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--- parenzana_residency_notes [2013-10-05 15:38] – [Notes from 20131004] sarah.neville
+++ parenzana_residency_notes [2013-10-06 10:19] – nik
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   * sayings, aphorisms, proverbs
   * things we tell each other as short stories ("the sun has changed…"). Would asking people to talk about when the sun changed elicit personal stories across different cultures and communities linked by a shared experience with the weather?
   * The moon and the weather may change together, But a change of the moon, will not change the weather.
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 === Divination and invocation in storytelling ===
 Divination: descriptive, reactive; "the practice of seeking knowledge of the future or the unknown by supernatural means."
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 === Oral - Written - Digital stories ===
   * Should we focus on myths and legends or 'lore' (a body of traditions and knowledge on a subject or held by a particular group, typically passed from person to person by word of mouth)
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   * Finding historical and contemporary lore about observing animals as early warning systems for weather changes and natural disasters
   * To discuss: cemetery of discarded stories (and dead media)
+  * Community conversation on "the sun is different" / "the sky is red"
 **Myths and Natural Early Warning Systems**
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 http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/01/0104_050104_tsunami_animals_2.html</blockquote>
+====Notes from 20131005 ====
+=== Conversation with Matt ===
+  * Human reactions to controlled environment (such as a city, http://www.superflux.in/blog/infrastructure-fiction) and uncontrolled environment (everything that's not a city)
+  * Weatherlore is an interesting direction, it seems more malleable than myths
+  * Evolutionary psychology - how much of our worldview is based on primitive responses? to research: meaning making in humans, in contrast to animals, who primarily respond to stimuli without trying to make sense out of it
+    * e.g difference between a bird sensing EM field in contrast to the human responses "making stuff up to try to understand what happens".
+    * human responses to stimuli: physical (tend to be dampened nowadays), mental (meaning making)
+    * sonic experiment - pre-disaster changes in EM field
+    * physical responses to the environment: body weather
+    * (non)awareness of environmental changes: e.g. bushfire on an unusually hot day out of bushfire season in Adelaide Hills: seasons are more in flux, but people tend not to pay attention to signals from the environment. if the laws change to make an out-of-season fire instigation into criminal negligence - proof of acceptance of climate change.
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   * How do humans make meaning of events that happen to them?
   * The role of meaning in human thinking http://jetpress.org/v17/marsen.htm
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+  * Levi-Strauss postulates that myths serve to mediate conflicting or dualistic elements of society and life.The symbolic mediation in myths offers inspiration for culture and culture members to heal, flourish, or accept their reality.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_L%C3%A9vi-Strauss
+====Notes from 20131006====
+  * staged photgraphs as design fiction and/or design noir. moments of mixed familiarity and unease (e.g. eating pizza in groznjan, machine readable objects, green sky, densisty of air, prevalence of monocles)
+  * decay and half-life of aphorisms. persistence of relevance in proverbs. graveyard of false lore, forgotten aphorisms.
+  * illustrations for contemporary proverbs and the future perspectives which make them appear quaint