{"id":351,"date":"2010-05-11T13:47:04","date_gmt":"2010-05-11T12:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.idenk.co.uk\/ideasdigest\/?p=351"},"modified":"2010-10-04T09:49:26","modified_gmt":"2010-10-04T08:49:26","slug":"touch-it-feel-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/touch-it-feel-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Touch it, feel it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People like to get their hands on things. It&#8217;s why you see so many &#8220;do not touch&#8221; signs in shops. It&#8217;s\u00a0why my children walked up\u00a0to an Andy Warhol exhibit in a New York museum, fingers ready to jab (until restrained by dad to the relief of wide-eyed curators).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-352 alignright\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" title=\"elephants\" src=\"http:\/\/www.idenk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/elephants-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"elephants\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/elephants-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/elephants.jpg 670w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We are tactile creatures. It&#8217;s a big part of how we understand our surroundings, how we sense the world, how we relate to things and to each other.<\/p>\n<p>These elephants in Trafalgar Square are some of 250 in London at the moment. Each decorated\u00a0by a different artist or celebrity, the aim is to raise money to safeguard elephant populations worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone wants to stroke them, to make contact with them. The models bring the cause to life.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe you have a project or an idea that you want people to understand, to connect with or get behind? Why not make a model of it, a sculpture or some sort of\u00a0object?<\/p>\n<p>Bring your cause to life and see how people react.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People like to get their hands on things. It&#8217;s why you see so many &#8220;do not touch&#8221; signs in shops. It&#8217;s\u00a0why my children walked up\u00a0to an Andy Warhol exhibit in a New York museum, fingers ready to jab (until restrained by dad to the relief of wide-eyed curators). We are tactile creatures. It&#8217;s a big [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[64,69],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":618,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions\/618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}