Reasons for knocking at an empty house
(unfortunately the internet wasn’t working in Madison last night…)
I was very intrigued by the title “Condominiums in Data Space?” and the more I read the more I was wondering why Viola chose that title.
I loved all the thoughts he brought up and the little anecdotes were just great, but I could not make a connection to the Condominiums.
So I googled condominium to make sure there isn’t more than the one meaning I knew. I found some pictures of condominiums and was wondering what it would be like to have a swimming pool in Data Space…
Actually the Abbey memory system was the only connection I could make to the dominium. It reaminded me of a man that came to my university in Germany to talk about memory. He was amazing and tried to teach us how to remember things. It was more of a show, but one thing he did was take a room and bind terms we were supposed to memorize to certain objects in the room. Figure 31.2 brought a vivid image of this memorizing expert to my mind.
Personally I think Dr. Campbell chose this reading because Viola talked a lot about the holistic idea. The Whole is the sum of its parts! At about that point in the reading I went back to check if the title of the reading maybe was the title of a book and we just had an excerpt. But I was even more surprised when the booktitle turned out to be “Reasons for knocking at an empty house”.
My question is: Did Viola pick the titles to get peoples attention? Or did he actually believe they make sense? And what does a porcupine have to do with empty houses and condominiums?
His comments about visual diagrams branching off and freeing students from boring and incompetent teaches was a little too much for my taste. He just through so many ideas in this short piece of writing and up to that point I actually enjoyed the mindjogging, but with this statement he almost suggested that all teachers were incompetent and boring. And is it really the computer programmers job to free students from those teachers or should politicians do sth about teachers? (Well if I look at the “no child left behind” act, I actually might change my mind and go with the computerprogrammers… )
I loved his analogy with the chopsticks. And actually thinking about this analogy finally makes me realize where he might be coming from with his condominium idea. Some people own webspace (condominiums) others have to rent the webspace, or pay for using the pool 