“We’ve
decided. We’re moving to Arden Hills,”
Perhaps
another set of words did not exist to trigger the sinking discontent I felt in
that moment.
Alright I might have exaggerated my disgusted response a little bit but at the time 'Arden Hills' was synonymous with 'nature' and I really wasn't interested in experiencing any more nature than I had to. Today as we explore the evolution our relationship with nature has made we've come to learn that we all experience it in different ways. Those who identify their experiences with nature as physical interactions with the land and organisms of this planet sans technology, social pressures, and the superficiality of daily life will perhaps observe the largest change. In order to survive in the world, the advances in technology we've achieved today are essential. Neglecting the ever changing standards and requisites of our lives can easily end in death very similar to that of Chris McCandless. For those who interact with nature as an ideal will enjoy the strongest resistance to change in the long run. Nature as an ideal is perpetuated through texts that are often heavily influenced by romanticism and Utopian-like descriptions. Our answer to these questions was simply but effective. By using our own personalities, along with the characters people assume of us, we conducted a small scale social experiment that showed our audience the differences between our personal dialogues and the ones we read instead.
The group process was more abstract I must say than the typical intelligent and organized SPA student however it was this free flowing process that prompted our success. Having experienced tachycardia myself I jumped on the opportunity to write about it. This worked perfectly as we decided to each produce two monologues describing our unique relationships with nature. Once we did this we looked for ways to show how each of our experienced differed from what you may assume. To do this we decided a live presentation of each other dialogues would provide and interesting perspective. If I were to change anything it would be to increase the degree of the project that we conduct as team members and more fluidly integrate the individual parts. All in all the project provided a creative and intuitive conclusion to a creative and (counter) intuitive class.
The group process was more abstract I must say than the typical intelligent and organized SPA student however it was this free flowing process that prompted our success. Having experienced tachycardia myself I jumped on the opportunity to write about it. This worked perfectly as we decided to each produce two monologues describing our unique relationships with nature. Once we did this we looked for ways to show how each of our experienced differed from what you may assume. To do this we decided a live presentation of each other dialogues would provide and interesting perspective. If I were to change anything it would be to increase the degree of the project that we conduct as team members and more fluidly integrate the individual parts. All in all the project provided a creative and intuitive conclusion to a creative and (counter) intuitive class.
