Reiterating Eric Booth’s innovative sketching, Monday’s studio provided the context for how the development of project 3 is designed to function. The point of the project is to create a stream of idea development. Firstly the project entails writing down 3 things that interest me about the case study or my previous work in project 2, creating each one of the new ideas to be separate from the others. Then by taking one of these ideas (the one that stands out the most), and trying to list as many possible sketch that result from the original idea, one particular sketch or potentially an area of interest may arise which can then be further explored. The idea is that this process of constant improvement and reflection will produce an innovative idea, something much stronger and more advanced than the first, original notion. i.e. take something from online video and push it sideways and play with it.

This encourages my group to be more experimental in our approach. By understanding that our original ideas may be completely reshaped and transformed by the end of the project, a relief is granted upon the production of original ideas and the brainstorming process gets underway much more quickly than previously. See the next blog post regarding speculative sketching to recognise these statements. Most importantly, today’s studio encouraged me to go outside of my comfort zone and embrace notions of continuous improvement in order to maximise the effectiveness of the brainstorming process and potentially produce more advanced results.