Interpreting my surroundings.PRES - 2016-2017 by isabel https://padlet.com/imorales/s4hetg9csr1u What can I see? How do I see it? en-us 2017-03-03 10:45:44 UTC 2023-06-11 06:43:11 UTC hello@padlet.com Do you think that classroom space design or other places such as houses, cities, rooms, gardens...has some sign language behind? Can there be an analysis from a gender perspective? imorales https://padlet.com/imorales/s4hetg9csr1u/wish/157571319 2017-03-03 10:55:26 UTC https://padlet.com/imorales/s4hetg9csr1u/wish/157571319 Look around to analyse your space. Do you think that there are signs that could be interpreted from such a perspective? Which ones? Why? imorales https://padlet.com/imorales/s4hetg9csr1u/wish/157571367 2017-03-03 10:55:38 UTC https://padlet.com/imorales/s4hetg9csr1u/wish/157571367 Do you think your interpretation matches with your classmates', family's...? imorales https://padlet.com/imorales/s4hetg9csr1u/wish/157571401 2017-03-03 10:55:50 UTC https://padlet.com/imorales/s4hetg9csr1u/wish/157571401 Think of some modern housing design thinking of women and influenced by gender elements.. Inequality, closed spaces, open spaces..? imorales https://padlet.com/imorales/s4hetg9csr1u/wish/157571612 2017-03-03 10:56:03 UTC https://padlet.com/imorales/s4hetg9csr1u/wish/157571612 luciaraindo https://padlet.com/imorales/s4hetg9csr1u/wish/160362078 There is a purpose behind every building depending on its function: A school will be built with lots of room for children and with safety measures in mind...
But the gender thing reminds me of how in offices there is that metaphor of women and a glass ceiling that they have to pass, due to inequality...(Lucia) ]]> 2017-03-15 19:35:36 UTC https://padlet.com/imorales/s4hetg9csr1u/wish/160362078 luciaraindo https://padlet.com/imorales/s4hetg9csr1u/wish/160362525 Gender perspective... refers to what exactly? My space is full of art, notebooks, papers, books, my laptop and computer, lots of cables, a lamp... and things I've made because I enjoy craft-making a lot. Light always comes in straight onto my desk so I have to pull down the blinds cause it reflects in my eyes. (Lucia)]]> 2017-03-15 19:37:52 UTC https://padlet.com/imorales/s4hetg9csr1u/wish/160362525 luciaraindo https://padlet.com/imorales/s4hetg9csr1u/wish/160363032 I would interpret my space as colorful and creative. I spend so much time here! (Lucia)]]> 2017-03-15 19:40:00 UTC https://padlet.com/imorales/s4hetg9csr1u/wish/160363032 luciaraindo https://padlet.com/imorales/s4hetg9csr1u/wish/160363268 That makes me think of Bernarda Alba, a play written by Lorca. In those times, women lived in closed spaces, and had limited freedom. In the case of this play, the family was in mourning over the father's death and had to spend a year dressed in black clothing and barely leave the house. (Lucia)]]> 2017-03-15 19:41:03 UTC https://padlet.com/imorales/s4hetg9csr1u/wish/160363268 jdyksterhuis https://padlet.com/imorales/s4hetg9csr1u/wish/160843846 I believe the semiotics in terms of spaces relates to the way they are transmitted.  For example, I think it is quite easy to tell if you are in a primary class versus a bachillerato class.  Primary classrooms tend to be filled with lots of color and eye-popping material on the walls and throughout the classroom whereas classes for bachillerato students tend to be more simplistic.  Gender perspective plays a major part in space design, especially when referring to houses and gardens.  Women prefer to add delicate touches to spaces.  While men are generally okay with living in a simple place with nothing on the walls or anything to display, women tend to make their spaces more “homey”, meaning that they like to add pictures, plants, everything matches and has a general theme, so to speak.  Women also like to tend their free time in the garden whereas men prefer to spend it in the garage. (Jackie)]]> 2017-03-17 16:31:45 UTC https://padlet.com/imorales/s4hetg9csr1u/wish/160843846 jdyksterhuis https://padlet.com/imorales/s4hetg9csr1u/wish/160843973 Gender perspective could play a part.  My room is filled with photos, plants and flowers, artwork, books and other belongings that make it feel homey.  My male roommate, on the other hand, his room is very basic with not many decorations.  For me, it does not seem homey, but he has a different perspective of “homey.” (Jackie)

