What Is It???

So for this assignment we had to examine a package that Beth brought in and basically guess at what its contents were. My guess is it was basically a creative works catalogue that helps aspiring artists spread the word about their creations and helps culturally-minded people find out about new creative geniuses.

Now, the real question for this blog post is why I think we're doing this exercise. I think that on the surface, this is about analytical thinking. Looking at something and figuring out what it is is a skill, and this is helping us develop it.

However, at its core, this is also helping us think outside the box about our answers, and I have no doubt that 2 things will happen during lecture: 1, we will find that a lot of people have different opinions about the subject; and 2, we will talk about how this shows that everyone has a different view on everything and how we formulate those views.

So yeah, seeing as the class is called "Seeing Sideways," I assume that this assignment is helping us realize that we all see everything sideways; we all look at everything from a completely different angle than everyone else, and combining those different viewpoints can help to form a much clearer, unbiased picture of any given subject.