Layout Being Human

A Non-scientific approach to the myth behind the brain.

Proposal ...

Creating the 'Awe factor' of our bodies

Using Tashan as our man of the moment, and one day reflection of today's society and living

He Is a human

Define human - Physically/ Factually / Dictionary/ Wikipedia

Humans are bipedal primates belonging to the species Homo sapiens (Latin: "wise man" or "knowing man") in Hominidae, the great ape family.[2][3] They are the only surviving members of the genus Homo. Humans have a highly developed brain, capable of abstract reasoning, language, introspection, and problem solving. This mental capability, combined with an erect body carriage that frees the hands for manipulating objects, has allowed humans to make far greater use of tools than any other species. Mitochondrial DNA and fossil evidence indicates that modern humans originated in Africa about 200,000 years ago.[4] Humans are widespread in every continent except Antarctica, with a total population of 6.8 billion as of November 2009.[5]

Like most higher primates, humans are social by nature. However, humans are uniquely adept at utilizing systems of communication for self-expression, the exchange of ideas, and organization. Humans create complex social structures composed of many cooperating and competing groups, from families to nations. Social interactions between humans have established an extremely wide variety of values, social norms, and rituals, which together form the basis of human society. Humans have a marked appreciation for beauty and aesthetics which, combined with the human desire for self-expression, has led to cultural innovations such as art, literature and music.

Humans are noted for their desire to understand and influence their environment, seeking to explain and manipulate natural phenomena through science, philosophy, mythology and religion. This natural curiosity has led to the development of advanced tools and skills, which are passed down culturally; humans are the only species known to build fires, cook their food, clothe themselves, and use numerous other technologies.

flesh and blood, something that we all share and can relate to,

I have 1 body

2 arms, legs, hands, feet, lungs, eyes, ears,

10 fingers and toes,

1 heart, mind and soul,

I smell, see, taste , touch and hear,

making everything around me become clear,

1 body, mind and soul, all these physicality's we all have and know.

through these human characteristics, we have 5 sense, 6 in some cases,

1.Touch

2.Taste

3. Sight

4. Hearing

5. Smell

Using these to define what how every different, yet the same, we will look at

how our body demonstrates the use of the senses

1.Touch - hands, feet and body

2.Taste - mouth

3. Sight - eyes

4. Hearing - ears

5. Smell - nose

We will,

Using bob to ...

1. Creative an emotion or emotive sentence about something he has seen/heard/smelt etc - at this point we want it to be very obscure, but evoke a sense of reliability to our time and people today (Nic's writing)

could even be a summary of a news story to suggest current affairs

2. Define a function/ workings of it, the sense/boy part that reveals slightly more, psychical yet emotional

e.g. looking someone in the eye, - creative writing form, 'gaze' 'stare'

3. fact - what it can do the part, they cry, weep in the cold, stink, blink in the sea, etc …

4. the body part - i am an eye / or an image

We will do this for each one, also thinking about how the layout of the publication affects how we read the information within it.

This is in reverse order, so that the emotion comes before the definition of the sense,

We want to Define the sense and its body part factually, and its function, then we then reveal that it is still just an eye that everyone has, its about creating a sense of wonder about us as human beings

CWDC adverts

While these are not relevant in content, the style of suggesting that an object is not just an object, that it relates to a greater meaning,

'It's not just a bouncy ball, It's a smile'

http://bethedifference.cwdcouncil.org.uk/site/#/ads/bouncy-ball

I know it is slightly reminiscent of the M&S ad's 'It's not just a chocolate pudding.....etc

However, I like the idea that a things or even smell can evoke the strongest of feelings within us as human beings, feelings which vary from person to person, yet are made up of all the same flesh ,organs and bone as each other.

Smelly things...

I was given 'Smell' as my sense to research for an area of this publication. I know what a nose is, I know that I can smell things that I like, dislike, new and old, but I didn't realise how much smell is linked to memory and nostalgia.

I began by watching a documentary about smell and London, and what sort of smells remind us of a certain place. The majority of people that were asked were in their 60's, along with a few younger people too. However, what i find most interesting is that many of the older generation referred to the smell of London being of 'smog' and 'smoke'. In relation to now, I don't think that is how i would describe the sense of it. This made me think about how over time things change, yet they are still remembered. For this project, we wanted to define a human being at this precise moment, the modern day (for us) so that once it was published we would be able to look back on it, reflectively. We watched a video about being a Human Being, and how we all have the same characteristic, and organs, but we equally have our own peculiarities, that make us different.

In order to be able to define a human I feel like we have to deal firstly with the physical being and then with the emotional being, through our senses, and how they allow us to connect with others and what we can do or choose to do with the body you have been given.

Using Smell,

1. To associate us with our emotions, and memories,

2. The brain can remember 4000-10,000 smells

3. Some believe that the smell receptors are directly liked to the brain (our emotional seat) and that's why we remember emotions through smells

4. One man described that he remembers the day his father died through the smell of rain on a pavement, as this was the weather on that day

5. 'Nothing revives the past so completely as a small that way once associated with it'

- In this way if we were to define smells of now, then when people looked back, they would be able to remember a particular time

6. Proust's hypothesis of odour memory

To be able to make it relevant to today, and keep the theme of Comfort going, I think that we need to find out the smells that represent today and that others share with one another, so that they are things that will be remembered in time to come.

Touch

Touch is one the the five senses of human beings and animals. It involves all parts of the human body but is often liked to the use of the hands. The information brought to the brain from a texture is calculated by vibrations of the epidermis, translated into nervous signals by the mechanical receiver systems. The information can be modified depending on the pressure, the speed and the length of the touch.

The touch is essential for the survive and evolution of the human beings. Fundamental key for the discovery of the environment, the exploration, the locomotion, the gripping ability, the nutrition, research of the solar exposure, socail relashionships, sexuality...

Nervous reactions to textures are an imporant part of the touch, the information is modified wether what is touched is : Hard, soft, slipery, moisturise, hairy, furry, smooth, gentle, rough, sharp, hot, cold, warm, plain. But also reactions to winds, liquids and gases.

Skin is the essential organic part of human body responsible of the analysis of these external informations but hairs, hair, nails, mucous membranes and related muscles and glands can do so. Skin weighs an average of four Kg and covers an area of two square meters. It is made of three distinct layers, epidermis (the most superfical), dermi and, subcutabeous tissues. There are two main distinct types of human skin: glabrous skin (the non- hairy skin of the palms and soles) and the hair- bearing skin.

With the four other human and animal senses, touch provides human beings a concrete understanding of the surrounding elments and a practically imidate reactions.

Troubles can alterate the sense of touch by modifying the information interpretation; skin disorders and cutaneous diseases.