Yeh Na Hanyehnahan.myblog.arts.ac.uk
Category: Unit 1
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WEEK 9: Expansion + Crunch
I am both
Language is part of the system
Not comparing but sounds different.
I am Korean but live in Turkey
It’s so interesting that I see no difference. -> Maybe I could go into that also?
Exploring and talking about identity is very powerful.
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Week 8: Formative Feedback (Video)
Week 8 feedback
Strength of the context, connectivity, and complexity.
System thinking and weakness.
System thinking is a relation of cause and effect
This is introducing and presenting me to those who don’t know me
Trying to understand why this place is special to Yeh Na -> unclear at the moment.
How is this telling us about Yeh Na? -> Needs to go deeper.
Such a fascinating history but not coming through, yet -> Need to pull this out and present on this.
Seems like more of a vlog than a presentation
What could I do to enhance the presentation? -> Add narration
Talk about how I perceive differently
Different culture and different mindset.
The view of the video seems not Korean (that could be filmed in Canada also)\
Show some map to show where you are.
The video seems physically ill -> must fix this
How I am going to bridge these two countries together.
Weakness
– understand the culture and context
– why this place were important for me.
– why i visited that place.
– why is it important to me.
– how is this telling about Yeh Na
Basic conversation that I was having connection (explained)
Turkish scenery(?) -> Me in the space
Intercultural visuals -> Turkish + Korea
A moment where I’m not moving.
Thinking about the viewer.
Ecosystem
What so interesting is my environment could be the system
Environment/landscape -? system itself.
Difference between Turkey and Korea
System 1 : Thinking is a near-instantaneous process; it happens automatically, intuitively, and with little effort.
It’s driven by instant and our experiences.
System 2 : Thinking is slower and requires more effort. It is conscious and logical.
My lived experience.
Encountering on the difference.
Both adaptation in context and remaining Korean.
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Week 7: Stories + Systems
I see you in your story, I see myself.
10 Keywords (from B is for Blogging)
- Context
- Complexity
- Environment
- Pedagogy
- Performance
- Practice
- Practitioner
- Process
- Reflection
- Site
- Synthesis
Research Through, With and as Through
We have to keep good records because it creates discipline around it which makes our lives. Good records are making good stories and around our stories, we are inspired by the amazing storytellers that we have.
How can we use this opportunity to hone our skills?
Beginning, I think to focus on these questions and showing their answers why? What? Who? Where, When? And then going back, this really big question of why. So there’s a lot of discussion around starting with why. Like if you know your why everything will follow from that. I’m not always sure that’s the best tack. I think sometimes when we do things for one reason, we actually recognise retrospectively that they have significance for something. (_by Marsha)
And this is how I thought about her opinion. I think it’s very productive and very instrumentalized. It is very important to be a storyteller especially when you want to impact in your history.
It is always important to store that your storytelling is relevant and the story you are telling is also relevant. I agree with Alia’s thought that this is actually telling the experience of perception of an experience to someone.
The heroes of our own story
How do we connect them?
By unique experiences to shared understanding.
Listening to hear or listening to respond.
This idea of connection, shared experiences, we can have unique experiences that that can be shared understanding perhaps. And I think maybe that’s where the storytelling is a very powerful tool because. You can hear someone’s story and then maybe related back to something that you have, you’ve experienced yourself and maybe an example I can share as I did a project where I got people to. Find a piece of cloth and textile that was meaningful to them. And then I asked them to go through a sort of sensory process of remembering. So their connection, you know, I’ve got them to feel and think and smell and can’t drop their story related to the text. And then they wrote about it and then shared. As we look through the stories, it was like a stories of humanity. So someone could have a very specific, unique story about their piece of cloth. (_Marsha)
This would be the resourcing experience.
