User:Mania/Thesis outline

Questions

How tools shape what we see and what is a role of cataloging those fragments of reality and rearranging their order? What connections and patterns can become visible?

Explore how objects can be used to challenge our perception and expose overlooked aspects.

How using everyday materials (like paper) can be used to reveal hidden aspects of the city and create new forms of engagement with the city and challenge conventions?

How can a publishing practice allow multiple voices or perspectives to coexist celebrating unruliness?

How can publishing practices create networks of exchange, where publications are not just produced for consumption but become part of ongoing conversations and relationships?

How the element of surprise influence perception and understanding?

How meaning is constructed when traditional legibility or narrative is removed?

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A) What do you want to write about ? Think about what you want to exploreand how do you want to tell your story

pool of ideas:

- Why I want to read a city

- Places camera / tool takes you

- Changing assumptions throug observation or thanks to observation. Changing your understanding of a place. Surprices that are revealed thanks to observing

- Scripts vs non linear narrative (inspired by observational cinema - there is no objectyive truth)

- Participation

B) Outline 3 key issues you want to explore

1. Exploration of how we perceive our surroundings.

What it means to be an expert observer

2. What kind of city we accually want? Larning city - urban space as a space activating diffrent ways of knowing, learning and being together. City as a space for (un)learning practices.

3. Caring and participating through self publishing

Hierarchy and dominant norm - How knowledge production can be more horizontal? De-hierarchicalization of knowledge - cultural exchanges, more intuitive langueage, using text, images to present other narratives Collective creations

How it connects……..

One question and turn that into 3 sub topics:

How I can connect to the city by reading it with others?