Well, as I said in a previous post, I had the opportunity to be in two different campuses. The “Business” and the “Design” ones.
Back in the time when I was studying at college, we were more or less conventional and conservative in our attire. Freshmen, or to be more exact, Freshwomen wore too much make up (especially for the 6:00 am class) and jewelry. As the semesters went on, that appearance changed to the white-t-shirts; jeans; sneakers style and there was no need to wake up at two in the morning to blow dry your hair.
One day, in one of the cafeterias where there were around two hundred students, a new one came who had dyed his hair green. People whistled, said rude comments, and even suggested that the nativity characters could go up on top of his head.
He was one in a hundred or probably in a thousand.
Later on, in the Faculty of Design, I was amazed at how different students' looks were from each other. Piercings, and tattoos and student fashion so unique that it called for creativity. These students were more comfortable with diversity than the other ones and in the rare case someone said something, it would probably have been in regards to the one wearing jeans and white-t-shirts and sneakers.
At that time, I took a course on “New Pedagogical Ideas for the Development of Creativity” and “Design Teaching”. One of the professors had a very cool appearance, and being younger than thirty he had dyed his hair with polar white. His appearance was so different that it was hard to like or dislike it in a short period of time. One should have to take a second look.
Then he explained about the importance of creating “your personal code” in the way you talked, dressed, or even walked. Not uniforming yourself would make a call to others not to get any assumptions about who you were but instead, they had to understand that code first if they wanted to know you; and at the same time, he invited people not to judge people based on their looks but rather try to understand the other person's personal code.
Back in the time when I was studying at college, we were more or less conventional and conservative in our attire. Freshmen, or to be more exact, Freshwomen wore too much make up (especially for the 6:00 am class) and jewelry. As the semesters went on, that appearance changed to the white-t-shirts; jeans; sneakers style and there was no need to wake up at two in the morning to blow dry your hair.
One day, in one of the cafeterias where there were around two hundred students, a new one came who had dyed his hair green. People whistled, said rude comments, and even suggested that the nativity characters could go up on top of his head.
He was one in a hundred or probably in a thousand.
Later on, in the Faculty of Design, I was amazed at how different students' looks were from each other. Piercings, and tattoos and student fashion so unique that it called for creativity. These students were more comfortable with diversity than the other ones and in the rare case someone said something, it would probably have been in regards to the one wearing jeans and white-t-shirts and sneakers.
At that time, I took a course on “New Pedagogical Ideas for the Development of Creativity” and “Design Teaching”. One of the professors had a very cool appearance, and being younger than thirty he had dyed his hair with polar white. His appearance was so different that it was hard to like or dislike it in a short period of time. One should have to take a second look.
Then he explained about the importance of creating “your personal code” in the way you talked, dressed, or even walked. Not uniforming yourself would make a call to others not to get any assumptions about who you were but instead, they had to understand that code first if they wanted to know you; and at the same time, he invited people not to judge people based on their looks but rather try to understand the other person's personal code.
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