Session One: Observation

How many things in this picture would indicate that the location was Berlin? This session questions your powers of observation. How much time do you take to really look at the world around you? Some of us spend hours each day doing just this, listening, looking, thinking. Of course, as a generation, you have been brought up in environments where such passive activity is largely INCONCEIVABLE, but it is a practice you will have to cultivate to be successful.

Your task is to take a walk you habitually take (take it by yourself), something you hardly think about doing, and suddenly, to be self aware that you are doing it, that you have been asked as an architecture student to look at stuff again- why, how, and what. You might find yourself thinking, suddenly, about almost anything; bricks, puddles, fashions, signs whatever. Note the experience as a short piece of writing (less than 150 words) on your newly created blog. 

Go back the next day (shouldn't be difficult- you habitually do this walk) and photograph particular moments or materials you've had percolating in your head from the previous day's thinking.