Yesterday was our second day on exploring mythology, threat and security. As we bought to know what delusion was extra as a style we have been extra sensitised to how delusion works each in society however extra importantly to be extra sensitised to how delusion is employed in security. This was amplified by a semiotic stroll to the native procuring centre the place individuals have been requested to analyse myths (utilizing the SPoR Fable Identifier Device).
The extra the group understood the variations between delusion, fable, fairy-tale, legend, reality, proof and science, the extra it sunk in in regards to the uniqueness of delusion.
We began the day by working with the SPoR Fable Identifier Device by contemplating the dynamics of delusion and semiosis (the development of that means in delusion).
We then used the SPoR Fable Identifier Device to analyse the dynamics of generally accepted security myths.
The SPoR Fable Identifier Device is a approach of serving to folks de-mythologise belief-faith in delusion to get to the foundational assumptions and beliefs hidden in delusion.
Right here we see one group tackling the Swiss-cheese delusion because it was used within the Covid19 context.
The important thing dynamics of delusion as are follows:
SPoR Fable Identifier Device
Image/Semiotic Semiosis/that means making Iconography Narrative/script Language of delusion Heroics/sacrifice Religion/perception Spiritual/salvation narrative Metaphor Metaphysics Hermeneutic/interpretation Ritual/gesture Soteriology/salvation Political belonging Paralinguistics Tune Dance Artwork Drama Efficiency Meme/slogan Mythic actuality Moral trajectory
The SPoR Fable Identifier Device enabled every group to turn out to be extra sensitised to delusion and the ethic, philosophical assumptions and Discourse hidden in myths.
As soon as individuals had labored with the SPoR Fable Identifier Device they have been then in a position to undertake a semiotic stroll and have been stunned what they noticed in the usage of delusion in each day residing.
The semiotic stroll introduced out the usage of delusion in sporting advertising.
Christmas myths.
Meals advertising
And Nationwide myths just like the Ned Kelly delusion.
Semiotic walks give attention to the expertise and feeling of data and the sensitisation of notion to many issues hidden in plain sights. Semiotic walks (https://vimeo.com/135437986 ) additionally assist folks transfer into the visible verbal world the place many issues are communicated unconsciously and powerfully with nice affect.
All of this studying helps individuals to return to the office and make sure that visible and verbal messaging in threat is efficient, clever, sensible and significant.
We proceed to day to discover the best way the chance and security business focuses on people as dis-embodied. We have a look at how the bias of brain-centrism, behaviourism, metrics, myths of measurement and science foster the creation of myths, methods, semiotics and processes which can be attributed with effectiveness however don’t work.
Moreso, that many of those myths and semiotics really promote the alternative of what’s desired.
We work by SPoR strategies of embodiment in management, care, serving to and studying that higher allow approaches to threat. And as we use these SPoR strategies that target individuals as embodied, not simply objects with a pc like head, we start to achieve a holistic sense of ergonomics that works for the betterment of humanising approaches to threat.
An Introduction to Semiotics and Threat from Human Dymensions on Vimeo.