what is sense of place?

In this session we gathered in groups with post it notes to discuss what we thought a sense of place meant there were some notes already on the wall which were different categories such as artists, designers and books we had to think of something which related to our sense of place brief but fit under each category. This really helped me think about what was going to go into my research and influenced me heavily.

The Book Of Lies

In today's first studio we created the book of lies which is a computer generated slide show. We started off by filling out a questionnaire where we had to tell one truth and several lies. This was pretty fun being asked to lie, some of the lies were pretty funny. Then we had to have our picture taken to have the lies randomly generated over our portraits. The final result was pretty fun and I really enjoyed this session.

Process and procuction location drawing.

In today session we went out in Huddersfield in groups and given a specific place to draw. My group was given George's square near the train station we had to create visually pleasing drawings to create a map of the area. Down below are some of the drawings that were done and the final map with combined drawings of all the groups.

Theory is practice academic skills and writing styles

Today we had a lecture about academic skills and writing due to out up coming essay we have to write. I found this session useful because I struggle to write academically and the points we covered were extremely useful such as time plans, mind maps and planning and creating a draft of the essay. After this session I feel more comfortable in going forward and writing a well structured essay which makes sense and answers the question.

Theory as practice book research

In today session he had to bring in one piece of information e.g a book or online article. For those who did we had to team up with someone and describe to them what we had bought in. I decided to use the book visual communication which teaches the link between that and theory. The idea of this task was to teach us about detailed writing we could include in our essay so it would become more clear to us what we were going to write in the essay.

We also had another task which was slightly confusing. The task we had was to look at a picture that was projected onto the screen which was of a bear sat on a chair we then had to describe what we saw I'm the form of detailed writing. Once I had completed his task it was clear that this task also helped me understand detailed writing within our essay.

Theory as practice convergence

Today we were talking about convergence and how it can influence and better our work. We started the day with a lecture from another student who was doing his masters and gave us lots of useful information about how convergence can make our work unique.

What is convergence?

convergence is the transition of information so between information being communicated and information being understood. 

some examples convergence are; 

the convergence of different technologies, 

convergence of different ideas, 

convergence of practices/disciplines e.g. graphic design and animation.  

 Later that day we then had a task where he had to think about convergence and use materials such as magazine and news paper cut outs. We had to create something with them which was a great task and helped me understand the convergence between ideas and development.

medium is the message theory as practiced

Medium is the massage a phase coined by Marshall McLuhan, it means that the form of medium embeds itself in any message creating a symbiotic relationship by which the medium influences how the message is perceived.

the book; understanding media; the extensions of man by Marshall McLuhan explains this in more detail. 

for example a message can be printed r placed on something that will make you perceive it in a different way.   

This is an example of medium is the message. its a solar powered billboard advertisement in California its saying "this isn't a billboard" when in a matter of fact it is because its advertising solar power and then it proceeds to say "its a power plant" which technically it is because its producing its own power for its own light. It makes us question what it really is because of the message that is printed onto the billboard.