What is the difference between ‘seeing’ and ‘thinking that one has seen something’?

There were lots of exercises to initiate the processes of ‘observation’ and understanding one’s own biases, conditioning and positions while observing. There were conversations around seeing, looking, assumptions and imaginations. Simple techniques for getting initiated into ethnographic approaches were used to design their experiences. Students also began to maintain a sensory non-linear documentation of their observations in the form of a hand-made journal. While doing this they were exposed to different paper folding techniques to convey meaning while maintaining the journal.

Students chose to go to a place or remember a place of their choice in the city, and identified elements of it and mapped them, and later went and talked to people. It was a process of understanding cartography, where the map was not just about position but disposition. Through personal experiences of familiar and unfamiliar places they were introduced to design thinking and visual thinking. This later led to the deeper “understanding”, “stakeholder analysis”, “problem framing” and looking at “wicked problems”.