Project - 3, Context (1000 words)

Project - 3

Final Photographs of a person experiencing the activity: -
Below are the images of a person, performing the activity by following the instructions on the sheet given.

Project - 3

Images of the "Set of Instructions on How to Cut an Orange"

Project - 3, Eating an Orange

Final Presentation of the Experience

For the final presentation of the experience of the activity for the teachers, I gave teachers a chopping board, a sharp knife, an orange, a plate and instructions sheet on how to cut an orange. The teacher had to follow the instruction step by step to cut the orange. The instructions were: -

 

1.    Pick an orange.

2.    Place the orange on a chopping board.

3.    Pick up the knife.

4.    Hold the orange with one hand, as shown in the picture.

5.    Place the knife in between the top of the orange and cut it in half as going down the stem part.

6.    Hold the one of the half piece of the orange and cut it into half. Repeat with the other half piece (big semi-circle).

7.    There are four pieces of orange in the wedges shape.

8.    Cut these four pieces, same way, into further half-half pieces, leaving eight pieces in result.

9.    Hold one of the slice and peel of the skin with the knife, as shown in the picture. (Be careful with the knife, it might be sharp).

10. After removing the skin with knife, place the piece on the plate.

11. Repeat this with all the remaining slices of orange (peel them with knife and put on to the plate)

12. Peel off the any remaining white skin (left-out) with the knife.

13. Ready to eat.

 

Project - 3, Eating an Orange

Proposed Experience

The final experience that I choose is from the "Routine" structure of feeling i.e. making the teacher cut, peel the orange in a certain way and than consuming it. Through this teacher can actually experience the regularity and routine of the everyday common activity. I am thinking of providing the teacher with set of instructions on how to cut an orange, step by step and asking them to follow it while cutting the orange. The instructions would be like: - cut the orange into some ten pieces and peeling off the skin one by one. As it will appear fun in the beginning but later when repeating same thing ten times, would be boring and hard, that which leads to the experience of routine as boring and undesirable.

Project - 3, Eating An Orange

For project - 3, I thought of various ideas for the experience of the activity by the teachers: -

 1. Choosing structure of feeling as 'Rebellion'-

•   Doing something else instead of just eating the orange for example: -  drawing with orange pieces.
• Collecting different oranges on the basis of taste as sweet, sour, not sweet etc.
• Changing the color of the orange slices with food colors.
• Changing the taste of pieces by dipping them into salt water, lemon juice etc.

2. Choosing "Comfort"-

• Feeding the orange pieces to the other person in bed.

3. "Austerity"

• Capturing the smell of orange from the orange skin.

4. "Glamour"

• Cutting the orange slices very precisely and creating a nice luxurious atmosphere and than feeding the orange in a glamourious way.

5. "Routine"

• Looking along the production lines such as: - packaging of oranges etc.
• Cutting/peeling orange in certain way and than consuming it.

Project - 3

PROJECT - 3    EXPERIENCE

Project - 2 - Final Words

References: -

Luo, M. R. (2006). Optics & Laser Technology: Applying Color Science in Color Design. U. K., Leeds: University of Leeds, department of color and polymer chemistry. Retrieved from http://www.sciencedirect.com.helicon.vuw.ac.nz/science/article/pii/S0030399205001313

Mccown, J. (2004). Colors: Architecture in Detail. United States of America, Massachusetts: Rockport Publishers.

Philip, H. (2008, April 5). Eating With Fingers. United Kingdom: The Times. from http://search.proquest.com.helicon.vuw.ac.nz/docview/319867635?accountid=14782

Spence, C., Levitan, C. A., Shankar, M. U., Zampini, M. (2010). Does Food Color Influence Taste and Flavor Perception in Humans? LLC: Springer science+business Media, 68-84. doi: 10.1007/s12078-010-9067-z.

Final experiment

The experiment regarding, changing colors interests me the most and is most rebellious out of the three experiments. It is interesting because usually people assume the orange to be orange color and coloring the orange pieces was totally opposite this assumption.

Project - 2 Experiment - 3

The third experiment I choose to do is eating an orange with fork or toothpicks instead consuming straight with hands, which can be counted as “Rebellion” as well because while thinking of orange, people usually assume it obviously to eat with hands. For this experiment I laid orange pieces peeled, half with the white skin and half without the white skin. Through this I want to experiment that whether there is a change in taste or not by eating with fork or toothpicks instead by hands. After the experiment I found that one person enjoyed the orange, eating with hand and the other person liked eating with fork because with fork it was more juicer and full flavor at once, in the mouth. The interesting thing was that none of the three persons picked up the piece with the white skin. 

 

 The above photo have the orange pieces peeled but left side is with white skin and the right side without white skin.

These photos above shows that people prefer peeled orange pieces without the white skin.

 The pieces with white skin are as it is whereas pieces with no white skin are reduced.

Project - 2 - Experiment - 2

The second experiment was cutting the orange into different shapes and comparing it with the orange cut into simple way as “Austerity”. First peeling the orange and then cutting it into different shapes. I choose this experiment because was just curious that whether people choose complicated pieces to eat or the simple easy pieces to eat. On experimented people chose the pieces, which were easy to eat and was more juicer. Keene reports that according to the Matos, "Fruit is so delicious and healthy, and making the fruit into lovely creations that people can enjoy is a lot of fun” (2012).

 The above photograph shows the different shapes of orange pieces such as: - in circular, square, rectangle, semi-circle, sun and other shapes.

 In the above photograph, the person chose the orange piece that was easier to eat.

 In this photo, the person chose the piece that seemed more juicer and biggest in size.

This person also chose the piece that was easier to eat.

This photo shows the remaining shapes.

 References: - 

Keene, C. A. (2012, July 15). Fruit Artist Puts Her Skills on Display: On the Job; On the Job. United States, Boston: Globe Newspaper Company, Inc. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com.helicon.vuw.ac.nz/docview/1026559800?accountid=14782