and the specific kinds of sensory data and memory system meaning making that gets triggered by an aesthetic object. I do believe there are specific kinds of meanings that are formed in relation to objects and environment. I experience different meaning making constructs in an art gallery, compared to a classroom, compared to a conference presentation, compared to washing the dishes. What I want to do is understand how these meaning constructs are occurring, and make distinctions amongst them, amongst choosing which of those environments or objects I will design as learning experiences in my teaching. There is a difference, in my subjective experience of a comic book, a novel and a video documentary. They are all aesthetic objects, and I can expect some similarities because they fall into that category, I can also expect differences, because they all employ different visual, narrative, and textual strategies for me to decode. The process of decoding carries it’s own layer of meaning making, sensory data and memory system connections. The form the object takes means that it carries it’s own requirements for ‘language and fluency’ to be able to decode the object and ascribe meaning to it.
