Enquiry
How does ordering, as a concept, shape our perspective on making and reading?
Key reference
I focus on the relationship between things.
Tools represent an action:
• Cut butter creates a sequence of volume.
• Cut paper creates a sequence of surface area.
• Pruned trees are divided into branches that remain and branches that are removed.
Cutting is a way of establishing a new order.
Visualizing Thinking
Experiments
Same relationship, different content.
Normal content, different relationships
1
Shifting the content of a book away from its original page, altering the relationship between content and layout.
2
Rearranging the order of the IKEA website, altering the relationship between content and pages.
3
In modelling software, modifying the shape of objects and the logic of texture mapping so that the entire image conforms to the entire shape of the scene, altering the relationship between the image and its supporting surface.
Many of the tools we use are structured around the sequence of content and its correspondence with the medium that carries it, such as books and websites.
This week, I experimented with disrupting this correspondence, creating intentional misalignments to further explore the relationship between content and medium.