knowing + community

the courage to teach

quote] "knowing is how we make community with the unavailable other, with realities that would elude us without the connective tissue of knowledge. knowing is a human way to seek relationship and, in the process, to have encounters and exchanges that will inevitability alter us. at it's deepest reaches, knowing is always communal." pg 54

thought] that we need people, we need them so that we may understand ourselves, but we also need them to teach us new things about the world in which they live in. however, people need you, because you provide a different understanding of the world that you live in. community is necessary in order to gain knowledge.

leaves as identity

there are so many trees that grow in north carolina, but most of the leaves have similar shapes with a similar vein structure. but there are many that are different too. different leaves of trees have inspired me to create a texture | pattern on each locker of a student. both the sketch and models show how the front of the lockers would look as an individual as well as a whole grouping of lockers.

tree rings as art wall element

the encore hallway is currently stark, so i would like to add a wall element that resembles the rings of a tree, when you cut the trunk. the wall will be composed of slats so that artwork or current events could be hung at different heights. i also imagine having a similar system at the classroom entrances so that teachers could hang special announcements.

dis-member + re-member

these sketches portray the use of tactile wayfinding + signage + a horizontal locker system + possibly a slat system at the classroom entrance to hang artwork or updates.

circles are the foundation of branching

tactile lockers + large graphics

some inspiration before I dive into designing the circulation spaces for the northern guilford middle school and the 6th, 7th, and 8th grade areas. my goal is to allow the circulation to act as a feeder to the classrooms and offices so that it can rejuvenate the students and teachers. i think that this will help with school spirit and encourage students to be active within their community.

the phenomenology of round + re-membering

the powers of 10- charles and ray eames

the poetics of space-gaston bachelard

"sometimes we find ourselves in the presence of a form that guides and encloses our earliest dreams. for a painter, a tree is composed in roundness. but a poet continues the dream from higher up." 239

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the courage to teach-parker j. palmer

"remembering ourselves and our power can lead to revolution, but it requires more than recalling a few facts. Re-membering involves putting ourselves back together, recovering identity and integrity, reclaiming the wholeness of our lives. when we forget who we are we do not merely drop some data. we Dis-member ourselves, with unhappy consequences for our politics, our work, our hearts." 20

thought] our world is composed of infinite circular objects from the tiniest of seeds to our galaxy. maybe it's in the stars, but maybe our lives should be round. in order to grow and find our identity and integrity we need to define what makes us whole, thus round.