point this week, look around you and produce a drawing (or take a picture) of a space that you feel is rich in arrangements. In a style similar to the diagram on page 33, annotate your picture or drawing with the “hard” and “soft” arrangements you can identify.
- Map an aspect of your topic to the Ideas/Arrangements/Effects framework. For instance, if you were working with zoos: an idea is that animals should be able to be observed at will by humans; an arrangement is a cage at the zoo; an effect is that animals often become distressed. Since arrangements are “a rich and frequently overlooked terrain for creating change” (32): can you identify a way you could change your identified arrangement, and how that might reflect a different idea, or have a different effect?
Idea: The idea of my project is to let more people understand and feel the wisdom of Buddhism by looking at the Buddhist figures.
Arrangements: The arrangement could be the conservative presentation of Buddhist art form. Also, the ways of c’s spread did not change a lot since hundreds year ago. People go to the temple, read related books and listening to master’s explanation in order to learn the philosophical concept of buddhism.
Effects: 1. People feel boring about buddhism. 2. The arrangements make buddhism’s notions be hard to be understand. 3. Younger people are refused to know buddhist concept. 4. It may mislead people that buddhism is a religion which has strict rules and hard for people to learn.
For the different arrangements, I will merge traditional Buddhist figures with modern and fashion elements so that it will be easier to accept by younger generation. I manifest different forms of Buddhist figures, which is also a way of attracting young people. Besides, for the guide I made, I might have an arrangement that users are able to DIY their one Buddhist figures, which means that the figures will not be fixed and they can have infinite possibility. It is also one of the notion from buddhism that the figure of Buddha are changeable.