In the Tableaus for Humanity project we created vignettes with corresponding tableaus. Before starting the project we looked at social and technological phenomena, reading the dystopian short stories: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, The Veldt, and Harrison Bergeron, and learning about some of Garret Hardin's theories. These theories included Lifeboat Ethics, Cultural Carrying Capacity, and Tragedy of the commons. When the we finished looking at possible causes of a dystopian future we were split into groups of three. In those groups chose a topic, from which they created a vignette and a tableau.
My group chose to focus on the downfall of education and the importance of the arts in our vignette and tableau, both of which are shown below.
Of the three dystopian short stories mentioned above, The Veldt by Ray Bradbury is my favorite. Not because I loved it, but because I didn't like the other two at all. They had interesting concepts and ideas, but they were boring, slow and anticlimactic. I prefer the mysterious air that the Veldt has.
As I mentioned above, the vignettes were written in groups of three. At first this was a little awkward, as writing is something I usually do on my own, but I got used to it after a while. My group chose to write our vignette by sitting around the computer, talking and brainstorming, a different person typing each time. It went smoothly for the most part, but I wish my groupmates had stepped up. Maybe it's because I do a lot of creative writing on my own, but it feel like I took over. However, even when I stepped down, nothing changed. That was the only problem I had writing in a group.
My group chose to focus on the downfall of education and the importance of the arts in our vignette and tableau, both of which are shown below.
Of the three dystopian short stories mentioned above, The Veldt by Ray Bradbury is my favorite. Not because I loved it, but because I didn't like the other two at all. They had interesting concepts and ideas, but they were boring, slow and anticlimactic. I prefer the mysterious air that the Veldt has.
As I mentioned above, the vignettes were written in groups of three. At first this was a little awkward, as writing is something I usually do on my own, but I got used to it after a while. My group chose to write our vignette by sitting around the computer, talking and brainstorming, a different person typing each time. It went smoothly for the most part, but I wish my groupmates had stepped up. Maybe it's because I do a lot of creative writing on my own, but it feel like I took over. However, even when I stepped down, nothing changed. That was the only problem I had writing in a group.