I really like the title of Youtube “Homework for Life”. If you say, ‘homework’, it means something that must be done or something you have to do as a duty. When I was in high school years, ‘homework’ to me was something I did not want to do. It was because ‘homework’ was a duty that I ‘had’ to do and I really did not like it. Duty takes responsibility and if you say ‘homework for life’ it means you have a responsibility in your life. That means you should be living with a responsible attitude. A life could mean everyday life. And I asked myself, ‘How do you spend your day?’, and I couldn’t answer with confidence.
And I thought I should think differently. What if I change the duty to wanting. Don’t think the homework as a duty, but think as if you are willing to do it for your life. If you live your day for you, this will be added like a footstep in your life. If you trace back your trip it will look like a journey to you.
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Week 6: (City) Listening
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Week 5: Doing Feedback
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Week 4: Interviewing
I interviewed Fatma and I wanted to ask more about Fatma personally we shared our emails and WhatsApp numbers for the interview.
- Hi Fatma, can we discuss the interview before the class? Are you available at 1:00pm (London time?)
- Hi, Fatma I’m sending these questions through WhatsApp just in case the email wasn’t sent properly.
- Heyyy I received your email. Thank you sooo much for the answers.
- If you have had to reflect on yourself, would you reflect as a ‘performance of self’ or ‘presentation of self?
I guess I would say presentation of self, I think presentation of self qualifies more to me when I reflect on how I see myself because I am very self-critical and I tend to evaluate my actions, my words and my overall behavior.
- How would you identify yourself, besides your career?
I am a creative individual that loves creativity and I love to live my life with intention and purpose. I would identify myself as a good person, a kind heart that wants to help and make the world a better place in the best way I can.
- I saw your company’s slogan in a pdf file, what is your motto or slogan?
I don’t have a personal motto, but I believe in this famous quote by Henry Ford “Whether you think you can, or you can’t – you’re right”.
- Why did you choose that motto? Why is it important to you?
I think it’s important to me because every time I think about this quote it guides me to a more positive way of thinking. I do believe that you are what you think, and if you think you can then you can and if you can’t then you can’t. And I do strongly believe that we do live in an environment that is constructed by our own reality and to be able to function and move forward and achieve things in life, one must be able to control one’s thoughts. This is something MUCH easier said than done and being now in my 30s I think I definitely am starting to understand and adapt to this concept.
- What is your aim for MAIP?
I honestly love studying about different cultures and societies and just wanting to know more about how people live and communicate with one another. I started my brand in 2012 because of my love for creativity and art, however I als o wanted to signify that we are from Dubai, and I wanted to highlight my culture and traditions through pop-cultural are and that was one of the main reasons that I wanted to pursue MAIP.
- Do you have a goal at the end of this course? Or by the end of this course, what do you want to achieve?
I want to be able to delve more into the idea and origins of culture and how popular culture has had such a huge effect on people’s thoughts and life in general. I would want to finish this course with having a better and more understanding knowledge as I believe that it will definitely help me develop my style and fashion label.
- If you have a chance to collaborate with other individual artists, what kind of artist (ex. An artist who aim…) do you want to collaborate with?
I would love to collaborate with an artist like Kanye West, to understand his impact on fashion in popular culture. I would love to create a collaboration with him in the sense of creating something futuristic and cultural. I honestly can’t even think about how beautiful the outcome might be.
- What kind of story do you want to build?
The story of the collaboration is of two collaborating and intertwining culture, I want to showcase my artwork and designs and I think if Kanye takes it to the next level of how things will be worn and shown etc., that would be a dream come true.
- What would you look like after 5 years? (What kind of person will you be?)
I hope to be a more intentional person, in my actions and thoughts, I would love to be more poised and have a sense of balance in my life. I am hoping that my art develops as I develop as a person, and I can be able to appreciate myself and my creativity much more.
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Week 3: Leaning + Systems
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Week 2: Foraging
What is a foraging?
It is more organic than online.
The future is as fragile a place as the planet and time in turning out.
Foraging is all about asking a question (about the future).
Is this reall the question of art?
Stuff
Material
Productive
Digging
Demining
Ethnic
Action / Behavior
Negative