CCDN 231EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN IDEASassignment one

EXTENSION BThrough a tutor supported design investigation of the body in our relationship to things, each student will explore empirically (originating in or based on observation or experience) their own everyday as meaningful context for developing and creating design concepts. Each of you will be engaged with characteristics of factual knowledge, which can be used as a broader, practical, intellectual and theoretical base in the process of designing, from the physical (not sensory).

Choose five everyday activities. Spend a minimum of one hour observing, noticing, engaging in the relationship with all things during each of these activities - the body and each activity or event. How do things extend the physical body? How do they, beyond their materiality as an artefact, define our expanded existence and participation in our everyday lives?

The validity and importance of collected information, their potential for the project, and extended investigation needs to be clearly expressed through a clear process of both collection and interpretive analysis. How can data be collated into a visual expression? How to “read” critically the meanings and values existing in the factual and actual, and to define and articulate different interpretations about them is the underlying premise of assignment one. Each student will illustrate their findings as a whole through an illustrated evidence as well as to extract three preferred, inspiring elements. How this evidence is designed becomes a creative intention for which each student is to innovatively express your findings in 2D media.

ASSESSMENT CRITERIAextension B

ability for the independent use of factual knowledge in making conclusions diversity in investigation and findingscreative use visual and/or other media.expressiveness and clarity of evidence

Extension B presented in tutor groups 15% of overall grade.

DUE Group A+B+C 14:40 monday july 26DUE Group D+E+F 14:40 thursday july 29