Just a slight side-step from my concentrated study for TITLE - but I’ve just been listening to this podcast by Radiolab, which is one of the most beautiful podcasts to listen to if you want to learn about most anything. I’m currently trawling through their back catalogue and I came across this one on words… It is so deeply moving and revealing about language.
If you have an hour and don’t know what to listen to I highly recommend this. As a voice coach words are something very close to my heart and how language develops in a truly fascinating process. This podcast captures some really stunning stories and now I am sharing them with you.
Enjoy!
My mind is starting to throw images at me in preparation for sketching some ideas for Mind Melting (I may post one or two…) - I’ve been having dreams about the lines of connection between me and other people; like threads that wrap us up together.
How many connections run between us?
This video is a way to express those connections in the ‘real’ world. Colourful and simple this augmented reality space allows you to see the connection between you and others.
For this project, I don’t think i’ll be using anything so high-tech, but I certainly am looking for ways to represent connections in physical space.
Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.
Subjective Perspectives are on my mind today. In communication, how can you reorientate your mind and try to listen to the other side…rather than leading the conversation YOUR way. What is a collaborative conversation?
“Yes, its probably best if we do it my way because I think this way is best (best for me).”
Conversation with someone is the give and take, my approach versus your approach, my perspective versus your perspective. I find myself increasingly listening to the method of approach and language my conversational partner is using and making a judgement call of whether or not my opinion should be voiced.
How long will it take me to explain myself?
Will it be worth it?
Or will it be easier for me to mould myself to their approach’s structure?
Its why I get nervous sharing my structures with other people, my approaches, because I am so keen to communicate truthfully and clearly that I worry how my work is being received. I wonder about other people’s languages and what they think of my work because of that.In writing this I have just realised that ultimately that it is useful, that I can never control it how it is perceived. I can only have control over how I hone my language an approach.
