THOUGHTS ON EXHIBIT THEME: CONNECTEDNESS

Here are some topics, definitions, and links (I got these links by typing “connectedness” into Google. You can also click on images in Google and see what comes up!) to help us brainstorm our projects related to the theme CONNECTEDNESS. My first language is English and my Chinese still sucks, so it’s all in English. My friend translated “Connectedness” for me into Chinese as 連通, 連接, or 有關聯的。

Here are ALL the translations I found in the online translator I used:
通, 接, 串, 搭, 繫, 紹, 交接, 接軌, 綴, 接通, 聯姻, 連接至, 聯接, 搭接, 交結, 縶, 搭咕

There are MANY MANY ways to interperet the theme - have fun! 加油! Jia1 you2!

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Here are just some words/ ideas that came to my mind:
(I tried to translate them into Chinese. Please let me know if they don’t make sense;)
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History - Present
今昔
Ecology
生態
Webs
蜘蛛網
Family
親情
Friendship
交情，鈕帶
Love
愛屋及烏，愛
Sex
性愛
Graphs
生成樹
Language
語系，比劃
Roots, Rivers, Veins/ Artieries/ Lungs/ Pipes etc.
本，荄，樹根，支流，血管，臟
Cycles
週， 週期
Health - Well-being
身心
Karma
因果
Physics - matter, energy, motion, and force
物理
Gravity - Moon phases - Tides
重力 ﹣月相 ﹣海潮
Industrial & Organic
人為／人造 ﹠有機
Body - Mind - Spirit
精神，神，靈魂 ﹣形神 ﹣心 ﹣腦子

ETC.

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Definitions:
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con·nect·ed (k-nktd)
adj.
1. Joined or fastened together.
2. Mathematics
a. Not decomposable into two disjoint nonempty open sets.
b. Having a continuous path between any two points. Used of a curve, set, or surface.
3. Related by family.
4. Logically or intelligibly ordered or presented; coherent: a stroke that left him incapable of connected speech.
5. Associated with or related to others, especially to influential or important people: a photographer who was well connected in the fashion world.
con·nected·ly adv.
con·nected·ness n.

Noun 1. connectedness - the state of being connected; "the connection between church and state is inescapable."

2. connectedness - a relation between things or events (as in the case of one causing the other or sharing features with it); "there was a connection between eating that pickle and having that nightmare"

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Links to Skim (might stimulate ideas)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connectedness

http://web.media.mit.edu/~stefan/hc/

http://www.tltgroup.org/connectedness.htm

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/study_confirms_our_new_connect.php

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/132932/connectedness

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/wordnikcom-the-swiss-army-knife-of-digital-dictionaries-47912352.html

http://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/adolescenthealth/connectedness.htm

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9722082

http://medialabeurope.org/research/group.php?id=5

http://www.allacademic.com//meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/1/1/2/2/7/pages112276/p112276-1.php

http://bcn.boulder.co.us/basin/local/sustain5.htm

http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/project.cfm?id=672

http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/The_Plumed_Serpent_Quetzalcoatl_A_Symbol_Of_Connectedness.html

http://www.dharma-haven.org/five-havens/earth-haven.htm

http://www.cottesloecounselling.com.au/staying_connected_in_relationships.html