10-5 Exercise

Exercise in class writing for 10 minutes about my week 5 poster.

Last week was a valuable experience for me in terms of bringing some more passion and visualization into my project. I initially intended to have a small portion of the poster taken up with illustration and rest with research, but once I started doing the drawings I didn’t want to stop. I found the challenge of making something randomly generated into my own creating incredibly engaging and interesting, and I found that I was able to loosen up and make something much more ‘creative’ that I would have otherwise. In that sense I treated it as an experiment, to prove the power of collaboration with the computer. And it seemed to be a great success, which has motivated me to keep going. I enjoyed actually creating something rather than just research and made me realise that I should incorporate more creative research – research through doing, drawing etc.
I also found that from this I began to bring in a number of tutors who now seem quite passionate and engaged with the idea of my project, and it was great to see ideas being thrown my direction. After the feedback, I got an email with some extra information, and later in the next week, I found a note at my desk with something I should look at from another tutor.