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CCDN 331 Project 4
The creative manifestation of my manifesto on open-mindedness is made to encourage people to be more open-minded by opening them to another person’s way of thinking. The user is given the opportunity to give their opinion on a topic but can only hang up their paper if they take someone else’s opinion away them. This paper also doubles as promotional material and has a quote about open-mindedness on one side.
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Some initial iterations of the form for people to hang their opinions on. I chose wire for these sketch models as I wanted the form to be reasonably minimal - it shouldn’t be the focus point of the design.
Some other options I may explore are...
Some sketching and brainstorming for the creative manifestation of project four.
Through my manifestation I want to encourage people to be more open-minded. I want this to be interactive and to involve a number of people, so my initial plan is for an installation that allows people to share their opinions on a topic, but only if they look at someone else’s opinion too. This anonymous swapping of thoughts gives people the chance to articulate what they think while also opening them up to the opinions of others.
“A GENTLE PUSH TO STOP BEING SO STUBBORN”
In a world where people often think you have to be stubborn and aggressively focused to achieve your goals, we should redefine the way we approach problems and success. If our aims are for a linear, short term form of success, then the current approach of stubbornness is fine- but I think that the benefits of working this way are minimal. Design should be focused on people but if designers are stubborn there can be the tendency for their designs to be selfish. If design is more open-minded then it gives designers and the world the freedom to learn and grow without the fear of failure or judgement.
Be open-minded about your skills and knowledge. It is okay not to know everything- nobody does. You will save a lot of time and your designs will be more resolved if you admit when you're in too deep and ask for advice. Design has the ability to influence people so it is irresponsible as a designer to design without getting to know the full picture first.
Be open-minded about your approach to designing There's always a different way to think about what you're designing, who you're designing for, and how your design is received. Every situation is different so your approach to designing for these situations will need to be different.
Be open-minded about opinions - both yours and others. Accept criticism and compliments, but also take both with a grain of salt. Never get too comfortable with what you think and try to understand why others may think differently.
Be open-minded about people. People can be unpredictable and they may not interact with your design in the way you think they should. There is nothing wrong with this and you should embrace the variety that the world throws at you.
Be open-minded about new things. Your design will never be truly innovative if you don't challenge your current way of thinking and doing.
Sources:
Spiegel, J. S. (2012). Open-mindedness and intellectual humility. Theory and Research in Education, 10(1), 27–38. http://doi.org/10.1177/1477878512437472
Marinucci, R. (2011, December). Effectively Responding to Critics. Fire Engineering, 164(12), 24–25.
For project 2 of CCDN 332, I had to research an issue I was interested in and write my own brief for a way to solve that issue (in the next project I will be implementing that brief and building the app)
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CCDN 331 Project Three (Planning)
Essay topic - design + waste production
Thesis statement - Design should ideally look to not just minimise waste production, but to eliminate it entirely.
FINAL PHOTO ESSAY
An important aspect of being a flaneur is the desire to experience a city in a new and potentially unexpected way. In this photo essay, I aimed to take photos of Wellington’s urban spaces that showed off parts of the city that seemed out of place – and that you might not have noticed if you weren’t looking for them. This is because these odd, almost surreal aspects are often small, so don’t overpower their more standard surroundings. Guy (2007) believes that "anti-septic, controlled urban environments do not provide the excitement many urbanites desire, and yet a restless and uncontrolled cityscape produces much more unsavory sensorial experiences." The moments of interest that I have tried to capture in my photo essay are an important part of creating this balance between functional and interesting in a city – while some of these spaces can be seen as ‘useless’ because of their lack of function, they play a vital part in adding to a city’s overall character. Guy (2007) is of the opinion that it is the contrast between these two sides of a city that makes wandering through it a unique and worthwhile experience. Through this photo essay, I hope to make people question how they view the city in their day-to-day lives – are they drawn to the odd details that punctuate the urban space around them, or do they only see what they need to see?
Guy, S. (2007). Discipline and disruption: making senses of the city. The Senses and Society, 2(2), 247+.
These are the images I am considering using for my final photo essay. I think I will need to retake the two vertical photos so that they can be horizontally oriented like the others (they don’t really fit in currently).
My draft haiku is:
do you see the grids / and the lines or do you see / what is between them
I’m not currently planning to have a soundtrack, but if I change my mind, the soundtrack will be minimal and evoke a slightly eerie feeling (I would most likely use a sound like wind, rather than music)
Updated critical perspective
My original critical perspective was about how people use (or don’t use) spaces in unexpected ways, but the photos I have taken don’t have much of an emphasis on the effect of people on spaces. The photos do still capture the unexpected though, so the main change in my critical perspective is just a lesser focus on people. Instead, I am trying to capture odd, out of place things in public spaces that you might not have noticed if you weren’t looking out for them.
The second selection of photos from the past week. The hippopotamus one is one of my favourites so far and definitely captures the surreal feeling I was hoping for.
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Some of the photos I've taken in the past week (part 1).
The most successful images from my first shoot were the ones with a slightly surreal feel to them, so this week I focused on photographing things that were a bit odd and out of place.
Jane Jacobs' 1958 article about city planning raises some interesting points that I think are still relevant today. She argues that trying to synthetically redesign a city is bound to be unsuccessful in the long term. She believes that because of all the variables present, you can't just copy something that was popular elsewhere and expect it to work in the same way. Instead of having a grand idea of what you want a city to be, you should look at what the city already has, and how people best interact with it. This relates to my critical perspective as Jacobs believes people have the final say in how a space is used - "Downtown has had the capability of providing something for everybody only because it has been created by everybody."
citation: Jacobs, J. (1958, April). Downtown is for People. Fortune Magazine.
The second selection of images from my first shoot.
The haiku that will accompany my final images should communicate the sense of change that will be present in the photos. I’m not sure about the soundtrack yet - it could follow the same idea as the haiku, although it’s hard to tell until I can see all the final images together.
This is the first of two selections of images from my first shoot for assignment two - a photo essay. The critical perspective I’m approaching this photo essay with is:
A common theme that I came across in the readings was that of people reclaiming spaces by using them in a way they were not initially designed to be used for. Inspired by this, my photo essay will try to capture spaces that, in whatever minute way, are being used differently to how they were first used. I won't be specifically looking for ways that people have reclaimed a space - I'm focusing more generally on the effect that people and/or nature have on spaces. This relates to my design ideals because I believe you should always consider the impact of your design (in this case, the design of a space), while also remaining open to your design being interpreted differently to how you anticipated.
This is the video my group made in support of the statement ‘Design should inspire people to see the world in a new way’
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