Creative, business builder & social entrepreneur
Here are some notes from a tutorial with Hannah Birkett:
Email visual peace making interview to Hannah.
Make a Poster for the Iraq exhibition
What is the right context for the work? Gallery/Media/Street???
Social responsibility is important to my work.
Instagater vs performative
How do you view work?
Look at Ben slow - Street art
Look at Hans Hackke - Banner
Asks a question?
Is Dialogue important?
I wanted to create a sketch/notebook which best represented the way I work. As I normally start with an idea and slowly start to flesh it out into physically forms, I wanted to find a way to represent this process.
Notes from a tutorial with Hannah Birket.
Look up Mark Lecky - Turner prize
Art and life
Collecting almost a database of material.
This sense of detachment? War photography
Remain open for the trip.
How would you like to display the work?
What's your ethos?
Concern social
Words for social?
EDL -Photographing them in their day jobs?
Mathew stone - Work on textured the grain of the wood
EDL - Tanning Salon
Mark titchner
Social ability
Write A few sentences?
Main suggestion is to take a breather, take a minute to reflect and almost meditate on what is important.
Notes from a tutorial with Hannah:
Distinct
Hans hacke - Inflatable stone henge
Grand overseer
Institutions giving help
Sculptural
Palenstian photography
Ann hardy
Communal gathering
Large format
Tactility
Reposibility of choice
Time space and place
Threads of interest
UK <> Iraq main important part of the work.
Mediation
Consistent: responsibility
Carathus
Miners strike
Apex of art form
Hopefull
Concept of the Voyeur
Dialectics
Work backwards from final show
Drawing together create another story
Personal
Go to Saatchi Photography show
The work is basically a cultural exchange
What is your working Methodolodgy?
How do you design/create/make?
Primary Research
Your own work
Breakdown brief
Sketch ideas
Visual experiments
Secondary research
From other people
Look at other peoples work
Bruce Mau
Incomplete manifesto for growth.
Great quotes
"When the outcome drives the process we will only ever go to where we have been.
If the process drives outcomes we may not know where we are going, but we will know we want to be there.
Better understand your strengths and weaknesses."
Identify and question your underlining values and belief
What
So what?
And now what?
Make mistakes fast.
Reflect on everything
Michael Bierut
Journal
Pentagram.com Designers
Moleskin Detour
Exhibitions
Notes MA Thursday 13th October 2011
The creative process
Encourage playfulness, risk-taking and experimentation.
Allow for uncertainty and ambiguity.
Emphasize collaboration and partnership.
Encourage student independence and intrinsic motivation.
Value the individual.
Encourage debate and active engagement.
Acknowledge individual approaches to learning.
Encourage intrinsic motivation.
Promote convergent and divergent thinking skills & value divergence and diversity.
Make the creative process explicit.
Provide opportunities for learner choice and autonomy.
Creativity is important to effective communication; discipline analysis, essential to creative thinking, provides a systematic framework for investigation; the processes of idea-generation require raw material (facts and knowledge) to provide the basis of associations; and the creative process in art and design has received insufficient critical analysis.
Personal creativity is:
...a process of becoming sensitive to or aware of problems, deficiencies, and gaps in knowledge for which there is no learned solution; bringing together existing information from the memory storage or external; defining the difficulty or identifying the missing elements; searching for solutions, making guesses, producing alternatives to solve the problem; testing and re-testing these alternatives; and perfecting them and finally communicating the results.
TORRANCE, E. & ROCKENSTEIN, Z . (1988) ‘Styles of Thinking and Creativity’, in R.
Schmeck (ed.) Learning Strategies and Learning Styles. New York: Plenum Press
Creative aims:
nurture capabilities of personal and team creativity;
promote understanding of the nature and role of creativity within a student’s individual social and economic contexts;
overcome barriers to the creative process;
develop frameworks within which to evaluate creative, entrepreneurial opportunities;
enhance communication and presentation skills; and improve team building and working abilities.
to avoid writers/designers block:
keep writing/working
Presentations - build confidense
Graft Architects
Dont divorce yourselves from your feelings
Jersey Seymour.com
Installations
Investigation of materials.
Sketchbooks, notebooks, blogs
Debate, collaboration, individual study,
Keep reinventing yourself,
promote divergent and convergent
Ben Wilson
Painting chewing gum
MA Art & Design
Researching contexts for Art and Design practice
Cultural theory + contextual studies + visual culture
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Critical thinking
On technique, trust and responsibilities in the classroom.
Brookfield, 1990.
The purpose of critical thinking
a) to identify and challenge assumptions,
b) to become contextually aware,
c) to imagine and explore alternatives and
d) to engage in reflective scepticism.
The aim of critical thinking
The teaching of thinking should produce critical and creative disposition that enables a person to transcend biases, evaluate situations and ideas objectively and create habits of mind that extend beyond academics to life experience in general.
Strategies for critical thinking
Research
Methodology
Critical theory
Talking/Discourse
Assessment
Essay/Literature review
Presentations
Reflective diary
MA Art & Design initial meeting
Idea generation
Critical investigation
Questioning
Research
What ideas do you want to pursue?
Art
Fine art
Photography
Julien Vallée
Graphic Designer
Tactile design
Inspired by Dada
Haptic
Space to experiment
Strike a pose – book on architecture
Final project
Real meaning – think through ideas.
MA Art & Design
Creative Enquiry
Critical Methodologies
Contextual studies
Practice Modules
Understanding Practice
Professional Practice
Independent Study (Studio Practice)
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