CS S23-02 The Shape of Thinking Through Time
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This course is available via ZOOM and IN PERSON. A ZOOM recording will be available.
Shape itself can help us read the past and glimpse the future. A web shape summarizes migratory humans’ worldview, imitated in round thatched huts, kivas, and Stonehenge. A ladder mindset arose with urban humans, reflected in structures from pyramids to skyscrapers. Today networks master our lives. What’s next? From web to ladder, network to next, we shape our world; then it shapes us.
Lois Stark
Lois Farfel Stark (BA, Sarah Lawrence; MEd, Boston University; MA Communications, American University) produced and wrote documentaries for NBC News; filmed in Africa, the Middle East, Europe, and Cuba; and independently made films covering architecture, medical research, globalization, and social issues. Awards for her films include an Emmy and two CINE Gold awards. Her book The Telling Image: Shapes of Changing Times won a Gold Nautilus Book Award, Grand Prize from Next Gen Book Awards, and a Gold National Indie Excellence Award. Her TEDx talk is titled Shape: Hiding in Plain Sight