Sept 8, 10 — Slicing the strawberry...

When I first started teaching design, I started by sharing the genre of “Concrete Poetry”...

Concrete Poetry insists that the verbal cannot be separated from its material representation and vice versa.

For example, the poem Karawane can be both looked at and read aloud... and its visual form affects its verbal performance...

Being able to understand something from different senses and ways of being — reminds me of this idea:

“The finer I slice the strawberries, the more surfaces there are; the more surfaces there are, the more it tastes.”

— Christopher Alexander, A Timeless Way of Building

Continued in class...

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