(It is not cold in the room anymore this week! I am so glad.)
So this week, Seth had drawn an interesting diagram on our recent schedules. After a little bit of explanation, he first went through the process of submitting assignments which seemed troublesome but actually really simple. Then, there’s the main part for the day—the six hats thinking; and we used it to give feedbacks to our fellow students’ artworks for the first project. To show my understanding for it, I shall like to discuss their work using the method: (sorry if I am critical) 🙂
- Georgia was the first one to show her work. The six photos were portraits of her friends representing her. With the green hat, I say that her idea of others representing her is rather creative. We are who our friends are; the same type of people becomes friends. As for the yellow hat, she centred the main object effectively, but I don’t quite get the main idea she wanted to demonstrated (black hat). Also, another drawback was the composition. For instance, the first one should have not included the painting’s frame in the photo; it is distracting.
- Bronte’s idea of reframing polaroid pictures was great (yellow hat) but the background should have been varied (black hat). I really love her using the retro look of those pictures to represent herself.
To reflect upon those analysis we did in class, Seth mentioned the recurrence of “constraint”. Right, I suppose there is a constraint to any work; without it, it is hard to get started because we do not know where to begin. It’s like a ball of mixed threads, we need to find one end first to start before we can separate them.
The “six thinking hat” is a rather useful method. Although at first I find this name funny, the system do impress me. Actually, I am impressed by any people using systematic methods to achieve a goal—it is effective and easy to understand.
P.S. This what six hats thinking is:
[from debonoforschools.com]
