12 AUG 2022 · In this last episode of the course, I’ll explain how to do closure practice without the guided audio tracks that you have practised with up to this point.

12 AUG 2022 · This exercise is the same exercise as the one in episode 3, but is not narrated. Instead, musical markers denote the points of transition. Major for observation, minor for contemplation. This track has 6 cycles of observation and contemplation. You may choose episode 4A for a shorter practice.

12 AUG 2022 · This exercise is the same exercise as the one in episode 3, but is not narrated. Instead, musical markers denote the points of transition. Major for observation, minor for contemplation. This track has 3 cycles of observation and contemplation. You may choose episode 4B for a longer practice.

12 AUG 2022 · This is about learning to perform closure practice as a combination of the observation and contemplation phases. In the introduction, I explained the importance of opponent processing, the dialogue between scaling down and scaling up, between the inner physicist and the inner philosopher. Opponent processing helps you reject unhelpful framings and build up to a critical point where your representation of the context you’re working on can change which makes an insight occur.

12 AUG 2022 · This exercise is about learning the contemplation phase of closure practice in isolation. In order to close the design space, to constrain the infinite possibilities for action, you need to integrate parts of the context into new wholes, you need to be able to project those new wholes as potential framings onto your context, fabricate new lenses, obtain new ways of seeing the context. A part of this process is unconscious and you don’t need to have this as an explicit goal. But this is what you’ll be practising.

12 AUG 2022 · This exercise is about learning the observation phase of closure practice in isolation. In order to close a problem space, you need to break up your perception of objects and concepts into parts to find out what they really are. This is what you’ll be practising.

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