“So… not to be ignorant, but what is digital accessibility?”
This question is a reminder to share not only what I’m passionate about, but to also expand on what digital accessibility means and why it’s important now more than ever before.
Larry Busbea’s The Responsive Environment: Design, Aesthetics, and the Human in the 1970s is a serious and creative attempt to link twentieth-century architectural landscapes with object–oriented ontology and aesthetics theory. An associate professor of art history at the University of Arizona, Tucson, Busbea’s research focuses on the interactions of design, art, and critical theory.
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Sitting here
High-waisted
cropped jeans. Velvet
turtle neck. Hair in a top
knot.
Feeling scrunched, bunched
around my neck
and shoulders.
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Design History Beyond the Canon is a result of an institute held in July 2015 at Drexel University where a group of scholars and designers from the United States came together to discuss the topic Teaching the History of Modern Design: The Canon and Beyond. The institute created a container for several conversations: the methods of design history; the boundaries around art, design, and craft; and the integration of scholarship that challenges the canonical approach into the teaching of design history. In creating this collection of essays, the writers aspire to continue these conversations.
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Rhythm means movement of a recurring nature. Like a beat. Like the pulse of ocean waves against the shore. There’s consistency. There’s discipline. As I mentioned in my previous post, I’m interested in cultivating a rhythm of being, a rhythm of moving through the world.
I’d like to dive deeper into this idea of discipline. For me, I can speak to being disciplined in fear and listening to the mind. I’m committed to habits that reinforce the parts of my brain that act from a place of fear and past conditioning. Most of my work lately has been becoming aware of those parts and bringing them empathy. Because as debilitating as they are, they once served a purpose. Even protected us when we were at our most vulnerable. Once we give space and acknowledgement to these parts, we learn that they have something to teach us.
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Isn’t it nice for things to be easy once in a while? Wouldn’t it be amazing if you could cultivate a state of mind to prepare for what your future self might need?
Ease is one of those needs that’s important for me to have in my life. I like things to flow, one wave in another, into the next. I like to have a rhythm of being.
On an unconscious level, I’ve become adept at thinking about my future self and what it might need, and I’d like to share my findings with you. This is the first in a series of tips, tricks, and techniques I use on the regular to invite more ease and rhythm into my life.
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