]]> 2017-03-17 16:32:19 UTC https://padlet.com/imorales/s4hetg9csr1u/wish/160843973 jdyksterhuis https://padlet.com/imorales/s4hetg9csr1u/wish/160844183 I would describe my room as simplistic and natural.  I have a lot of plants and natural light in my room and my space is very quiet.  While sitting at my office desk, I am able to concentrate and study easily.  I have candles and pictures of family and friends everywhere in my room to add some color.  Because this is where I generally study, it is important that it is designed in such a way that allows me to focus without distractions. (Jackie)]]> 2017-03-17 16:33:10 UTC https://padlet.com/imorales/s4hetg9csr1u/wish/160844183 jdyksterhuis https://padlet.com/imorales/s4hetg9csr1u/wish/160844290 For as long as we can remember, a woman’s “place” has always been seen as at home, but more specifically, in the kitchen.  Women were always seen as the caretakers for their children and for their husband.  When the man comes home from work, the woman generally has food provided for him.  Although things are starting to change, this perspective is still by most people. (Jackie)]]> 2017-03-17 16:33:39 UTC https://padlet.com/imorales/s4hetg9csr1u/wish/160844290 I think spaces and decoration have a meaning whatsoever. There is an oriental theory named Feng Shui that explains how objects and spaces should be decorated to atract the good energy. I believe light and orientation of the spaces afect directly over our mood and decitions. Schools have started to decorate their spaces to breack with old ways of teaching and influence students minds. (Álvaro alvaro_manzano https://padlet.com/imorales/s4hetg9csr1u/wish/161069259 2017-03-20 05:47:38 UTC https://padlet.com/imorales/s4hetg9csr1u/wish/161069259 Yes my house is full of signals and spaces decorated by my wife. For example plants and candles or even incense. These objects represent her personality. There are also objects that come from our girls decoration and explain their time growing into the house. It´s very nice to see how the whole house is full of signals open to be interpreted. (Álvaro) alvaro_manzano https://padlet.com/imorales/s4hetg9csr1u/wish/161069638 2017-03-20 05:51:50 UTC https://padlet.com/imorales/s4hetg9csr1u/wish/161069638 alvaro_manzano https://padlet.com/imorales/s4hetg9csr1u/wish/161070029 Of course. Every piece of decoration determins the personality they have and the interpretation of the world they make. 
Our house is a mixture of diferent personalities living toghether and making an interpretation of space and life. (Álvaro)]]> 2017-03-20 05:58:01 UTC https://padlet.com/imorales/s4hetg9csr1u/wish/161070029 alvaro_manzano https://padlet.com/imorales/s4hetg9csr1u/wish/161070090 I was thinking about my sister in law house decoration and like they have moved recently you can apreciate the changes from the house she had before and the decoration she has done now. You can apreciate how she has become a more practical woman and how spaces are more open and lighted and how the colors have become more palid and sweet. (Álvaro)]]> 2017-03-20 05:59:12 UTC https://padlet.com/imorales/s4hetg9csr1u/wish/161070090 santiagomartinezruiz1990 https://padlet.com/imorales/s4hetg9csr1u/wish/161104276 The spaces in which we live are a sample of our way of being and our intentions. For example a completely chaotic room can reflect a disorder in our personality, a moment of convulsive life or simply neglect in the person. Likewise, having everything placed in the millimeter and scrupulously clean can bring to light manias and nervousness.

From the gender perspective women tend to decorate in a much more colorful way, with many more things, from my point of view overloading the rooms (generalizing).

I consider myself much more minimalist and therefore I look for a more sober decoration, that in the house everything has any utility.

An example of this is that I want to buy a movie projector and I do not have 2 square meters of free wall where to put it in my girlfriend's house, I will have to project it on the ceiling.

(Santi)]]> 2017-03-20 09:47:53 UTC https://padlet.com/imorales/s4hetg9csr1u/wish/161104276 santiagomartinezruiz1990 https://padlet.com/imorales/s4hetg9csr1u/wish/161106925 I have been living at my girlfriend's house for half a year, which is why I do not feel very much like the decoration of the house, I have only included two blackboards that I use to study and a table lamp, for when natural light is not Enough and left my eyesight. These are the only two contributions that I have made to the decoration of the house, if they can be considered decoration, but the house is full of pictures, plants, postcards stuck to the walls, flowers (some of them plastic) Which changes color and many books. (Santi)]]> 2017-03-20 09:57:29 UTC https://padlet.com/imorales/s4hetg9csr1u/wish/161106925 santiagomartinezruiz1990 https://padlet.com/imorales/s4hetg9csr1u/wish/161108259 This workspace is a multipurpose space in which we eat, remove dishes and become our study place, so on the table is exclusively what is used to work, but the decoration is seen in the rest of the livingroom (Santi)]]> 2017-03-20 10:02:17 UTC https://padlet.com/imorales/s4hetg9csr1u/wish/161108259 santiagomartinezruiz1990 https://padlet.com/imorales/s4hetg9csr1u/wish/161110260 The idea that I have of construction after having studied the engineering career of the building, is that they are not usually created singular houses with indefinite budgets in which it is possible to unleash the imagination of the architect and adapt the construction itself to the Future buyer of the home. So in most cases unless you are Gaudi in most cases is played with the decoration, not with the building. But if I had to build a house exclusively for women I would leave an exclusive room as a dressing room attached to each bedroom, expand the bathrooms and give them mirrors and light according to the hours that can be spent in these rooms. While for men perhaps think of a refrigerator where they fit a few more beers or an exclusive room for tools, where to wash the car ... Depending on the needs of the consumer (Santi)]]> 2017-03-20 10:12:33 UTC https://padlet.com/imorales/s4hetg9csr1u/wish/161110260 Multipurpose tableroom santiagomartinezruiz1990 https://padlet.com/imorales/s4hetg9csr1u/wish/161249433 (study time)]]> 2017-03-20 16:44:05 UTC https://padlet.com/imorales/s4hetg9csr1u/wish/161249433 Time to eat!! =) santiagomartinezruiz1990 https://padlet.com/imorales/s4hetg9csr1u/wish/161250356 2017-03-20 16:46:16 UTC https://padlet.com/imorales/s4hetg9csr1u/wish/161250356