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So I have this real-life situation of graffiti on Berlin wall donated to South Korea, so I came up with this KQ: How our personal knowledge influence our decisions of determining what is an acceptable vandalism?

And I came up with some knowledge claims:

1.  The distinguish of artwork is influenced by the cultural milieu surrounding the graffiti

counterclaimWe do not know if the situation we are having now is a cultural milieu or not; it could be interpreted as a crucial part of the history, and significance could be provided by future descendants. 

2. The graffiti is determined as art if it grants a new value to the canvas(wording?).

counterclaim: There is no such thing as a universal qualification in the area of arts; so we could not measure the value of an art

3. Distinguish is made through the intention of the vandalism; if it is intended to benefit the public or a private

counterclaim: art is just an expression of one's creative idea, thus it should be acceptable if it provides aesthetic value; regardless of it has the intention of public benefit or not.

Could you please check the KQ, if these make sense and is related to TOK, and maybe give an idea for the evidence for the claims? Or maybe second real-life example?

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The topic is good, but perhaps the KQ is slightly more RLS than a KQ because it mentions vandalism. You can try replace vandalism/graffiti with "historical artefact" or "art" and that pinpoints a specific AOK. It may also help with finding additional, supporting ideas by not focusing on graffiti. Overall you are on the right track and without restricting yourself to graffiti your presentation may be made a lot stronger and diverse. For example more encompassing KQs include "How valuable are personal knowledge and opinions as historical artefacts?" or "Can expressions of dissent have aesthetic value?" (depending on whether you want to focus on history or art).

 

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11 hours ago, kw0573 said:

The topic is good, but perhaps the KQ is slightly more RLS than a KQ because it mentions vandalism. You can try replace vandalism/graffiti with "historical artefact" or "art" and that pinpoints a specific AOK. It may also help with finding additional, supporting ideas by not focusing on graffiti. Overall you are on the right track and without restricting yourself to graffiti your presentation may be made a lot stronger and diverse. For example more encompassing KQs include "How valuable are personal knowledge and opinions as historical artefacts?" or "Can expressions of dissent have aesthetic value?" (depending on whether you want to focus on history or art).

  

Thanks for the reply. For the knowledge claims, do they have to contain an AOK/WOK? Cause I had a hard time finding an appropriate AOK or WOK about the second and third knowledge claims. 

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