Description
This course will approach the age-old problems of Knowing and Being as indissolubly conjoined to one another (hence the newly happy hyphen in “onto-epistemology”) as well as integral to every activity of Making (hence the intensive use of the suffix “-genesis” after any made thing).
Can one think ‘Being’—can one participate in the creative process that is both indifferent to and exquisitely responsive to our actions as designers—from within Being itself?
The wonderful thing is that in our best moments in life we already do this. The problem is that we have allowed thought routinely to misrepresent our relation to the universe—that is, to reality—in such a way as to endlessly thwart our efforts and intuitions to connect all living force to the same reservoir of creative potential that makes existence musical and magical rather than a dreary affair of indexing finite things. In sum, what we are seeking to grasp here is the nature of Nature and how to bring its endless dynamo into