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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.

Metaphors We Live By Response

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Lakoff + Johnson give several examples throughout the text of linguistic metaphorical systems. Are there any you found odd, outdated, or different from metaphorical systems that you use, either personally or in your language, culture, or social sphere? For instance, do you speak about conversation as a battle, or use orientational metaphors the same way the authors describe?

From my personal experience, there are many metaphorical in my culture. And Chinese poems are just perfectly made metaphorical in the most extreme way.  Now is autumn, it reminds me of one of the poems from Shi Su, there is one sentence is:一年好景君须记，最是橙黄橘绿时间。（explanation is: the best time for the whole year you have to remember, the best time is about having the yellow-orange, and orange color tangerines.) the author use the color to metaphor the season which is Autumn. it makes people have more impression about this poem. I think this is also the function why does metaphorically being excited.

Can you identify a metaphorical system that you commonly use? What do you think is the motivating rationale (“experiential basis”) behind that system – or is there one? Have you ever intentionally (or unintentionally) changed the metaphorical system that you use to speak about a certain subject, to reflect a different experience or worldview

A metaphorical system that I usually use are orientational metaphors. For instance, I used to describe no more shopping, I usually like to day cut off my hands. When I speak in these metaphors, I envision my life and behavior to display in one picture, what truly delivery my ambition of “no more shopping”, it bring out my emotional status. Furthermore to use cut off hand refer to quit of shopaholic is very common in China.

What metaphors/systems of metaphor are commonly used when discussing your topic? If “the essence of a metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another” (5), what other kinds of metaphors might be useful for discussing your topic, or an aspect of your topicFor?

For my topic, I used “symbiotic bacteria”, metaphors refer to Migratory birds. because, symbiotic bacteria can survive as the same time with people, both of symbiotic bacteria and human being are act well. I just want t show people migratory birds can survive as symbiotic bacteria, can work smooth with the whole society.

Guide progress/draft – Bark

For my Assignment #1 guide, I will be creating a mock pharmacy medication bottle and information sheet that will contain actual cinnamon sticks.

The goal of the guide is to inform the audience of cinnamon’s history, its use in herbal medicine including its pros and cons, and the ethics around its production. This guide should be easily understood by a general audience. Using a pharmacy bottle is a metaphor for how cinnamon is not usually considered as an ingredient of pharmaceuticals in the western world, even though it has a long history of being used in herbal medicine. It brings up the argument of whether or not herbal medicine should be considered as a legitimate form of medication in the western world. The tone of this guide is to be satirical and parodic.

I have started by creating a mock pharmacy label:

This will be the container that will be displayed in the presentation:

Emergent Strategy

Question I: In your view, what is a function of humans in the universe?

I think function of human is create, product and contempt, we create tools, we found out whatever we could use for our own benefits. we create civilizations, make sure we could probably do generation to generation. we product a lot tools, or other creature to meet our all kinds of needs. we also contempt all kind of element we possible could use. That why I will say for human humans in the universe is create, product, and contempt.

Question II: Do artists, designers, and technology have that same or similar responsibility? What are the nuances between those roles?

In my opinion those three roles are similar, however based on their function somehow they are very different.

the same or similar responsibility is they all create things, but for each job description, each of them have some different. In my mind  the artist has the pure mind, they just need to emotional, and intense to feel the whole world, and directly translate the further words into the language that we used to know. Artist always have future vision to look at everything. The technology is another pure role in those three roles. technology just need to focus on how to make design into a real thing and also functional. The last I want to talk about is the most hard role out of those three. It is designer, it is a bridge from artist to technology. designer need to balance the artist elements, and buyer’s needs, also make sure the idea can possible happen in technology.

 

Topic 1 Interview: Bark

I interviewed an employee of Anima Mundi Apothecary in Brooklyn, NY. Sophia is a clinical herbalist who has studied at an herbalism school for three years.

Q: Can you tell us about yourself? How and when did you come to start working here?

A: From a young age, I was exposed to holistic healing from my mother. In my 20s, I dealt with a lot of digestive and hormonal issues and tried conventional medications and skincare but none of them worked. That’s when I started healing myself using herbs and I became passionate about helping others with the same method. I ended up going to herbalism school for three years and have been working at Anima Mundi Apothecary for the last year.

Q: What is the mission of this store? Who is the target consumer?

A: We were founded in 2013 by a Costa Rican herbalist, Adriana Ayales, who was passionate about bringing herbal medicine in New York City and having people reconnect with nature. She developed formulas that would help a general audience, but also created spaces for people who need more customized support as well. The shop’s name, “Amina Mundi,” actually means “one world” or “one soul” and represents the connectedness between us and nature. The goal is to combine traditional medicine with the modern world.

Q: In your opinion, what is the difference between herbal medicine and pharmaceutical medicine? What would you say herbal medicine is better?

A: The major difference with pharmaceutical medicine are the side effects that occur when used. For instance, taking medication for diabetes can often times raise your blood pressure. It can be really hard on the liver and kidneys, and people don’t realize that, and in a lot of cases, we’re overmedicating people. Herbs have been used for medicinal use since ancient times, and you can often take something that ends up benefiting another part of your body. Herbalism allows people to take back the power and knowledge of their medicine.

Q: What do you think is the popular opinion about herbal medicine, especially here in the US? Is it controversial?

