Emergent Strategies
Do you find any of these principles more difficult to achieve than others in your own creative practice? How?
The principle that “there is always enough time for the right work” is difficult for me to remember most of the time. I tend to never feel like I have enough time to complete any work, and sometimes this feeling prevents me from getting started at all.
“A mushroom is a toxin-transformer, a dandelion is a community of healers waiting to spread…”. In your view, what is the function of humans in the universe?
I think that the function of humans is mostly to keep each other in balance. Today, hundreds of thousands of jobs exist solely to address issues that have come into existence because of humans. For example, jobs in environmental protection wouldn’t exist without the past centuries of humans working with no regard for the environment.
brown identifies a list of patterns that “start small and then become movement wide” — burn out, splitting, stagnation, etc. What is a negative pattern that you see in a small way that reverberates outward? Can you attempt to disrupt it?
After online school during the pandemic, I noticed that apathy was becoming more predominant in the classroom. Prior to 2020, the classroom seemed to be a more lively place. After 2020, I think that many students got used to their low-effort means of getting by in online school, resulting in apathy in classrooms. This reverberates outward because the classroom is a place where people should be learning how to communicate, so stunted communication in the classroom would extend beyond the classroom into students’ social lives.
Initial questions and curiosities you have about your assigned topic.
I’m mostly just curious about the actual process of how bridges are designed. It seems like one of the highest-pressure forms of engineering since so many hundreds of lives and elements of infrastructure are dependent on sturdy bridges.
How did you start researching? What did you research or find? What are you interested in researching further?
I started researching just by doing a deep dive on Wikipedia. I researched a bunch of extremes (longest bridge, highest bridge, etc).
I’d also be interested in researching the lore about some older bridges in Europe.
How might you ‘play’ with your topic?
The most obvious way would be to look at other meanings of “bridge,” like in figurative sayings such as “bridge the gap”
I’m also thinking about other ways that bridges could be documented in terms of length, height, or function.
It could be interesting to compare areas at the opposite ends of bridges; some bridges might link an area with a lot of people to an area with barely anyone, or some might link groups with a distinctly different cultural norm.
