Drawing And Design Thinking [DESI08125]
probably the most interesting course I took this yr in uni
Apart from the fact that I was the only guy in my workshops for the most part apart from my tutor and was made fun of for "finally getting to empathise like what girls in stem feel", this was such a refreshingly good course compared to the boring cs one's I usually have to take. Just the amount of diversity in the things you got to do and the ideas and concept you get to see in the workshops was just bonkers. Here's my final portfolio submission of the documentation work I did during the span of this course:
The first week we had to come up with a mark and had to explore concept of a gestural drawing as a self contained form.
Some more gestures other people explored during this
So for this next one we were given the homework of visiting one of the many 2nd hand shops in Edinburgh and acquire an object that you are going to draw and make stories, a comic etc. from over the next few weeks.
We had to interrogate the object but also considering the narrative and function of your object, the context it has come from and the stories we may tell about it
more stuff on what other people worked on
In this part of the project we were asked to collaboratively make a critical and speculative design fiction based on all our collective objects/some of them. This was a group project (prolly the best group project team wise I've ever been in; literally everybody in my team was way more talented than me)
Our presentation pdf (prolly more organized than the super condensed version covered in my portfolio below):
In this next one we were asked to come up with a small positive design action that is actually achievable and we will carry out in the next 2 weeks. It can be a small thing made or done that builds on a bigger picture. Mine was:
In this final project we were asked to individually propose a site-specific design intervention; a bespoke design addressing a particular issue that we have pinpointed for a specific location from the regions assigned to us in Edinburgh. We had to go out there, talk to people, make sketches, come up with a solution to showcase in the form of a illustration drawn, painted or collaged or a model/sculpture representing the work or a video.
