Phase 1: Week 1
Review
This phase of work allows you to develop and refine your project brief and research question, following a review of your work to date. At this stage you also outline the contextual positioning and reasoning for your chosen approach.
Weekly learning objectives
The phase objectives set are a guide, to help you build confidence and the strength to drive your own project. We want to see a clear project structure and a demonstration of the skills you have developed through modules 1-4.
- What is your research question?
- How might I…?
- Who is this for?
Introductory practice case studies
Lecture introduction
In the first two weeks of the module there are eight case studies covering both theory and practice.
In addition to these, there are useful lectures and resources from past modules, which are relevant to every stage of your development. These archived resources should be revisited alongside the development of your own individual research / reference material. You can find them in the resources section of this module.
Practice | Lecture 1 – Publishing Multiplatform
Alec Dudson, Intern
Practice | Lecture 2 – Social Change UX
Joe Pochodzaj
Lecture Notes – Theorised Making: Ben Evans James.
Ideas Wall – Weeks 1-2
Three weeks after the end of every module all Padlet boards will be cleared of posts and a downloaded PDF version of each board will be saved and embedded on the page in canvas for future reference.
If you would like to download and save a copy of any of the Padlet boards yourself at any time before they are cleared you may do so by following these instructions:
- Expand the Padlet board to full screen
- Click share
- Scroll down to save as a PDF
Research/Notes
I’d hoped to be able to take the Market Hall project through to fruition, but it’s not possible as it’s – pretty much – a complete project already, it just needs pulling off.
I don’t want to revisit the town for a new version of the project either. There are two more buildings of the same style and era, but what would I do with them? People’s attitudes to them are the same as they are to the Market Hall; some love them; some hate them and would prefer what was there in the first place.
What would a study reveal in terms of a design project?
Looking back through previous modules has brought up:
- Collections
- Over-thinking
- A useful reminder on the double-diamond
- Consider other formats: sound and movement, as well as just visual.
- Method or Methodology?
- Trillion Dollar Campaign – a perfect way to illustrate an issue
- Week 10 – Type and Page could go further? Giving things further meaning – compare war poets then ’til now. War itself hasn’t changed but how we go about it has. Are the effects of war the same?
- Approach things differently
- Self Initiated Week 1 – Possible number 4, design workshops. Too close to the festival idea?
- Self Initiated Week 4…
- Accept & Proceed – They want to ‘design for good’, and to work with good people. They want to discover, as an agency, what can they do to help situations.
- Their process is to look at a project from three different angles: from their own point of view, the client’s point of view and most importantly, the point of view of the consumer.
David Carson – “Experiment, have some fun”, this frame of mind brings better ideas because at least you must be enjoying yourself – not getting bogged down in thinking what the outcome will be.”
Perfect…
Revisit Week 10?
DUFFY, Carol Ann. 2009. ‘Exit Wounds: Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy Commissions War Poetry for Today’. the Guardian [online]. Available at: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/jul/25/war-poetry-carol-ann-duffy [accessed 12 Nov 2020].
War Poetry
Set the poems to compliment their meaning (look @ ‘Visual Writing’ Wilfred Owen print from earlier module)
- Owen
- Sassoon
- Other? – FB page for female war poets
Contact:
- Modern day poets
- Male & Female poets
- Both sides of conflict? Find availability…
- Past war associations
- FB page owners
What’s the ‘theory’?
Common language?
- Keywords
- Analogue -vs- digital presentation
- Gas attack/IED
- Decoding – enigma, runners, radar, etc.
- Glorification of war -vs- experiences described in the poetry (though it’s not an exercise in reducing that ‘glorification’, don’t remove the pride of the veterans)
Outcome?
- Book & prints – screen print (with physical items from Flanders field, etc. – re. Craig Oldhams coal dust thing but not)
- Digital presentations – screens, online, social media. Think on anonymous Manifesto which appeared on the ideas wall.
- Exhibition showing this contrast?
What would be the write-up?
Ask…
Reflection
Nah…
I can’t stop/help thinking of the outcome rather than what the brief should be. I’m trying to find an interest which could bring a project. I’ve discovered that I don’t have many interests!
I’ve looked back over our previous modules to find a suitable start-point or at least the hint of one.
My writing and responses are still surprisingly relevant considering what we’ve been through on the course so far; research and exploration had become foreign to me, writing about findings and reasoning why had all but faded away. But the things I’d written about, the skills I hoped to get back (or probably learn) have been addressed more than ever. This was what was supposed to happen, so…
My existing blog posts (from Industry Set onwards) now seem to be one step ahead.
Now it’s just finding something to test them all together. Here goes; week 2.
