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Transcript
Escaping Flatland
What is Flatland?
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by A Square
How they see
What they actually see
If only they knew What they actually see
Are we Flatlanders?
You can’t learn what you think you already know. -
Epictetus, Best Selling Author
babycake romero Albrecht Durer, illustration from On Measurement
Have you ever drawn a bike?
Gianluca Gimini - www.gianlucagimini.it
Drawings courtesy of Montreal Shopifolks
GIF of someone drawing the bike
Todd McLellan - www.toddmclellan.com
The more you get to know something, the harder it
is to see beyond it.
How to escape PART I Follow the Sphere
Flatland
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Cassie Slack- cslackdesign.com
MIT Media Lab
MIT Media Lab
MIT Media Lab
MIT Media Lab
How to escape PART II Connect physically
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The body knows and remembers. - Juhani Pallasmaa, Architectural Theorist
René Magritte (This is not an apple)
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Our brains can’t be analytical and empathic at the same
time. From a Case Western Reserve University study led by Anthony Jack
Coming back Learn to unlearn
It is only when we forget our learnings that we
begin to know. - Henry David Thoreau, Disruptor
Don’t be A Square
Don’t be A Square Seek knowledge from foreign places Get
out of your head and into your body
Don’t be A Square Seek knowledge from foreign places Get
out of your head and into your body
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