good way to explore what interests you and what do you want to change and design out
After understanding the brief and some reading/research, it’s time to establish your own brief, more specific and detailed.
Literature Reading
a good pathway to understand a theme in details
a method accompanying the whole design process. One reads books on the field which he is interested in and finds details which he may neglect or ignored and thus help generated the design idea better.
Ideation Drawing
brings out imaginative possibilities and helps to think wilder which opens up the way of not only drawing but also mind
left hand
right hand
finger move
wrest move
elbow move
one project
From left to right-how can a screwdriver turn into a pliers
what an object do at night
my dream place: my personal car park where I have all labels cars and a helicopter, a fountain as well
Environmental Behavior
analyze/detect the beneath truth after collecting evidences by looking at physical environments/traces. However, you need to be quick since traces are sometimes easy to be removed
Public Message
Along the corridors of RHB, many posters can be observed while in other locations there is less. There are official files like the time schedule for lectures as well as ads like housemate wanted/exchange/new activities flyers. These places are supposed to display information. And you can also get an answer that more people would take this path.
Displays of self:
In toilets, either in RHB or library, you can see all kinds of tattoo. Some drawings are really interesting. People use the toilets wall as a place to share their ideas (though it is not good for the facilities).I don't know if it is because they can do it more easily in toilets since no one will see and judge or even fine. But in library ground floor there are more tattoos than in the upper floor. Maybe more people use toilets in ground floor?
Adaptation for use:
You can see from this photo on the left side, there is a dog thinking of climbing the ladder to reach the window, also the paper with the human face and girl with mouth biting something. It’s quite nice to see the drawer combine the props along with her art work.
Obeservation
useful if one wants to collect data of people’s behavior and its relationship to the environment; reorganize ideas; I also used this method in the TAZ and Space of Production project.
I observed neat the RHB café and tried to draw people’s path after they get refreshments and the proportions of amount of people going to bookshop compared to café. I used cups to present people having coffee/tea and circles as pass by.
Bodystorming
Storytelling like a movie preview. used in a group condition where more imagination happen and errors can be easily found out and fixed. Give the user a general idea and be more excited to explore the narratives. Imagining what it would be like if the product (design) existed, and act as though it exists, ideally in the place it would be used, the method helps to evaluate the design and to adjust and explore future usages.
In this session, we stand in a line according to height and then form a group of six people. Then we designed a fictional film scripts. Afterward, we outlined the story and picked one pivot scene(5 mins) from the movie and played it out. Our movie is a traditional American story with family, murders, affairs and psychological people. This method is called Body Storming, similar to brainstorming but with physical actions.
Cultural Probe
working as a group to know better ways of present things and inspired by each other. I also used the sound recording method in Space of Production project.
In Cultural Probe-living room & activities, four people work in a group to think of present the living room and the activities inside it. Layout designs using logos, stickers to indentify favorite places, events photos, color choose, sound recording, I have this table.
Reservoir
poetic research method can be come from ‘hunch’ searching while conventional method focuses on research, more scientific based. Helps knowledge on the differences of scientists and designers’ ways of exploring and helps to understand design process better
We are asked to detail: What is hunch? Hunch is a intuition getting out of a sudden while afterwards more are still needed to be explored in a more search way.
Dynamic Description
help to know different ways of doing a thing and how one’s preconception could lead into a wrong way.
In Dynamic Description, two people work in a pair: one people acts while the other draws what he is doing.
Objects in Performance
an accident way of generating the relationships of two objects. When putting together, the normal view can be challenged. When idea stuck, this way can bring out former things new life. It is not a overall thinking like the thinking things model while all aspects are viewed and made connections but it is still an interesting way to see things.
This installation Objects in Performance reinterprets the ‘Cabinet of Curiosities’ in a contemporary vein, exchanging the scientific taxonomy of museum displays for a theatrical staging of the objects, offering us an alternative basis for their interpretation and appreciation. I put the indigenous below seeing the totem with his hands hanging around his head. For the indigenous: What he is doing now? Is he doing a religious activity during a ceremony? Or is the man a bad guy since totem feels very shining that he feels himself guilty? For totem: Is the guy just a god over viewing the commons? Or the god smile wickedly showing no mercy of the lives of commons?
Site Exploration
helps people explore the chosen place. It is always more alluring when you give people little hints and set a task to fulfill than to explain the details by yourself. It’s like the objective studying VS passive studying. While people have more fun and achievements when they find the answers themselves and think they are the one who know most.
the Origami
folded book
the hyper wheel
Cuttlefish Modeling
a whole new way of modeling techniques. Interesting and easily approachable
In Martin’s lectured, we leaned a new way of modeling, usually used for jewelry, the Cuttlefish Modeling.
Thinking Things
It is a process model which helps one to identify ideas clearly and think about the relationships when ideas stuck. The top label, here ethic, can be replaced by anything that one thinks to be top important. One can makes own thinking things model according to different design objects.
Thinking Things is a 3d model which has different aspects as time, space, people, ethic, etc. Link the string between two specific items, e.g. material and time. Then one draws and acts thing in sketch to explore potentials.
Diffusion EBook
draw-upload-online-print
A good tool to publish and communicate ideas to each other
http://diffusion.org.uk/
