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GOETHEAN METHOD OF OBSERVATIONSeeing gesture and movement – becoming one

Dr Sandra Wilson Contemporary Makers.z.wilson@dundee.ac.uk

Delicate empiricism (zarte empirie) 5 Stage method

Stage1 – Observing the Plant Stage 2 – Perceiving the Whole Plant Stage 3 – Seeing in Beholding & Stage 4 – Being one with the object Stage 5 – Seeing Beyond

Value in making - craft & design

Key readings

Colhoun, Margaret & Ewald, Axel. (1996) New Eyes for Plants: A Workbook for observing and drawing plants. Stroud, Hawthorn Press.

Bortoft Henri (1996)The Wholeness of

Nature. Goethe's Way Toward a Science of Conscious

Participation in Nature, Lindisfarne Press. Irwin Terry (2012) Goethean Process: A

Comparison of Different Approaches by

Leading Practitioners

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