In thinking about what could be used in creating imagery for this brief, it was decided to think about what is seen as representing nature in humans and what is seen as representing nurture in humans, exploring these as individual concepts rather than one, which most people accept now that both are equally as important as each other.
What represents nature in humans?
- Genes/hereditary factors/family.
- Physical appearance/personality traits.
- DNA coil.
- (Religion - beliefs from the ancient Greeks regarding the soul?)
- Evolution (debatable as representing both nature and nurture).
- Human cells.
POTENTIAL IDEA: use just one of these to use as background imagery, for instance an abstracted image of human cells and intertwine type with this imagery e.g. amongst cells or wrapped around a DNA coil.
Human nature - six things we all do (article):
This article states that, although we exhibit lots of individual and cultural variations, humans are animals, and like all animals we have idiosyncrasies, quirks and characteristics that distinguish us as a species, and therefore believes that the concept of human nature does exist.
Anthropologists have identified many "human universals" - characteristics shared by all people everywhere, which constitute a sort of pars list of our species. What emerges is a suite of characteristics that encapsulate our nature:
1. Skills - being playful.
2. Knowledge - being scientific.
3. Behaviour - being legislative.
4. Feeding - being epicurean - "Where animals just eat, we make a meal of it".
5. Sex - being clandestine.
6. Communication - being gossipy.
https://www.newscientist.com/round-up/human-nature/
What represents nurture in humans?
- Environmental variables.
- Early childhood experiences/upbringing.
- Social relationships and culture.
- Religion.
- School and learning environments.
- Evolution (debatable as representing both nature and nurture).
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