We hope that you have been enjoying our features on Senior Projects this summer. Have you noticed how each project highlights the student’s unique personalities and interests? Today is no different.
Zeke Theule: Aristotelian Surfboard Shaping
My project deals with something that almost everyone knows about and something that a lot of people love: surfing. Since the Ancient Polynesians first started, humans have had a fascination with riding the powerful forces of nature that are waves. In order to do that you need a very key tool. That is a surfboard. Aristotle says, “we cannot have knowledge of a thing until you have grasped it’s why, that is to say it’s cause.” Based on that, he presents his 4 causes of change in the world. The formal, the material, the efficient, and the final cause. What I did, is I took those causes and shaped a surfboard using their logic.
