Starting off unit four of reflections we discussed the context
of the 1964 world’s fair in a social, politically and cultural dimensions that
they presented. This world's fair theme was "Man's Achievements in an
Expanding Universe" and "A Millennium of Progress" puts into
context that technology was a major part of every household. In a political
aspect of design the big globe that was produced I think symbolized that people
around the world are working toward one common goal which was expanding what
was possible and working together to achieve it. After discussing in class the different
aspects of political, social, and cultural dimensions answering this post was
much easier to explain those three dimensions than before. Now I have an
understanding of the many different ways political dimensions are related to
buildings and design. Next class we brought 5 cards to class that represented a
significant design idea. In this class we worked as a group to use everyone’s
cards to group thing by some similar aspect. Our class ended up grouping all the
cards by material, space, object, place, and building. Next we grouped them in
a time span of 50 years such as 1900’s, 1950’s etc. At first as a class we had
conflicts in the way that we would group them because many people had
complicated ideas. Settling for the less complicated idea made it easier to
group everything together but using string to connect all the cards as a whole
was a challenge. Listening to others ideas on how to group things opened my
eyes to ideas and concepts that I didn’t quite think about or thought that they
wouldn’t work. The cards that I chose to
start my autobiography were denim, a color guard rifle, a castle, Colorado Springs
and my bedroom. All five of these cards have led me to my interest in a=some
aspect of design and even more why I ended up in this class and at UK. Next we
were tested over the chair cards that we learned about throughout the semester from
designers that were incorporated with some buildings that we were shown
throughout different lectures in the semester. Our last lecture class we got to
look at everyday buildings we see around campus. During this lecture we focused
on 25 buildings from campus that ranged from classically designed buildings to
mid century, and to modern. We were challenged to group these building by
function or design qualities. For the blog post I chose to describe and explain
the cultural, social and political aspect of the memorial building because of
the popularity and extensive history that it has. Overall this unit has helped
me understand how design tends to reflect on the past in what has worked and hasn’t
and then continues to take some of those fundamental ideas and builds upon them
today. This concept will further be continued in design and will affect newer
and more modern buildings that will be continued in future designs.
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