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Ideation is the first stage of the Zineography process. Reflect and add a short response to the prompt below based on your personal experiences. Responses can be short and sweet (e.g., a word or a couple sentences), as the collaborative list of ideas will then be used to inspire responses in the Creation stage. You are welcome to submit as many responses as you like; please note that responses are anonymous and manually moderated, so your response(s) may not appear online instantly.
Prompt: How do you listen to different worlds?
Consider different ways of thinking about this prompt:
- How do you prepare to listen?
- What does listening look like to you?
- What does listening feel like for you?
- What does listening sound like to you?
- What does listening involve for you?
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I take a breath and get ready to make notes and associations.
I think we can be better at listening… Listening with our whole body, being engaged with our posture for example. When speaking with someone else, we should value pauses and silence more – allow more breathing space. Listening to different worlds also implies developing our mindfulness and awareness of place and other non-human entities.
Listening – withholding the urge to respond to it; it’s not about responding
Listening is a skill for yourself – you have to be strong enough (not afraid of being challenged, or of being wrong). A really important skill
Listening to new worlds can be uncomfortable – I don’t feel safe – exiting my bubble, the uncertainty of that
Churches and clubs as safe spaces to listen
Think of when to stop asking things
Making a safe space to be listened to – personally I prefer to look at their eyes and mouth, but this may be uncomfortable for others. Safe spaces need to be created
I think Listening has 2 aspects: listening to others and not feeling reactive; listening to myself (thoughts too fast and too many, so how do I also listen to myself?). A constant balance as a designer – moment of reaction and reflection
Before you listen, you need to define what listening means to you – if we passively listen to others, we value everything – listening is a neutral world, but can be changed by your values (especially when dealing with different worlds)
An embodied experience – not just using my ears, but also using hands, ears, eyes, hands – trying to capture these worlds; embodied
First thing is to be aware (language or metaphorically) of languages spoken. Multiculturally we may mean different things, so trying to find a middle ground
Close your eyes, allow your mind to wander, listen, and bring it back again
To be mentally prepared – shitting off thoughts on current worlds, and prepare as if I was entering another entities. Being blank – agnostic as I enter this world. Most important preparation is clearing thoughts so I don’t bring any bias
Create a space
Empty that space
Giving that space
Sharing space
=Occupy that tension and delay
Moment of holding my breath and almost forgetting to let go – feeling nervous
Go mentally prepared, clear thoughts about previous worlds ! previous webpages, delivery texts, notifications, any aniticpated task in between is a distractor ! no multi tasking as the rule ! if hungry, unwell, headache , can feel disoriented and dis-connected to the new world !
Tune into/ Lean onto
Mirror mimetic moments
Vacant vessels
Situate yourself
Listening feels like a cool moment of quiet, still awareness, which creates a non-judgemental space for the relational connection
With passage of time and the incremental usage of technology listening is becoming challenging. It takes a little effort to listen what you hear and for me listening begins when I start a conversation with inner-self. When I listen I start to act, react, reflect, so on so forth much start happening in me and during conversations as if I am getting addressed by two persons one who is next to me and the other who is inside me.
When I prepare to listen, I am reminded of the sounds of a tree and the time it takes to truely hear the movements of leaves, branches and the wind that moves around the spaces of a tree … Then I take a deep breath.
not thinking of what to say next
i look at their mouth
I prepare to listen by broadening my perspective – literally and metaphorically. Literally, I take deep breaths and allow my physical eye-focus to broaden from its narrowed view, I pay attention to my peripheral vision and relax. As my phsysiological body has calmed, my metaphorical perspective widens. My narrow individual focus broadens to include those things and beings that are not always included in my day-to-day vision; unintentionally excluded. A little ritual to help me unlearn this unintentional behaviour and create new pathways – in my brain, in my mind, in my vision, in my listening to and embracing other worlds. Indeed, a performative ritual based on my individuality in hope of reaching collectivity.
I take a sip of water whenever I feel like I need to fill a silence – reminds me to step back