Analysis of Shapes

Child experiment

My neice who is 4 years old is able to write her name with direction but has never tried to write down the alphabet. What i didn’t foresee however was that the influence of computers at a young age would make learning of the alphabet an earlier process as exposure to the key board and websites make engaging with letters more exciting. Or shes just a child genius!.

Phonetic Alphabet

In order to make a new shape for each letter of the english alphabet i will need to divide the alphabet into the categories Kiki and Booba by sound alone.

Therefore i have expressed the alphabet phonetically first in an adults pronunciation then with the way children use it when learning to write.

Experimenting with Shape

In order to get a nuetral and non-biast view of shape association im going to take two groups.

Children 4 and under still haven’t been to school. But have the ability to use a pen and paper and the concept of shape.

People Blind from birth, able to hear the alphabet, but no concept of the shape of each letter, getting them to draw a shape from touch alone and sound.

The Development of the English Language

The development of the English Language through foreign speeching immigrants and other countries has impacted on the way English is being used and constructed. Depending on various ways the speakers native language is structured some vowels and adjectives are being changed usually by applying a form of plurality or dropped all together from sentences. This is therefore leading to misinterpretation and a dividing into areas of different dialects, vowels have evolved and changed over the years in how they’re pronounced which will also be a consequence of the English Language being dominant across the world.

They’re are 328 million Native English Speakers compared to 495 million additional people from other countries that have learnt English as a second language. In Malaysia any English citizen that has no understanding of Malaysian would believe that they have adopted English words in the day-to day speech however their use of the English language is so unintelligible, any English Native would have a hard time understanding them.

In order to create a universal language using shape and distinctive patterns to create words the grammar would need to be simplified and the use of adjectives and certain vowels to simply words.

Wassily Kandinsky

Throughout my schooling in Art and Design in have referred to alot of Kandinsky’s work as i admire it greatly. Researching Synaesthesia i have come to find theories that the forms, shapes and theoretical dynamics of his paintings have been attributed to him possibly being synaesthetic.

Norman McLaren

Dots

Spook Sport

Boogie Doodle
The Previous films all embrace the concept of Synaesthetic properties.

Vilayanur Ramachandran: Synaesthesia (condition with the mind synesthesia)

Synesthesia the muddling of the senses more likely to be discovered in creative personalities an inherited gene found throughout generations of families. Metaphorically thinking is linked to this as the linking of random subjects together.

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/184 (Oct 07)

Alien alphabet name one kiki and the other booba there is no right or wrong answer but it proves that nearly all human beings have this characteristic of synaesthesia and people beleive this is what has given humans the ability to name things and create language.

Just Imagine…

See Univacs Brain in Action 

This is a video of a promotional plug for the use of Remington-Rand’s Univac computer in the office.

Loss of innovation within creatives

Study shows Digg freezes Innovation among its users. Transparently-shared ideas, like those that circulate on popular social networks such as Digg, Delicious, and StumbleUpon, may be destroying people’s creativity. According to a new study published today by two cognitive scientists, people who share ideas in large groups tend to stagnate rather than innovate. They “glom onto” popular ideas and then don’t pursue new discoveries or breakthroughs because they’ve already accepted the common wisdom of the crowd. Small groups, however, offer a different story.

According to a statement about the research from Indiana University:

When information is freely shared, good ideas can stunt innovation by distracting others from pursuing even better ideas, according to Indiana University cognitive scientist Robert Goldstone . . .This study used a virtual environment in which study participants worked in specifically designed groups to solve a problem . . . In the “fully connected” group, everyone’s work was completely accessible to everyone else — much like a tight-knit family or small town. In the “locally connected” group, participants primarily were aware of what their neighbors, or the people on either side, were doing. In the “small world” group, participants also were primarily aware of what their neighbors were doing, but they also had a few distant connections that let them send or retrieve good ideas from outside of their neighborhood.

Goldstone found that the fully connected groups performed the best when solving simple problems. Small world groups, however, performed better on more difficult problems. For these problems, the truism “The more information, the better” is not valid.

“The small world network preserves diversity,” Goldstone said. “One clique could be coming up with one answer, another clique could be coming up with another. As a result, the group as a whole is searching the problem space more effectively. For hard problems, connecting people by small world networks offers a good compromise between having members explore a variety of innovations, while still quickly disseminating promising innovations throughout the group.

Post Taken from i09.com

This could be useful in relation to the idea of innovative creativity is being diminished by group following the major trends and relying on others knowledge through the Internet to extract ideas.