Changing attitude

Changing attitude | Part 07

Few days later, me and my friends, a group of boys with number of people fluctuating from 4 to 6, decided to change the atmosphere we were working in. Our existing style of learning was that we all would be sitting on different drafting table dedicated to each of us and we would be sitting on a high stool. We decided to change this seating arrangement.

I personally didn’t like forcing others to take part in the administering of my ideas, but I did invite a couple of my friends into this. What I did was I flipped a couple of pin up boards and made it into a large table by resting it horizontally flat on two other small tables. Now we have a bigger table on which we unrolled a few waste white A1 sheets for covering it.

Dude! That was when I starting feeling like I was falling into this wide experience of being an architect. That was the first time when I started using bold pencils, probably a 6B or a 10B to scribble my definite lines. Simply I would scribble them down. I used sketch pens and markers to do the same.

Usually we had five of us working together, sharing our thoughts and ideas, combining them together to form at the least a new design form. I loved this method of learning. Soon others also started doing this and I could witness a real discussion happening based on what we are trying out newly.

We started having a strong emotion and commitment towards the assigned work.

Maybe less than a month or so, I don’t know why, our faculties told us to get back to where we were sitting. We were told to remove the panel and erect them like they were before. The discussion table was thus discombobulated. The active discussion ended. We were all backing onto that single desk and stool individually back to our inefficiency. They didn’t like us sitting together. Maybe they would have thought we were wasting our time. I don’t know. I got bored eventually.

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