MA Project: Phase 3 – Design Development

Weeks 15-16 I spent some time working on the structure and design of my workshop. In particular I used the idea of the Change Cards, and rewrote the questions to form a basis for an exercise to start creative thinking about feminism. I used the idea of looking at things differently to come up with

History and Futures: Week 11 – Design and Develop

The lecture this week was interesting to hear from a service design studio. Both George and Jonathan come from different backgrounds and now work with an interdisciplinary team, of researchers, designers and innovators. Their aim is to tackle problems and issues surrounding ageism, and do so through service design, different research processes and ways of

History and Futures: Week 8 – Design and Critique

I looked into self-publishing, crowd-funding and making independent short films this week. Crowdfunding can help you create something unadulterated and uncompromised, provided you can raise the money. A good crowdfunding campaign needs to attract backers and can be very time-consuming. It is easier to find a group of people who are passionate about a subject

Week 12 – Outcome and Ambition

RESEARCH AND REFLECTION: Evaluating your project after it has finished can be a valuable way to learn, not only from any mistakes you may have made, but also from what went right. It’s important to consider what went wrong and what went right, whether it was successful, for the client and the user, and solved

Week 2: Ideas, Craft and Context

RESEARCH AND REFLECTION: Everyone has different ways of reproaching and developing their ideas, from collaboration and bouncing ideas off other people, to lots of research which can then send you off to different perspectives and trigger different visual ideas. The main thing I took from this lecture is to do a lot of research –

Week 1: Brief Analysis

RESEARCH AND REFLECTION: My research and thinking on this week’s resources began with why we do self-initiated projects. Some of the designers I looked at seemed to use self-initiated projects as a way to add to their portfolio, and as something to work on to stay creative and possible make an income when commercial work

Building new models and tools for Future Practice – Week 8

So over the last few weeks I’ve looked at collaboration and seen the benefits – bringing out the best in people, creativity, curiosity, efficiency, everyone learns more, the process can be quicker and something amazing and greater than the whole is the product. I’ve learned that collaboration takes place at every stage of a project,