Visual Communication Research 2019

Rapid Ideation Exercise: Random words Some sketch mock ups using random words as inspiration (Inspo words from left, top down: Circle, Broken, Light, Key, Book, Game, Bold, Book x2, Book x3, Water): These are the mini A5 sketch ideas I took into Karl Kane's friday feedback session. When going over these with my peers, we talked about the pros and cons of each. The bottom right two stood out the best, and we talked about combining those into one poster idea. When Karl came around to talk, he quite liked the 'lets turn the page on education' idea. His overall comments were: he liked the ideation process I went through to get to here, he liked the range of ideas, however he mentioned they all took quite a negative tone, they were all quite problem focused not solution focused. He proposed that the 'turn the page' concept would be perfect for combining a positive/ negative, solution/ problem contrast between the layered posters. I love this idea and will develo...

The feedback session from the 1-2-1 this Friday was awesome. I talked with Lee Jensen about how stuck I was feeling with the final 'outcome' and how the idea of an app or website just really wasn't inspiring me, and just doesn't feel right for me or this project. We talked about how my research has (despite my attempts to specify down) remained quite broad and focused on education as a system. Lee was able to validate my hunch that tackling this issue in it's broader sense is probably the most justified approach for this project. However going down this route will be difficult. I'll need to upskill and do a lot of research going deep into this topic. But this will allow me to explore what got me interested in education in the first place. I'll be able to study it as a system, challenging what education is, and why it's currently so restrictive. I could write a manifesto uprooting the traditional expectations of school- why we learn- where we learn...

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Feedback from this presentation: Too broad! Choose an audience- need to be specific. If you're choosing a school, are you being specific to public/ private/ gendered/ religious schools?

'To Do' online list- (link for markers)