Victoria's picks:
The Ocean, by Nathaniel Hawthorn. (Poetry.org)
The House by the Railroad [Painting] (moma.org)
Instant Gratification by Paul Roberts (longreads)
Which Country does the Most Good for the World? by Simon Anholt
What aspects of the course content are artistic responses able to represent that academic articles and data-based reports cannot? Why do you think this is? If you could use any medium to create an artistic response to the course content, what might it be, and what might you do?
The topic of International Aid and Voluntourism is one that lends itself to three general manners of expression: data, art, and prose. Its aspects that most lends itself to artistic responses are those that involve emotion and sympathetic/empathetic feelings. Many people use artistic manners to convey certain ideas of importance (or what people perceive as important) that otherwise may go ignored in favor of either hard facts, or nothing at all. Art and creative pieces that either tug on the heartstrings or inspire the audience to feel or relate are the most effective. Emotional responses are underestimated in how effective they are - they could possibly be tied to the idea of 'the gut feeling'. In addition, emotions are what people usually end up acting on, and are more powerful in certain circumstances than logical thinking. For me, I would probably use a mix of mediums to create a piece of art that expresses an emotional value - and since expressing the negative aspects is a bit overdone (in my opinion), I'll probably find a snapshot of life or a piece of a scene that elicits a happier mood and illustrate that.
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