12 October 2017 JK
Visual Documentation as a framework.
It's a space for exploration.
How much relevance between the report and studio practice? What's its relationship to practice? How do you decide what to write?
- It touches your practice
- It acts as a reflection of Y1 and Y2
- Intuition. It writes about your subconsciousness.
- Current affairs. We live in an interesting era of time. The world is angry and distorted. Write about our weird observations.
Structure (See Handbook)
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Review of Context (eg. literature, media, art)
- Methodology (the techniques you have used and your rationale for using them)
- Substantive Chapter
- Substantive Chapter
- Substantive Chapter
- Conclusion (Summarizing your arguments) the material covered as well as the implications of your report to design as well as other relevant domains
- Appendix
7000 words +/- 10%
This is almost equivalent to a junior lecture. An just over an hour lecture about your project, about your personal practice and explorations.
Don't make it like a report! It's not a report!
Show your struggles, failures, how your mind works
-> write 250 words every day.
It's not a diary, not an opinion piece. It's an investigation.
Never accept anything that's 'true'
challenge it
a structured argument or exploration
a designed artefact
- The Designed Object: 2 physical copies, 1 digital copy
Deadline: Friday 19th January 2018
annotated visual material: use imagery
ensure the fluency between text & image being used.
This is the research bit that supports you until your degree show.
eg. previous year student wrote about women who spit. Her project is about alcoholic beverages from spit.
!!Check Plagiarism
!!Quote sources
Citation & Referencing
Resources:
- UoL Libraries: e.g. Senate House
- Scounol
- British Library
- Oxford & Cambridge (holds a copy of every published book with IBAN)
- Imperial (technology & media)
- Welcome Collection (body, human)
- Archives
Referencing
- https://www.zotero.org/
- always keep a note of the page
- double commas "for empirical or what people say"
- single commas to 'draw attention' or 'to problematise'
- use quotes for clarification
Re-writing sentences, shift the structure and create a flow of content.
- Extra Writing Practice Sessions
- Juliet Sprake 15th November 2017
- Matt Ward 6th December 2017
Options:
- Use camera, film as primary research
- use primary or secondary sources
- hand-bound
- graphic communication of ideas. really graphic stuff
- include objects as visual communication
- notion of layers. printing on different types of paper. interact with readers
- text is not a linear form!