This week we reviewed the content from the submission of the Learning Plans.
Learning Plan - Clear in own learning
How to construct an easy to navigate document
WIRED - Do you read? - Steve Jobs - Sense of debate
Some of the articles say someone is wrong
Bibliography
Literature Review - dates is crucial, website visited date
capture when an idea was first identified
Look through a publication over 20 years
BOOK: HOW TO TALK ABOUT BOOKS YOU HAVEN'T READ
Shared thinking / Source thinking
How do people learn in School
BOOK: WHERE GOOD IDEAS COME FROM
Steven Johnson, writes in Wired Magazine
Good ideas coming out of collisions
Ideas happen by chance
Keep talking about power of collaboration
What happen now?
Learning Plan, beginning of research project, prototyping/conceptual models
Seamless transition / CARD / Things new are going to grow
Reflection on BA / Separate modules / emphasize specialisations
Long plan - MA Level - hybridity - combining disciplines
possible collaborations:
Special effects+Language = Film
Graphic Design/Communication+Language = Poster/Print
Broadcast Futures+Language=Programme
Fashion+Language=Clothing
3D Film+Language=Film
Interior Design+Language=Furniture
Attach meaning from projects
*Adrian - naval space, architecture, why am I doing Broadcast Futures?
PG01 - Backbone
- links in with other PG modules
Initially first section has a mixture of certain people and uncertain people
Learning Plans - Different navigation methods
'Systematic' + 'Tenacious'
Richie's Learning Plan - Use of the words: 'It's not good enough'
Karl - Going to RCA
use of the word sublime, needs busy environments
MA - dedicated space
legal action - Facebook, Tutor remarked on partying
mini-debate - contextual studies > Facebook
Should not be invaded
Jeremy - writing endorsements - people - LinkedIn
Bill - has to finish projects
Facebook - accessible - students checking in
Things we could do - Sim city
Are we doing things together / or in our own spaces?
Katie - important to walk whilst thinking
Thinking within noise
'Mavericks' - Rave on Air - cannot have work on main screen, so in reaction they bring in their own
Innovation - different between having a style and noise
Hybrid nature of learning - sources
old fashioned forms of thinking:
Stefan Sagmeister
Neville Brody
Bruce Mau
Current sources
Classic sources
John Hartfield - Photomontages of the Nazi Period
Dada movement reacted against the 1st world war
anti-nazi movement opinion - Werkmann - Printing on letterpress
Hand to mouth spreading leaflets and posters.
Used the print furniture at the same surface
Memories of the past - 2 books to add on booklist
looking at obsession - Alfred Wainwright
mapping the countryside
Contemporary icons - Consists more of groups rather than individuals
'Aid Demographics' - Group who started protests
- changed the culture of America
'Action Machine' - Lesbian movements
These groups are hybrids, put themselves out as voices against broadcast powers
Hybrids - impracted on culture
Bibliographies - show where thinking is going
Keep evolving the literature reviews
'John Luc Goddard' - French new-wave (Swiss citizen)
can put people's thinking into boxes
Actually wealthy and not like the movement he sought to motivate.
Researcher goes into the life someone has hid
Period - ideas considered dangerous
Film maker - Albania. Switch off transmission - 2012
switching television, revolution
Also in 2012 - Sundance - 10 day festival at 02
Spend 30% day daydreaming, best time of the day
observation, questioning things
'Sherry Turkle'- 15/20 years of research 'Alone/Together'
for tech/not against tech/research with students at MIT
Questions but does not condemn
Did research into social networking
Have to think questions about whether technology is the driver/or people are the driver of changes.
Important of Testing
Action - Chinese government - testing satelites, military
Think about consequences / Test the idea / in Learning Plan
repeated testing
Who do you test idea on? / Target consumer
receiver. Attitudes from a particular group
Revisit Tent City - You people get a job
People who are dyslexic - walking fast / hearing conservative
What is a job?
What is a focus group? - selected with creative criteria?
Osmosis - meeting someone different
Kieran's learning plan - poetry/forests/tv/poetic way of thinking about relationship between Technology and Nature
Laura - what is the celebration of humanity? - the end of nature?
**Talk about the 'bibliography' as a living thing**
not seen as static, always evolving
Beware of being pompous, leighton cafe, listening to conversations.
places for good conversations
Caroline's Learning Plan - Examples
When we use the term 'Cinema' what are we talking about? - theatre/new and imagined spaces?
Example: Key questions I would like to ask?
Ask for opinion on learning plan?
different answers - questions
Technology can make people out of work
speakers, for cinema
Ethical/moral dimension - how does the question affect people?
People changing their ways of working? Key question about technology: Will it make us happier?
Anti-technology - Luddites movement
Look for extra edge of critical reflection
banana skins 'storytelling'
questions - what does that mean about me?
A natural history science project
Where are we going to with the learning plan?
Books - is there a forward plan? - next 4 weeks, and beyond.
Gap between aspirations and speed to capture enough information to answer the question
What are you going to produce - next year / second year
Production of the prototype of a concept
Skylon-ride
Getting a hand on the journey
Ability to listen to each other
MSc Applied Technologies - seminar at RCA
- relationship between 3D scanning and traditional printmaking - in Jan/April 2012
'Challenge debate'
Example where Rave students challenged norms and debate at the NFT
Find spaces, find out from agegroup
Fashion - check through learning plan - Brianna
'You make it what you want to make it'
Show my learning plan to others
Driving deep the roots of research
Example of the 'Cooler house' - safe area
Step outside of the comfort zone / Am I prepared to fail?
What is going on at Ravensbourne?
Apply 'Tenacity' in arranging interviews
Richie - Determined to arrange interviews
Maria
Karel - organising seminar
Adrian - revisited learning plan - desktop interface
hybrid nature
Do what I want !
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Where from here?
New books and sources
New events and visits
New collaborations
New experimentations
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