Renaissance+day

=**__Year 8.__**=

**"Man is unique not because he does science, and he is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvellous plasticity of mind".**
J. Bronowski, The Ascent of man.

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B Mc Inally, Renaissance day wiki page. IST
 * "Humans are unique not because they do science, and they are unique not because they do art, but because they combine them and do __design__ and __technology__ and through this show their marvellous plasticity of mind".**=====

For [|renaissance] day this year we will be looking at the work of Leonardo da Vinci. The polymath who pioneered a design process that is still used by designers today, almost 500 years after his death.

If we look at a piece of work from Leonardos portfolio you should see that your work has lots in common with his.


 * [[image:wiki_pic_2.jpg width="507" height="358" align="center" link="http://www.mos.org/sln/Leonardo/"]] || We can see that Leonardo was using visuals and text as he tried to work out and explain how his designs would work and how they could possibly be made.

Leonardo was using 3D visuals, some of them in [|perspective.]Indeed, some people think that perspective is one of the main things that defined the renaissance.

His annotation was mainly for him, it helped him clarify his thinking but he wanted to keep his writings secret so he wrote using codes. (This means that Leonardo would fail his DT assessments!!!!!!!!!!!!).

We, on the other hand want to share our thinking with an audience, this means our annotation has to be easy for others to read. (This means you wil pass your DT assessment. One up on Leonardo). ||

Another thing you have in common with Leonardo is that he went to school to learn and develop, just as you go to school for the same reasons. The schools may have been very different but they had the same purpose. Below is an example of one excercise that Leonardo had to do at his school. He had to draw this cube.



We are going to do this 500 year old excercise but using 21st century designing tools to help ensure our work is as good as it can possibly be.


 * [[image:Da_cube_1.jpg width="213" height="171"]] || [[image:Da_cube_3.jpg width="213" height="174"]] || Both cubes have been drawn using computer aided design.

CAD allows us all to produce visuals that are top class.

When we have these drawings saved we can easily produce different types of drawings, we can edit and change these drawings easily, we can even make photos (Photos of things that have yet to be made, of things that dont exist yet) using CAD generated visuals.

These tools that Leonardo could not even dream of are available to most designers/architects/engineers and artists today. ||

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