Week 2 - Workshops

Before next week, define your idea in the form of the sentence:
I am a _____________ exploring _____________ design through ____________.
Next week is the first peer to peer showing of our ideas, so we need to have something visual to show, a who/what/where/why of our idea, and an elevator pitch to present it with.

Workshop 1 - Talking about 'things' with Karl and Lee

 There are three categories to a 'thing':

  • Style
    • what does it look like? Modernism, post modernism, ancient, etc
  • Philosophy
    • what is the thought behind it? People focused, for profit, etc
  • Cultural formation
    • what environment produced it? Post WW1, economic boom, high immigration, etc
These three elements combined make the thing. If you change one element, it's not the same thing, even if it still looks like it from the outside.

If it looks like punk and sounds like punk, but doesn't have the philosophy of punk, it isn't really punk.

Consider the context of things you gather for your project. What is the full picture?

Workshop 2 - Kerry Ann Lee

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