Design Now + Research Proposal Structure Lecture & Third Advisor Session
Lecture Notes:
Looking At Things - Design Now
Research Proposal
Advisor Session With Caroline Notes:
This was the best advisor session I have had so far. Caroline told me that she has ridden horses on the road before and feels like this issue is very relevant at the moment (we spoke about the news story this week of the man being charged very lightly for hitting a horse and rider; horribly injuring the rider and killing the horse). I feel like because she had a connection to my topic she was able to be far more insightful, helping me mould my rough ideas into a project direction and giving me lots that I can work on over the study break - instead of just saying "great idea, keep working on it" which is how I have feel every other conversation I have had about my major project with other people has gone. I feel reinvigorated about my project and excited to move forward in this slightly new direction.
Looking At Things - Design Now
- Third space/Altermodern - Critical Realism? = Experience + Transformation at the end of that experience
- (See my 'Third Space' notes on this blog from last year for more detail)
- Provenance = Where is something made, by whom, why, and how? Conscious Consumption
- Craving the real/Caring about how things are made and valuing the appeal of handcrafted
- Real Means: Ethical, natural, honest, simple (aiding the user rather than confusing/complicating), un-spun (hearing directly from someone), sustainable, beautiful, rooted (embedded in a community), three-dimensional (being a person, in a place, in a community), human (using human qualities to connect to users)
- What emerges from this is an argument for user-centred design
Research Proposal
- Foreground (Focus, perspective, lens) —- Body —- Conclusion
Advisor Session With Caroline Notes:
- Go at it from a horse's point of view, “I am a prey animal and this predator is coming at me, fast, from behind!”
- Explaining how a horse thinks and feels to help the viewer understand why they need to behave in a certain way etc
- As a human being this is what we think and how we relate to others
- Do research into equine behaviour
- Look for veterinary studies into horses and open roads, crashes etc
- Look on Radio New Zealand for the interview with the lady who was hit by a car while out riding and also look at the news articles about it and use it as an incident study
- Use what’s happening/being done in Britain as a case study
- Then say “I’m a rider and heres what I want to do/think needs to be done differently to gain empathy in New Zealand”
- It’s your own experience but the narrative comes from the horse - an "Equine Experience Narrative"
- This is a very relevant project and I’m coming from a place of personal experience which is great
- Perhaps create something that uses both the stories and the scientific facts (info design?)
This was the best advisor session I have had so far. Caroline told me that she has ridden horses on the road before and feels like this issue is very relevant at the moment (we spoke about the news story this week of the man being charged very lightly for hitting a horse and rider; horribly injuring the rider and killing the horse). I feel like because she had a connection to my topic she was able to be far more insightful, helping me mould my rough ideas into a project direction and giving me lots that I can work on over the study break - instead of just saying "great idea, keep working on it" which is how I have feel every other conversation I have had about my major project with other people has gone. I feel reinvigorated about my project and excited to move forward in this slightly new direction.