Observing Time

Employing positivist observation as a bridge to abstraction in Early Design Education Experience, Technology, Speed

Abstract

This paper seeks to demonstrate, that teaching students first as positivist Observers, facilitates a less abrupt or ruptured transition from convention to abstraction in an analogous fashion to the ways in which cultural observation techniques that evolved in the 18^th +19^th centuries provoked the 20^th century avant-garde abstraction.