Process: Giulia and I placed ourselves on either side of the glass, with a piece of paper stuck on our respective sides. Giulia then taught me how to reverse park, by writing the instructions on the paper backwards, so that from my side of the glass, it would read the correct way. If I had questions, I would also write them backwards, so that Giulia could read them the correct way.

 

We identified that the commonality between our two skills was the concept of 'reversal'.

Because we didn't have a physical car, Giulia used diagrams on paper to teach reverse parking. This sparked the other connection between the two skills, which is the flatness of our medium. We wanted to preserve the documentation of the teaching process, but rely entirely on the medium of writing.

Writing itself is reliant on the direction and orientation of letters, so the process of the work forced our brains to work against our trained perceptions of literacy, in order to communicate and deliver instructions.