Today, we practice our picnic dynamics.
Here are the notes we took for our scripts:
QIZE:
Hello and thanks again for being here
Thanks to those from our class, and to all the other guests who made it. So, for those who do not have a clue about what we are doing, we are students from the School of Communication of the RCA, and are doing a project on amplifying marginal voices.
From the start, we were interested in non-human voices, more precisely gardens and forests.
After researching and discovering that we had the chance to have the beautiful Japanese Garden at Hammersmith Park next to our school, then we meeting with the representant of this garden, John Gordon-Smith, we notice that this garden was not known enough from the local community and the greatest wish John had was to have people “rediscover this lost garden”.
For all of you who do not know about it, it is the site of the historical Japan-British Exhibition that took place in 1910.
Quick history (setsuo who found it abandoned, he involved the japan embassy…)
Our contribution is to make people come together and spend time in this garden.
but During the times of coronavirus, this is a little complicated, so we decided to try to do this virtually.
So this is what this picnic is about, spending time in the garden together and observing it. While observing it, we will create haikus together, a form of traditional Japanese Poem that April will talk to you about.
APRIL:
HAIKU
a very short form of Japanese poem in 3 phases, that presents the world objectively and contrasts two different images.
3 rules:
5-7-5 STRUCTURE
the most well known characteristic of haiku. It's also the one that's broken the most.
So there are 3 lines in a haiku, first and third is 5 syllable, the second line is 7 syllable.
different between Japanese and English. in English, one vowel as one syllable.
KIGO / seasonal words
Haiku are often considered nature poems. classical haiku usually have some kind of natural imagery like wildlife or weather.
metaphor that using nature elements to Represent seasons
KIREJI /cutting word
It's one of the hardest to translate because there's no direct equivalent(same) in English.
Kireji mark emphasis and the cut is the change focus from one thing to another.
usually translated in English as: Exclamation mark, dash, ah!
TIPS:
Haiku presents simple imagery, metaphors, and eloquent adjectives and adverbs.
Also to present an observation in a way to the senses. Use sight, touch, sound, smell, taste, or sensations like pain or movement.
Tell of a particular event or observation.
Write in the present tense.
Try to indicate the feelings of the poet as you are writing the poem. When describing an event, present it as an image.
We think haiku is a way to encourage people to make observations on a small object or event in nature, and get closer to nature.
A-S:
Thank you April!
Does anyone have any question regarding what April just taught us?
Ok, so now we will start composing our own haikus together. Our own kind of haikus…
We will ask you to take your phone and go to the Instagram account @japanesegardenathammersmith. For those who do not have a phone, you can use your computer browser and paste this link: https://www.instagram.com/japanesegardenathammersmith/
In this account, you will find a map of the Japanese Garden. Under each images, you can swipe to the left, and find pictures and videos of the garden. We will as you to discover this place and get immersed in it as much as you can. Get inspired by it, try to sense the place.
You will do this for the next 30 minutes, and compose as many haiku lines as you can.
The sound of the wind
Is one line
Watching myself thinking
Is one line
Asleep or awake
Insert your haiku lines as comments under the images or videos that inspired you to create those lines.
What we will do, is that at the end of the picnic, we will gather all the haiku lines we will have created and process them into a haiku generator we made that will remix them and generate haikus for us.
The more lines we write, the more possible combinations we will have.
For example, if altogether we create 100 lines, we will have 161,700 possible haiku combinations.
Maybe that haiku masters or the japanese in this picnic won’t approve of what we are doing, because we are bending the rules of haiku making… but we should see this as a game.
We will be flexible with the syllable count. If you wish to do the exercise correctly, you can count the syllables. But we will accept lines with a different number of syllables.
Also, as we said earlier, this was supposed to be a physical gathering in the park itself, but because of coronavirus, we have to move it online.
This is something we should be conscious of and explore while composing our haikus.
We are in a multidimensional space today...Right now, we are in 3 different places at the same time: our homes, this zoom picnic space and the garden rendered on Instagram…
What does this mean to you? Its about feeling the environment
How do you feel about this? For sure, this might influence how you will compose your lines… What you heard on the news a few minutes ago… The thoughts you are having for your family…
Do not overthink it. This is not an exercise to prove who is better…
JIN:
Hope you enjoyed in our digital japanese garden and had some inspiration.
I have been collecting the lines and importing them into a haiku generator we created.
I will share you my screen now so you can see.
Show database + lines inserted(Talk about the process of the generator and why we choose this way)
Now we will start generating some haikus and see how they come out.
Press play + ask if there is a volunteer to read the haikus)
We read up to 10 haikus together
“So, have you recognized some of your lines?” How do you feel about them being merged with other lines?
As a team, we thought of many ways to create this generator. At first, we thought we would “feed” it only with keywords… But we felt that the human side was lost, as the machine had too much freedom on how to compose the haikus. We thought it could be more interesting to have humans generate small compositions that would be used to create the haikus. It makes it more meaningful.
Does anyone have any questions? Or comments? Today, we practice our picnic dynamics.
Here are the notes we took for our scripts:
QIZE:
Hello and thanks again for being here
Thanks to those from our class, and to all the other guests who made it. So, for those who do not have a clue about what we are doing, we are students from the School of Communication of the RCA, and are doing a project on amplifying marginal voices.
From the start, we were interested in non-human voices, more precisely gardens and forests.
After researching and discovering that we had the chance to have the beautiful Japanese Garden at Hammersmith Park next to our school, then we meeting with the representant of this garden, John Gordon-Smith, we notice that this garden was not known enough from the local community and the greatest wish John had was to have people “rediscover this lost garden”.
For all of you who do not know about it, it is the site of the historical Japan-British Exhibition that took place in 1910.
Quick history (setsuo who found it abandoned, he involved the japan embassy…)
Our contribution is to make people come together and spend time in this garden.
but During the times of coronavirus, this is a little complicated, so we decided to try to do this virtually.
So this is what this picnic is about, spending time in the garden together and observing it. While observing it, we will create haikus together, a form of traditional Japanese Poem that April will talk to you about.
APRIL:
HAIKU
a very short form of Japanese poem in 3 phases, that presents the world objectively and contrasts two different images.
3 rules:
5-7-5 STRUCTURE
the most well known characteristic of haiku. It's also the one that's broken the most.
So there are 3 lines in a haiku, first and third is 5 syllable, the second line is 7 syllable.
different between Japanese and English. in English, one vowel as one syllable.
KIGO / seasonal words
Haiku are often considered nature poems. classical haiku usually have some kind of natural imagery like wildlife or weather.
metaphor that using nature elements to Represent seasons
KIREJI /cutting word
It's one of the hardest to translate because there's no direct equivalent(same) in English.
Kireji mark emphasis and the cut is the change focus from one thing to another.
usually translated in English as: Exclamation mark, dash, ah!
TIPS:
Haiku presents simple imagery, metaphors, and eloquent adjectives and adverbs.
Also to present an observation in a way to the senses. Use sight, touch, sound, smell, taste, or sensations like pain or movement.
Tell of a particular event or observation.
Write in the present tense.
Try to indicate the feelings of the poet as you are writing the poem. When describing an event, present it as an image.
We think haiku is a way to encourage people to make observations on a small object or event in nature, and get closer to nature.
A-S:
Thank you April!
Does anyone have any question regarding what April just taught us?
Ok, so now we will start composing our own haikus together. Our own kind of haikus…
We will ask you to take your phone and go to the Instagram account @japanesegardenathammersmith. For those who do not have a phone, you can use your computer browser and paste this link: https://www.instagram.com/japanesegardenathammersmith/
In this account, you will find a map of the Japanese Garden. Under each images, you can swipe to the left, and find pictures and videos of the garden. We will as you to discover this place and get immersed in it as much as you can. Get inspired by it, try to sense the place.
You will do this for the next 30 minutes, and compose as many haiku lines as you can.
The sound of the wind
Is one line
Watching myself thinking
Is one line
Asleep or awake
Insert your haiku lines as comments under the images or videos that inspired you to create those lines.
What we will do, is that at the end of the picnic, we will gather all the haiku lines we will have created and process them into a haiku generator we made that will remix them and generate haikus for us.
The more lines we write, the more possible combinations we will have.
For example, if altogether we create 100 lines, we will have 161,700 possible haiku combinations.
Maybe that haiku masters or the japanese in this picnic won’t approve of what we are doing, because we are bending the rules of haiku making… but we should see this as a game.
We will be flexible with the syllable count. If you wish to do the exercise correctly, you can count the syllables. But we will accept lines with a different number of syllables.
Also, as we said earlier, this was supposed to be a physical gathering in the park itself, but because of coronavirus, we have to move it online.
This is something we should be conscious of and explore while composing our haikus.
We are in a multidimensional space today...Right now, we are in 3 different places at the same time: our homes, this zoom picnic space and the garden rendered on Instagram…
What does this mean to you? Its about feeling the environment
How do you feel about this? For sure, this might influence how you will compose your lines… What you heard on the news a few minutes ago… The thoughts you are having for your family…
Do not overthink it. This is not an exercise to prove who is better…
JIN:
Hope you enjoyed in our digital japanese garden and had some inspiration.
I have been collecting the lines and importing them into a haiku generator we created.
I will share you my screen now so you can see.
Show database + lines inserted(Talk about the process of the generator and why we choose this way)
Now we will start generating some haikus and see how they come out.
Press play + ask if there is a volunteer to read the haikus)
We read up to 10 haikus together
“So, have you recognized some of your lines?” How do you feel about them being merged with other lines?
As a team, we thought of many ways to create this generator. At first, we thought we would “feed” it only with keywords… But we felt that the human side was lost, as the machine had too much freedom on how to compose the haikus. We thought it could be more interesting to have humans generate small compositions that would be used to create the haikus. It makes it more meaningful.
Does anyone have any questions? Or comments? Today, we practice our picnic dynamics.
Here are the notes we took for our scripts:
QIZE:
Hello and thanks again for being here
Thanks to those from our class, and to all the other guests who made it. So, for those who do not have a clue about what we are doing, we are students from the School of Communication of the RCA, and are doing a project on amplifying marginal voices.
From the start, we were interested in non-human voices, more precisely gardens and forests.
After researching and discovering that we had the chance to have the beautiful Japanese Garden at Hammersmith Park next to our school, then we meeting with the representant of this garden, John Gordon-Smith, we notice that this garden was not known enough from the local community and the greatest wish John had was to have people “rediscover this lost garden”.
For all of you who do not know about it, it is the site of the historical Japan-British Exhibition that took place in 1910.
Quick history (setsuo who found it abandoned, he involved the japan embassy…)
Our contribution is to make people come together and spend time in this garden.
but During the times of coronavirus, this is a little complicated, so we decided to try to do this virtually.
So this is what this picnic is about, spending time in the garden together and observing it. While observing it, we will create haikus together, a form of traditional Japanese Poem that April will talk to you about.
APRIL:
HAIKU
a very short form of Japanese poem in 3 phases, that presents the world objectively and contrasts two different images.
3 rules:
5-7-5 STRUCTURE
the most well known characteristic of haiku. It's also the one that's broken the most.
So there are 3 lines in a haiku, first and third is 5 syllable, the second line is 7 syllable.
different between Japanese and English. in English, one vowel as one syllable.
KIGO / seasonal words
Haiku are often considered nature poems. classical haiku usually have some kind of natural imagery like wildlife or weather.
metaphor that using nature elements to Represent seasons
KIREJI /cutting word
It's one of the hardest to translate because there's no direct equivalent(same) in English.
Kireji mark emphasis and the cut is the change focus from one thing to another.
usually translated in English as: Exclamation mark, dash, ah!
TIPS:
Haiku presents simple imagery, metaphors, and eloquent adjectives and adverbs.
Also to present an observation in a way to the senses. Use sight, touch, sound, smell, taste, or sensations like pain or movement.
Tell of a particular event or observation.
Write in the present tense.
Try to indicate the feelings of the poet as you are writing the poem. When describing an event, present it as an image.
We think haiku is a way to encourage people to make observations on a small object or event in nature, and get closer to nature.
A-S:
Thank you April!
Does anyone have any question regarding what April just taught us?
Ok, so now we will start composing our own haikus together. Our own kind of haikus…
We will ask you to take your phone and go to the Instagram account @japanesegardenathammersmith. For those who do not have a phone, you can use your computer browser and paste this link: https://www.instagram.com/japanesegardenathammersmith/
In this account, you will find a map of the Japanese Garden. Under each images, you can swipe to the left, and find pictures and videos of the garden. We will as you to discover this place and get immersed in it as much as you can. Get inspired by it, try to sense the place.
You will do this for the next 30 minutes, and compose as many haiku lines as you can.
The sound of the wind
Is one line
Watching myself thinking
Is one line
Asleep or awake
Insert your haiku lines as comments under the images or videos that inspired you to create those lines.
What we will do, is that at the end of the picnic, we will gather all the haiku lines we will have created and process them into a haiku generator we made that will remix them and generate haikus for us.
The more lines we write, the more possible combinations we will have.
For example, if altogether we create 100 lines, we will have 161,700 possible haiku combinations.
Maybe that haiku masters or the Japanese in this picnic won’t approve of what we are doing, because we are bending the rules of haiku making… but we should see this as a game.
We will be flexible with the syllable count. If you wish to do the exercise correctly, you can count the syllables. But we will accept lines with a different number of syllables.
Also, as we said earlier, this was supposed to be a physical gathering in the park itself, but because of coronavirus, we have to move it online.
This is something we should be conscious of and explore while composing our haikus.
We are in a multidimensional space today...Right now, we are in 3 different places at the same time: our homes, this zoom picnic space and the garden rendered on Instagram…
What does this mean to you? Its about feeling the environment
How do you feel about this? For sure, this might influence how you will compose your lines… What you heard on the news a few minutes ago… The thoughts you are having for your family…
Do not overthink it. This is not an exercise to prove who is better…
JIN:
Hope you enjoyed in our digital japanese garden and had some inspiration.
I have been collecting the lines and importing them into a haiku generator we created.
I will share you my screen now so you can see.
Show database + lines inserted(Talk about the process of the generator and why we choose this way)
Now we will start generating some haikus and see how they come out.
Press play + ask if there is a volunteer to read the haikus)
We read up to 10 haikus together
“So, have you recognized some of your lines?” How do you feel about them being merged with other lines?
As a team, we thought of many ways to create this generator. At first, we thought we would “feed” it only with keywords… But we felt that the human side was lost, as the machine had too much freedom on how to compose the haikus. We thought it could be more interesting to have humans generate small compositions that would be used to create the haikus. It makes it more meaningful.
Does anyone have any questions? Or comments?
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