a framework for toolmaking
Much of technology saps movement from our lives. But replacing the motion is not a meditative stillness, but a fussy stagnation. We move a tiny little bit with a lot of repetition. The same way language influences the way we think tools influence the way we create. As a result many people spend their day lost in a swarm of small ideas. If we create tools that let us literally put our back into our work would we then have access to bigger ideas?
Many people rely on their intuition as part of their creative process. Part of intuition is internalized knowledge. We have the ability to use muscle memory to store information that has little to do with the movement per se, for example phone numbers are easier to dial if you can actually access a phone pad. Currently the tools technology has presented us do not harness that process very well. How is that confining our ideas?
I would like to find ways that we can stir the juice up a little and shake off the mental detritus we collect in the corners of our mind because by choking off part of what we are we limits who we can be.
Focus - Kinestic intelligence, large muscle engagement and the creative process
Direction - Can we enhance our ability to create better objects or experiences by creating tools which engaging the large muscle groups that were once so important to our existence as human beings?