Week 2:
Evaluation of work and personal objectives
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?
Ideas Wall – Weeks 1-2
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Nope…
The new brief is: there is no brief…?
Currently, I’ve none of the above to carry out this week’s suggested tasks. Looking for a problem to solve? The personal objective for this week is to find a variety of subjects which might bring some answers.
Chatting with Susanna, notes below.
Peer group webinar – 01/10/20
Notes below.
Further thought
What interests?
- Cycling (https://www.shropshirelive.com/news/2020/08/11/shropshire-council-submits-2m-bid-to-improve-cycling-and-walking-facilities/)
- Brief/no brief
- Look how lockdown has affected the way we live – what was a ‘trend’: shop local to support small business, growing your own food, etc. has become the norm out of necessity.
Is there something in there?
Further thought
Still on the same track, the two points above are huge in scale: name anything you’d like to do, what’s right/wrong with cycling and what’s happened to everyone during a global lockdown.
The last one would be impossible without resources – mainly images to illustrate the scene.
Reflection
These are two weeks I’d rather forget than reflect on. I’m finding it challenging to nail down a concept which involves all of the things I’ve learned so far.
I’m aiming to build an entrepreneurial/business-based project rather than an academic/research paper. So I’m thinking more about the outcome being a benefit to my practice by being a strong visual result. A project that can be used for a re-launch to be noticed. Promote as a piece of design on a larger scale, rather than just a new project online.
I’m thinking of what I can do to solve something which isn’t there yet. Onwards and, hopefully upwards, into weeks 3 & 4 we go…
