Today’s Conservation studies class was really different from our usual boring lectures for electives. The mail sent to us with the requirements had got us all really curious about what Ma’am had planned for the class. We started off with being asked to form a circle, which really turned out to be an ellipse, and so that was our first failure as a class. After which we formed an almost perfect circle and the task was for us to hold one palm open and the other one with our index finger placed on the palm of the person sitting next to us. Further, we were asked to grab the finger of the person next to us and make sure our other finger was not caught by the person sitting next to us, simultaneously. It was an interesting and pretty difficult task, to be honest. Some of us failed and the others succeeded in completing the task. We the got divided into groups of 5-6 and after which we were given 2 words and express the same with two models and newspaper with our own creative minds.
As a group we discussed on what we wanted to do, and settled on portraying aesthetics through symmetry. Our two models were dressed exactly the same and represented the twin towers.
The second word given to us was ‘element’. For this we decided to choose one of the primary and most important element to support a structure which are columns and arches. To represent a true arch, we used newspaper to show the keystone and the abutment on the columns. The simple exercise taught us so much on teamwork and getting creative within a time constraint. As a group, we’re really looking forward to our next class and to more tasks like these rather than the long lecture which we usually have to attend to.
Bell the cat 