Homework: Exploring the Line

Your homework this week includes the following:

1. Explore the ENTIRE line.

2. Observe what is there.

3. Document what you find.

LET'S GO!

EXPLORE:

Your subject is the ENTIRE line,  this means that you will need to spend time in that space.  While you may decide that some parts of The Line are more interesting to you than others, you will need to cover the whole line multiple times to really observe what is there. Remember that the line is a space not a plane.  Look up, look under, look around….

Keep in mind: Respect your surroundings and community. When exploring the forest area, please do not go alone, do not go near dusk, and please take some water!

OBSERVE:

As we discussed in class the key to this activity is to employ a variety of perspectives, tasks, and tools, so as to find an aray of information. You should employ 6-8 different structures for exploration, these could be explorations from your book or others that you design yourself.  Consider how you find the unexpected, how you create an experience that allows you to observe differently than you normally would. By the end of the week you should know the Line, backwards and forward.  You should be able to recognize it like your hometown.

Other things to consider:

• Time:  time of day,  duration, history, etc.
• Speed: of travel, of looking
• Use of tools
• Direction: where are you looking, where are you headed?
• Senses:  use all five
• Significance
• Experience:  be reflective, consider what it is like to be doing hat you are doing.
• Question: some observations may need more investigation.

Be aware of your perspective, change your perspective, and be thorough…

DOCUMENT:

You should consider a variety of ways to document you experience.  What information is necessary to tell your audience about what you did, what do you want your audience to know?  You  may use and means available to you (i.e. photograph, draw, pick-up objects, record sound, record video, write, etc., etc., etc.), and remember that there is equipment available for you to check out.

You want to amass a vast amount  of information.  At minimum the amount of information on your blog should double.  Likewise you want to document more information than you post to your blog, you should have enough information that you can edit, make choices, and pick the most interesting things to share.  To think of it another way,  you should be spending a minimum of 10 hours outside of class on your exploration and observation,  your documentation should reflect that investment of time.

In addition, please bring ALL of the information and images that you collected to class on Thursday.