My choice is between Object & Context and Digital Futures.
Unit ends, 6-9th of May, the aim is to create and event to draw students and staff in to see what you have researched/practiced.
Object & Context.
3 projects throughout the option. The tutor, Ian has in the past designed objects for other people. He says it is all about the context. Objects don’t exist without context. Ian designed a compass for children which rather than having specific measurements on it it would just draw small, medium and large circles. Kids are more interested in drawing any sized circle rather than a specific sized circle. You have to design the experience you want the person to have. Freedom ought to make you more creative but limitations/constraints are in fact the things that make you more creative.
Ian is a collector. You have to shift the context to have a new perspective - clay cup = plastic cup. In India, some guy collected light bulbs as he liked the object for it’s aesthetic quality, yet he didn’t have electricity to use the bulb for it’s designed purpose. Ian’s father was one of the illustrators of the eye spy books.
Emotional response is the prime motivation, the value of things is hidden. (Get Your Bits Out - maybe the exhibition is about the stories rather than the objects - see Peter liversidge)
Reading objects - urban semiotics constructing narratives.
Scenario modelling - design user experience / close observation / after dance
Incorporation - modify / practice / feasibility
1 - Photographing things. What is the difference between an artist and a designer doing these things?
2 - In house out of house difference
3 - 3-4 weeks propose a feasibility study
Digital Futures.
Collaborative or individual, but at the end of the option you have to share your work in a digital symposium at the architecture shed which will open in february and will have between 60 to 100 creative business’ in.
- Sustainability is important, cities, communication, craft, development, exploration, narratives etc
- Scaleless, seamless, edgeless
- Staff research, hacking knitting machines
- Preparing you for jobs that don’t exist
Diginmmu - education, business, research.
Alex Russel - Textile Designer.
Printed textiles and surface pattern. Generative practice exploiting randomness using actions in photoshop and illustrator. Repeatless project - coding in processing cloth of gold being generated as we speak.
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