INB182reflection

Apr 14

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Apr 13

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After adjourning for the day, the next day two members came back with an idea of a ‘purity sphere’ It started out as a simple idea of a quartz sphere with a black dot in the centre of it, representing the impurity of everyone, since no one is perfect. This idea evolved into it being a black rod, representing that as the sphere is moved around and as you look from different angles, the rod can look like anything from the small dot, to the long rod. This representing how different points of view can impact how much of a negative light someone is viewed in. (This and the rest of the symbolism can be seen on the picture). Having to develop this idea, from a small budding thing into a blossoming flower of creation gave us all insight into how hard it can be, and yet at other times how easy, to try to convey ideas and emotions in one of the simplest forms. With a light, a sphere and a rod. Just three items in its core, which are contained but yet they represent so much. This helped us understand the design process, and one of the reasons why you cannot put it down to a list of logical axioms, even when taking in as many variables as possible.

After adjourning for the day, the next day two members came back with an idea of a ‘purity sphere’ It started out as a simple idea of a quartz sphere with a black dot in the centre of it, representing the impurity of everyone, since no one is perfect. This idea evolved into it being a black rod, representing that as the sphere is moved around and as you look from different angles, the rod can look like anything from the small dot, to the long rod. This representing how different points of view can impact how much of a negative light someone is viewed in. (This and the rest of the symbolism can be seen on the picture). Having to develop this idea, from a small budding thing into a blossoming flower of creation gave us all insight into how hard it can be, and yet at other times how easy, to try to convey ideas and emotions in one of the simplest forms. With a light, a sphere and a rod. Just three items in its core, which are contained but yet they represent so much. This helped us understand the design process, and one of the reasons why you cannot put it down to a list of logical axioms, even when taking in as many variables as possible.

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The pig exercise was an experiment in uncovering more about one person in your team (As you are likely standing in clumps by now) and also about yourself through your subconcious manipulations of a pig drawing. Upon actually seeing what the pig said about me, it was quite accurate. This was an interesting insight into my own mind as much as it was into the persons who I annotated their pig for, if not more.

The pig exercise was an experiment in uncovering more about one person in your team (As you are likely standing in clumps by now) and also about yourself through your subconcious manipulations of a pig drawing. Upon actually seeing what the pig said about me, it was quite accurate. This was an interesting insight into my own mind as much as it was into the persons who I annotated their pig for, if not more.

The first exercise of finding an object (Our team naturally finding a large tree in the foreground of where we were sitting) and drawing 4 different perspectives of it was challenging for me. The transition from a literal mindset of drawing something with a normal and topdown view, to looking it at in a non literal way, through time or from part of a flying insects view. This helped open my mind to new ways of approaching problems that would no doubt arise (and they did) in the first design project.

The first exercise of finding an object (Our team naturally finding a large tree in the foreground of where we were sitting) and drawing 4 different perspectives of it was challenging for me. The transition from a literal mindset of drawing something with a normal and topdown view, to looking it at in a non literal way, through time or from part of a flying insects view. This helped open my mind to new ways of approaching problems that would no doubt arise (and they did) in the first design project.