Visual Communication Research 2019

This friday was the poster (visual reflection) moment. I had Lee as my 1-1 feedback person and I got some great feedback and encouragement from him to move forward with. Peer feedback:

Following up moments from the Xero grad night event ‘Xero Design - Wellington: Behind the Screens.’ Xero, 22 May 2019, Wellington, Event. 2 Awesome connections came out of this evening: I had a great chat with Peter Montgomery , the Creative Director at Xero, about my project. I sent a follow up message on LinkedIn that night, and have continued the conversation there. (He added his insights to the survey I'd made in week 4.) I also caught up with a previous mentor Kelcey Braine (Brand and Design Specialist at Creative HQ.) She got me in touch with a friend of hers who works as a design teacher in Wellington. Kelcey was kind enough to set up an email introduction and Laura and I have organised to have a coffee catch up Saturday the 8th June. 

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...

Key Feedback ideas/points: Gamifying may just trivialise a very serious issue, be careful with the form of your prototypes. Chrome Toaster precedent Project based learning- giving real world application, understanding the  Really look into my idea of using students as part of the process- bringing them in and giving them autonomy and recognition. "School is the first step into the world."  -Samuel Pitcher. "Teaching something without students realising they're being taught."  -Ryan Walker. Perceptions about specific classes, eg 'gateway'.

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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Today I had a catch up coffee meeting with Phoebe, (a mentor I've had in the past outside of Uni.) It was great to run over where I'm at with someone who has a fresh perspective, and getting some new ideas and clarification for the direction I'll head in now. We went over the research map I'd made earlier with Mark, and discussed the potential and flaws within each area. It was great talking it through, as it drew to light the parts that needed further research and documentation. Phoebe reminded me to go back to the original problem, to refine and develop this in the context of my new research, and then use that to prioritise what to do from there. I need to choose a primary objective, and have secondary ones as well. I don't need to throw away everything else I've been researching, but focus in on one section to prioritise and 'go deep.' We also discussed the scale of my project. So far my research has been quite broad, and as such somewhat vague. ...

What are my next steps? Am I on track? Discussion notes: Cultivate confidence outside of school in order to cultivate inside schools. 70s 60s design change de Bono Design:  Dr. Edward  de Bono  is a Nobel Prize Nominee in Economics and world-renowned for his development and origination of the creative and constructive  design  thinking tools for parallel and creative thinking. The  de Bono  Group, LLC is a world leader in the delivery,  design  and effective results of  de Bono design  methods. What can we learn from creativity theory? Quantitative qualitative battle Motivation improvements from creativity? Research point.... Sternberg- book,  use to find key words 180 it- flip this project idea around? What would happen then? Look at creative theory, practice, technique art therapy  What are the education differences of people in the art system vs people outside? Example project map from Mark- I ne...