presentation given at Knowing through making conference

1. Les Bicknell
thinking through making

4. These are the things
These are the things
The things that dreams are made of.
Human League 1981 album Dare

5. how do you know
what to do next?
when is it finished?
how do you know?

6. difference

10. similarity

14. alternative thinking
through
laboratory choreography

20. No man ever steps in the same river
twice, for it's not the same river and
he's not the same man.
Heraclitus
glove box gallery

21. electron microscope

24. casting the space of a book

29. structure describing itself

37. Stereographic Projection of Crystal Faces
crystallography

38. Six vignettes from Opticorum Libri Sex
Peter Paul Rubens

40. Six vignettes from Opticorum Libri Sex
Peter Paul Rubens

68. notions of success

69. setting out
to not know
setting out
to not know

70. build more
starting points
than finished
ones
build more
starting points
than finished
ones

71. to be changed
to be changed

72. We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
T.S. Elliot
Four Quartets

73. thank you
lesbicknell.blogspot.co.uk/
Les Bicknell
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