November 2010
3 posts
Portraits →
Final task
Now we have finished our London task we are onto our final task of this project which is to reflect what yo have learnt or how you can improve over the seven weeks. From this after some brainstorming (which can be found on the page) I decided to take inspiration from portraits
What inspires you about London? →
October 2010
20 posts
“Artistic research, also seen as ‘practice-based research’, can take...”
– Wikipedia
“Research: The word research derives from the French recherche, from rechercher,...”
– Wikipedia
“An attempt to find out in a systematically and scientific manner”
– Word Net Web
Week Four!
Now in our forth week of design methods, we have moved onto our next question…
What is Research?
Task Two: Interview a building! →
“using imagination and expressing oneself in art forms.”
“The experience of thinking, reacting, and working in an imaginative and...”
“is the ability to produce something new, to generate unique approaches and...”
“the capacity to produce something which is both unique and useful”
“Creativity is a mental process involving the discovery of new ideas or concepts,...”
– Wikipedia
Week two!
We are now in our second week of Design Methods and have been issued with our second question …
What is creativity?
Task One: Litter! →
Collect and Present 20 pieces of litter.
Click on title for direct link to Project!
What is Design?
“Design is everywhere - and that’s why looking for a definition may not help you grasp what it is.
Design is everywhere. It’s what drew you to the last piece of furniture you bought and it’s what made online banking possible.
It’s made London taxi cabs easier to get in and out of and it made Stella McCartney’s name.
It’s driving whole business cultures...
“initiate change in man-made things”
– Jones, J.C. (1970) “Design Methods and Technology: Seeds of Human Futures”
“Design is that area of human experience, skill and knowledge which is concerned...”
– Archer, B (1973) “The Need for Design Education.” Royal College of Art
“Synthesis… the process of combining objects or ideas into a new complex...”
September 2010
2 posts
Journals... Key points...
Key points to think about when creating my journal are to include;
Research, Ideas, Sketches, Observations, Lecture notes, Photographs, Cuttings, Screen shots and Quotes.
Questions, Questions?
We started Design Methods today Part 1: Questions, Questions?
Every week we will be given a question to think about and to base our tasks around.