This past week has been an explosion of learning. The night sky, the constellations, the stars and their magnitude and the ways to observe them have opened my eyes to a new realm of understanding us as human beings. Our ancient ancestors could see patterns in the sky and could use the patterns for multiple reasons. Life lessons and teaching seems to become more prominent in the ancient greek and roman era as human society starts to turn into a more civilised culture compared to tribal living.
As I've been mainly researching into the constellations myths and legends, I've been noticing comparisons and large differences. The differences are most definitely cultural but the most outstanding commonality between a lot of the stories is that Ursa Major (The Big Dipper) is often observed as a bear in many societies. These stories are interesting and if I would take anything away from them as inspirational, it would be how they tend to teach some form of life lesson or propose morals.
Something that I have found really interesting which has been a product from the myth researching is how there are the magnitudes to each and every star. Half way through the week I had decided to focus on figuring out the myths and legends and that individual stars aren't that interesting. However, I'm happy with what I've learned around the concepts of constellations and their usefulness to humans. I now want to look at the night sky from a different approach. After discussing with a faculty member, it was pointed out to me that I've been focused on observing what is there in the sky. To look at the space between the stars, everything in space that isn't matter is a so called 'Dark Matter', without attempting to solve it's mystery, I should at least look into what it could be and see what interesting facts surround it. After the workshop on Friday 25-10-19, speculative design thinking, which got me to think of something to do with my theme that maybe impossible or unachievable, I also created a mock headline "New colours found in space". I thought this to be interesting because of the curiosity around the colours that are caused in the cosmos and how we can actually barely see colours in the night sky with the naked eye.
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