Week 9 - Workshops

Workshop 1: What am I doooing?

An abstract is a condensing of what you’ve already said
OR
The first step and then the last step.

Two modes of editing: additive or subtractive.
Do a lot and then cut it down OR do a bare bones and then add to it.
Painting is additive and sculpting is subtractive.

1. Motivation

Why are you doing this? What have you observed and what are you gonna do about it.

2. Problem Statement

What is the exact problem? Are traffic problems caused by the vehicles or the width of the the road or the people on it? A micro-interaction that could change the tide.

3. The Approach

How are you going to do it? VCD is so big, you could do anything. An app, poster, interaction, user experience, a simulation, a prototype, an installation, social communication, a space. Can be big or small and specific.

4. Results

What do you think the results are gonna be? Validating your explorations will help you get to the next step. What will the results of your thing be? What are people meant to get out of it? How will it affect people? Is it worldwide or is it local? You don’t know the results yet, so pretend that whatever you’re doing is a wild success. Fake it til you make it. (Technically everything we do in school is faking it.)

“The project will explore this…”

Dream up ways you could verify that. Did you start an argument online? That’s a result, a positive. What do you think success is going it look like?

5. Conclusions

Why was it successful? What are the implications of your answer? Are these results general or specific? Could this particular approach be applied to other social issues?

These could be the major chapters of your dossier too.
Technically 4 and 5 won’t come til the end of 454.

Process Summary:

Motivation > Problem statement > Approach > Results > Conclusions
150-200 words


Workshop 2: Skeleton

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