A: I think nowadays people is more open to herbalism. People have said we are currently in a “wellness renaissance”. Back in the 80s, there was a shutdown of herbal medicine, but in the last 5-10 years there has been a resurgence. I think the big issue currently is the spreading of false information, especially though social media. It’s important that people go to school and learn through hours of clinical work.

Q: What kind of clinical work and training was taught at your herbalist school?

A: I attended ArborVitae School of Traditional Herbalism, which was taught by an herbalist who was previously a M.D., and learned about anatomy and physiology, different kinds of medicines from all cultures, bodily systems, etc.

Q: Do you think that herbal medicine is gaining popularity in America? Especially with the younger generation?

A: Yes, I do think it’s gaining popularity with the younger generation, who tend to be more open-minded. I think in the 90s and 2000s there was an extremely toxic culture around dieting and undernourishing ourselves in order to be considered beautiful. We are learning from those mistakes and as our society is becoming more progressive and advanced, people are coming back to holistic practices.

Q: Are you aware of any sustainability/ethical issues with producing herbal medicine?

A: Absolutely. When anything becomes popular, it’s important to be aware of the ethics around it. When growing and harvesting herbs, it’s important to be organic or ethically wildcrafted. Wildcrafting means a specialist will collect herbs that are in abundance in an area, and organic means that they are grown without chemicals or additives. There are certain herbs that are endangered, specifically the slippery elm tree. It’s known for healing gastrointestinal issues, but was being overly wildcrafted. A lot of herbalists are now working to grow their own slippery elm.

Interview Topic One

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I interviewed one of my high school classmates who is working in the airport as a “bird killer”. He is working in this position since the airport was established. When I wanna start my interview post he is the first person who pops into my mind.

Based on your experience How many will be killed by you per day?

Come on! I am not a real killer, ok? I don’t kill birds.Kill birds cannot make air-plane safe. we currently using different technology  now.

So, what is the standard that can make sure air-plane can get safe departure or landing process. 

Based on Chinese air regulations. have to make sure, (airport as the center) make sure within radium 3 km have no birds. when air plane take off about 100 meter height, when air plane during landing about 60 meter height from the ground is the most dangerous situation to get birds accidents.

What are the main strategies we are using right now?

Currently Biological control technology is the main method, any others like sound, or visual methods  just always stand by as plan B for us. but now people and goverment considering harms birds and environment system, so

Why can’t have birds around airport?

Because of the safety. every year there is over 10,000 cases air accident in the planet, about 20% are made by birds. Ok! like make a quick demonstration for you, if unfortunately the plane and the bird hit up when them flying on their regular routes. From the point of view of physics, if a bird weighing 500 grams hit with an aircraft with a speed of 370 kilometers/ H, it will produce an impact force of 3 tons. Such a huge impact force may cause serious safety problems, and the aircraft will inevitably be damaged. Big mess.

Are you feel guilty when you have to kill birds. 

Yes, of course, but this is my duty, also I can give up over hundred life to save a bird.

 

 

Topic 1 Interview

I asked a friend who is fascinated by astronomy, and he is an amateur in space and satellites.

Q: What do you think about the concept of satellite?

A: A satellite is something that orbits, or goes around, a planet or a star, and there are lots of different types. Some natural things are satellites – like the Moon, because it goes around the Earth, but usually, when people talk about satellites they mean the ones that were made by people. They’re sort of like spaceships moving around the Earth, and they’re usually made up of a computer, along with solar panels to get power from the Sun. Sometimes they also have cameras or other scientific tools to help gather information.

Q: What is the situation in space right now?

A: Junkyard…We’ve launched rockets and spacecraft into Earth’s orbit, but now thousands of objects from tiny screws and bolts, to dead satellites encircle the Earth. Transforming the space above us into a junkyard.

Q: What is space junk?

A: any man-made object in orbit around the Earth that no longer serves a useful function

Q: What is the damage of space junk?

A: It directly threatens people in space like ISS(International Space Station), which is in the crosshairs. ISS has already been hit by little bits of debris on a number of occasions and there are no guarantees that other substantial things might not hit it again in the future.

Q: What do you think about the future space environment?

A: Getting worse I guess? You know SpaceX plan to launch 12,000 satellites in space, but we already have 6,000 satellites in space right now and it has already been a junkyard, I think it will become more severe in the future.

According to the interview, I’ve learned lots of space environment problems and also concerned about our future. It’s a good direction to develop my satellite guide.

Assignment 1 – Guide Process

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This week, I did two things for the Guide. Firstly, I tried to see how to make a mini-booklet by using an A4 paper. And at the same time, I draft the contents and thought about how to distribute them properly .

1. A mock-up for ideation

 

2. Draft the contents of the Guide

    • Cover
    • What is Coat of Arms (P1)
    • It is from… (P2)
    • Its components are:  (P3&P4)
    • Bonus Info (P5)
    • Do you want to design one for yourself? How? (P6)
    • Back Cover: Design you Own One > Open

quilting guide progress

Guide draft:

I planed to make a game that player controls a character who need to gather leftover cloths and stitch them together. It would be a 2d top down game. Along with player collects more materials, the game image’s filter will turn from dark to bright, which indicates a mindset’s transformation. Also, the game’s flow shows the process of a patchwork’s sewing. 

Some game concepts image below: 

1: at the beginning, there are not too many materials been collected

2: some materials have been collected

3: all materials are collected