Eventually I have got to the end of a somewhat hectic first week back at university. During the week I have been busy with numerous lectures and tasks. As well as this my class visited Arbroath on Tuesday on a drawing trip, which will hopefully help to prepare us for a project, which we are beginning on Monday. I also visited Tentsmuir and Tayport on Friday with some friends to collect relevant drawn information and photographs.
In design studies we have been put in to interdisciplinary groups in which we will have assignments to complete. This week we were asked to meet with our group and discuss a list of topics on which we will each write a 1500 word Wiki entry. Below are some photographs taken at the meeting we held on Thursday afternoon at 1.30pm in the graphic design studio.
Everyone attended the meeting and we discussed the topics. We could each choose our own topic but no 2 people in the group could write about the same topic. I think we all struggled to decide what topic we wanted to do and some people were very indecisive and had 2 or 3 options. This is probably because we had little time to research the options prior to the meeting. After some brief discussion we settled on the following topics:
Samantha: Fair trade & design
Natalie: Design process & design (also interested in Culture & design and Art & Design)
Sarah: Gender & design
David: Interactivity & design
Robert: Co-design & design
Sean: Mass production & design
Sophie: Corporate identity & design
Collette: Branding & design
We finished the meeting by swapping blog addresses, and deciding that those who don’t have a blog will need to create one by our next design studies lecture on Wednesday and provide the other group members with the address. We also agreed to mind map our selected topic and perhaps begin gathering sources before our meeting next Thursday.
