In the first part of the Lecture, we talked about how as an individual have been asked in the Studio to commence several different aims to complete our project. However, we had to think about were aims come from.
‘Aims / To communicate ideas through images, words, layout, sequence… / To engage in weekly, sustained research to build up a folder of visual and text-based references on defined theme / To make a record of ideas and responses / To show evidence of contextual and theoretical awareness / To identify an approach / enquiry in relation to the topic / To develop, test, and resolve solution(s) that meet the brief / Reflect…’
Evaluating your project allows us to look at possible to solutions to help you correct your work, to allow you to get the best possible outcome. Evaluation means:
‘It is an idea that can grow with your interest’
Creativity is
‘The generation, development and transformation of ideas that are both novel and useful for solving problems’
This means that old ideas can be created into new idea, creativity is created by solving problems. A quote that allows to understand how creativity is so important is from the handbook of Creativity by Thomas B Ward:
‘the capacity for creative thought is the rule rather than the exception in human cognitive functioning…’
After this we looked how we could tackle being stuck and how we can create different ideas that will help us in our project.
Four Method Process -
Preparation – This is looked at carefully considered, as the resources that you need to gather will help you to complete your task or project.
Incubation – Looking at ideas, to help with the consideration of the problem you need to overcome and face.
Illumination – Theses are the possible solutions that can be used to solve the problem you are going to looking at.
Verification – The solutions that you come up with need to be tested, after this you can use them to work with if they’re working.
‘Where can you find ideas? / Have you got an entry point into your topic? / Something that intrigues you and can start a direction or train of thought, a discussion, an argument, an investigation; this could be a theory, an image, a scene from a film or novel, chapters titles in books, a quote…) / Is there a problem or issue that needs to be identified first’
Once we had look at how to find ideas, we had to think about what we could produce to solve our problems from where we could find ideas, the outcomes were:
• Attributes List
• Mindmaps
• Synetics
• Moodboards
• Brainstorming
• Brain Writing
• Prototypes
I found that this Lecture was very helpful, as it allowed me to explore into different areas that I wouldn't normally look in to find an idea that will allow me to produce different areas of research.
