Kim's creative blog

Hey I am Naeun from year one Creative Technologies and I will be posting my thinking, ideas design and photos in this blog

What I did:

Played on my ideas based on project brief and requirements

Draw pictures

Learned about prototypes

connecting ideas into prototypes systemic thinking

Discussing my ideas

2. What I want to do:

What could I do to advance my project

Add more structured themes?

How can I make my abstract ideas work: time management & research

물체에 관심 가지기: 자신이 관심 있는 분야, 자주 접하는 장소!

관찰 전 - 관찰 중 - 관찰 후 체크리스트 만들기 -> 관찰 결과를 깔끔하게 정리!

관찰 결과를 자신만의 방법으로 표현하기

새로운 시선으로 관찰하기 (예; 병원에서 환자의 시선으로)

Kill the baby: jot your ideas as fast as possible and tidy them up by trying to connect together

Systemic thinking: how does one aspect affect another aspect, positively or negatively? (tip: use loopy)

I learned that visual essay comes in various forms from the composer’s interests. For example, one of the visual writings I watched was "What Screens Want" by Frank Chimero (2013) which was a long text blog but with the photos between them to support his point. I soon realized that those images actively supports each paragraphs effectively, such as visually examining how our daily objects like telephones became smaller and effective just like the pills.

What is Prototyping and sketching?

They sound same because we both use them to iterate and develop our desired design. However, some research define them differently in terms of the stage of the design.

The procedure of writing the questionnaire for your survey may sound very obvious, but the conductor must consider specific approach for the target audience to answer the question. For instance, we know that the purpose of survey is to mee the research objectives, and obtain most accurate information from interviewees for the project. And in order to do this, we need to define target respondent, question wordings... etc. This is too obvious that one might neglect it and jump straight into developing the research survey question.

However, the blog provided in-depth explanation of the necessary process and method of asking questions. For example, I learnt that

However, the blog provided in-depth explanation of the necessary process and method of asking questions. For example, I learnt that using different types of questions (Open-ended, close-ended, formal, informal) can differ depending on the target audience.

It was interesting to explore the concept of "signal pedagogies" in the #010 blog post. Unlike the other disciplines such as English and science, the pedagogical practice of CT involves collaboration of theories and practical practices. For instance, Creative Technologies have personalized learning spaces in "studio", where the students are allowed to practice and build up their skills by "learning by doing".

The new skills and concepts are introduced by the teaching team to support the student in their skill development, and the students are expected to build up their skills and use it for future studies.

The phase that interests me to learn more in Creative Technologies is "High celling, wide walls, low floor". This basically means CT do not have pre-requests that student need to have certain skills to enter into, and pupils not only can bring whatever skills and prior knowledge they have into CT but also are expected to build new skills. In short, student learn and develop by "learning by doing" principles, with reflection of their learning practices.

What is Creative Technology (CT)? I Immediately thought that CT is playing with modern technologies, such as computers. However, when I researched about the Creative Technologies in our blog entries, I was surprised that the CT has more complex definitions, such as collaborating with other disciplines. 

For example, the main definition that Ricardo discussed about was

“Emergent and playful practice of ‘Sketching with technology’”.

Compared to this game, other games such as Mario Cart series players are guided to participate in driving competition, where they demonstrate how they could beat the other players and maintain the first place while in-game.

I liked the Steven Johnson’s discussion about how the human started to re-create the public places and landscapes, and build the social relationship in there. 

So I have been reading the second blog post about the history of creative technologies and how the technologies evolved with the human activities and their interests.

For example, Johnson (2020) introduces ancient evidences of trading in his talk in wonderland: how play made the modern world. The evidence of the ancient jewelry, cloves, and bone flutes suggests that the global-wise trading was already happening from thousands of years ago, by the traders across the country which drived an important global economy which connected the entire world. This have strong relation to modern world because we could see that the trading have evolved for years to become a large global market, both virtually and physically. 

While reading this, I could see connections with the ‘three circles of main questions in business’. ‘desirability’, ‘viability’, and ‘feasibility’. As the business only succeed when the customer wants to buy the product, and it is sustainable for the future, the global trading of the spices succeeded and expanded to modern world because the people in Africa- who received the spice- enjoyed and loved tasting spices, so that they begin to desire for new tastes.

Therefore, Johnson (2020) argues that the ‘spark of delight’ in every human activities is the driver of the technology evolution and development. 

The example that effectively describes about the human activity and technical evolution would be how the England people started the passion industry from their wool clothes. 

In creative studio paper, we made a papertronics that uses a paper and other materials to light the bulbs up, instead of using a traditional wire, batteries and bulbs.

As you can see in the photo, I used a copper tape, a coin battery, and the single light bulb to represent and light up the object from behind it.

I was surprised about learning this new technology and methods because I only seen much larger electric circuit in science class. It was very inspiring to face and experience new technologies and discuss it with my classmates.