Today in class we focused mainly on how to design and develop brief for particular projects. The very first concept that we had to explore was a backpack for everyday university use. Before we started to draw anything we jotted down ideas of what the backpack should hold inside it. These objects included our lunch, laptop, cords, drink, raincoat, books and a few others. We grouped these into categories that defined where they would sit in the back, for example, you would not want to have the drink bottle and laptop close together as the laptop might get wet. By doing this, it really helped us establish how our bag would look like. I liked this exercise because for me it is always hard to find a starting point for a design. By writing down these details it gave me an idea about how I should go about drawing the bag. Andy went on to say that when designing things, we should use knowledge of what we already know. It is always to weigh up the pros and cons of new ideas to test their suitability.
We were also asked to design some kind of emergency housing. This was an extremely relevant topic to discus as all around the world we have been experiencing disasters such as in Japan where thousands of people are without an homes. Houses have to be transportable and have appropriate conditions for an entire family. Once again, we summed up what we thing should be in a house. Eg, lighting, power, bed, toilet, shower etc etc. However I thought a major problem was that some families are extremely large. Thus making a larger facility harder to transport. To avoid this problem, I thought it would be a good idea to develop a house that could break apart. Talking about this subject reminded me of a topic that we discussed in our Intro to Creative tech paper. It made me think about 'container houses' that use shipping containers to shelter people. These in fact work extremely well and are cheap and affordable. There is already infrastructure around these containers as they are frequently loaded on and off vessels to transport overseas.
Lastly we talked about changing the English alphabet into something that is more understandable. Im sure many of us would agree that some of the English language is questionable. Andy talked about the use of C and K. Do we really need both? Do they simply just complicate the language? We noted down each letter of the alphabet and made decisions as to which letters and combinations actually needed to exist. It made me think about the i before e except after c rule. For so long I have been confused about this rule. Because half the words in the dictionary don't follow this rule at all. I think that it is of no importance at all. All it does is create unnecessary grammatical errors.
Today in class we focused mainly on how to design and develop brief for particular projects. The very first concept that we had to explore was a backpack for everyday university use. Before we started to draw anything we jotted down ideas of what the backpack should hold inside it. These objects included our lunch, laptop, cords, drink, raincoat, books and a few others. We grouped these into categories that defined where they would sit in the back, for example, you would not want to have the drink bottle and laptop close together as the laptop might get wet. By doing this, it really helped us establish how our bag would look like. I liked this exercise because for me it is always hard to find a starting point for a design. By writing down these details it gave me an idea about how I should go about drawing the bag. Andy went on to say that when designing things, we should use knowledge of what we already know. It is always to weigh up the pros and cons of new ideas to test their suitability.
We were also asked to design some kind of emergency housing. This was an extremely relevant topic to discus as all around the world we have been experiencing disasters such as in Japan where thousands of people are without an homes. Houses have to be transportable and have appropriate conditions for an entire family. Once again, we summed up what we thing should be in a house. Eg, lighting, power, bed, toilet, shower etc etc. However I thought a major problem was that some families are extremely large. Thus making a larger facility harder to transport. To avoid this problem, I thought it would be a good idea to develop a house that could break apart. Talking about this subject reminded me of a topic that we discussed in our Intro to Creative tech paper. It made me think about 'container houses' that use shipping containers to shelter people. These in fact work extremely well and are cheap and affordable. There is already infrastructure around these containers as they are frequently loaded on and off vessels to transport overseas.
Lastly we talked about changing the English alphabet into something that is more understandable. Im sure many of us would agree that some of the English language is questionable. Andy talked about the use of C and K. Do we really need both? Do they simply just complicate the language? We noted down each letter of the alphabet and made decisions as to which letters and combinations actually needed to exist. It made me think about the i before e except after c rule. For so long I have been confused about this rule. Because half the words in the dictionary don't follow this rule at all. I think that it is of no importance at all. All it does is create unnecessary grammatical errors.
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