How do you approach writing about communicating with an unknown entity? What form should my writing take on and how could the form of my writing support my enquiry?
After the first tutorial, I struggled with starting my writing. I wasn’t quite sure how to structure it since “Triangulate 1“ didn’t really work out the way I wanted and I felt a little bit lost. There were several different routes I was interested in taking and a lot of terms and questions that I had:
Subject Matters?
Identity, Misinformation, Miscommunication, Pictoral Language systems, Communicating with an unknown audience, Failure, Perfectionism, Mistakes, Constraints, Representation of identity, objects, Bias/Stereotypes, single-sided stories of identities in pop culture/media, Surrealism
Methods
Curation, Participatory Curation, Illustration, time-based media, multiple mediums/methods.
Tackle a topic with a multidimensional approach (illumination the subject from different angles), instead of focusing on one single method (one-dimensional)
Questions?
– How does graphic communication design shape the way we represent our identities?
– What role does graphic communication design have in the process of forming our identities?
Representation, Access to tools/knowledge/media etc, design history, cultural influences in graphic design?, (Diversity in graphic design practices, Western design/art history, in education, Industrial design,…
„Using participatory curation and a multifaceted practice to form a body of narratives surrounding individual perspectives on identity?“
With “Triangulate 1“ I wanted to have people express their thoughts about identity through a rigid system to an unknown entity. To counterpart the Golden Record and collect a multiplicity of thoughts on the identity of humans. I didn’t realise that I was actually just creating a system to create abstract images. But what does that mean in terms of communicating with an unknown entity?
During the first tutorial, I came up with the thought of using the writing to talk to the unknown entity. The writing should be a one-sided conversation between the entity and me. Which ends up becoming a monolog. The writing includes casual sentences which personalise the content. Everyone who reads it starts to become an unknown entity and starts putting themselves in their shoes.
I decided to use my writing to explore the ways of communicating with an unknown entity, attempts that have already been made and if there are different ways of finding a common ground within communicating with someone you can’t even comprehend.
Here you can find the initial draft for my writing that I brought to the second tutorial of Triangulate 2: