The Fishbowl

THEME - he subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic. CONSTRUCTION - the building of something, typically a large structure. - the creation or formation of an abstract entity. WORKER - a person who does a specified type of work or who works in a specified ...

EXPLICIT - stated clearly and in detail, leaving no room for confusion or doubt. IMPLICIT - implied though not plainly expressed. TACIT - understood or implied without being stated KNOWLEDGE - facts, information, and skills acquired by a person through experience or education; the theoretical or pra...

TECHNOLOGY - the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes, especially in industry.
ESSENCE - the intrinsic nature or indispensable quality of something, especially something abstract, that determines its character
LIVE - supply oneself with the means of subsistence.

SHIFT - a slight change in position, direction, or tendency.
WAY - a method, style, or manner of doing something
METHOD - a particular form of procedure for accomplishing or approaching something, especially a systematic or established one

"Designers love questions, but what they really love is ‘reframing' questions" Reframing the question can sometimes make it easier to answer, or can lead to even more questions. “What do I want to be when I grow up?” Is “What do I want to grow into?” By reframing this question, it changes the way we...

"Consciously or not, we feel and internalize what the space tells us about how to work" We all have a space where we are most comfortable. Personally, mine is at my kitchen table. I like to have to ability to get up and walk around to get ideas flowing. I have a seat I like to sit in because it is c...

ABSTRACT - existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence EVOLUTION - the gradual development of something, especially from a simple to a more complex form EMERGENCE - the process of coming into being, or of becoming important or prominent APPEARANCE - an impressio...

SUBSTITUTION - the action of replacing someone or something with another person or thing. ANEW - in a new or different and typically more positive way SATISFACTION - fulfillment of one's wishes, expectations, or needs, or the pleasure derived from this PERFORMANCE - an act of staging or presenting a...

The quote from Anaïs Nin's diary really stuck with me. "If you intensify and complete your subjective emotions, visions, you see their relation to others’ emotions. It is not a question of choosing between them, one at the cost of another, but a matter of completion, of inclusion, an encompassing, u...

"Each part in a symbiotic system is made stronger by its relationship to other parts. Think of your selected words. To connect symbiotically is to link parts to parts, make parts into systems, and join systems to other systems." This is what I have learned to do throughout this semester. Realizing t...

SYSTEM - a set of things working together as parts of a mechanism or an interconnecting network. PART - a piece or segment of something such as an object, activity, or period of time, which combined with other pieces makes up the whole CONNECT - bring together or into contact so that a real or notio...

LABYRINTH - a complicated irregular network of passages or paths in which it is difficult to find one's way; a maze. A labyrinth is an ancient symbol that relates to wholeness. It combines the imagery of the circle and the spiral into a meandering but purposeful path. The Labyrinth represents a jour...