Playful Brainstorming and Creative Experimentation

Eric Booth encourages creative freedom when it comes to developing ideas and end products. His teachings define the processes in which our studio is expected to engage in throughout the semester. Instead of over-thinking, over-analysing and projecting ideas toward and result, Booth supports a playful, experimental approach to developing ideas. The idea is to just make, make, make, and allow the previous sketch to inform the next, and so on. This approach is new to me, as I usually jump (mentally) to an end product, rather than take small developmental steps toward and end goal. Although this process is somewhat foreign to me, it makes complete sense and I absolutely want to adapt my usual practises to fit this attitude. For example, for project 2 I spent a lot of time brainstorming ideas, though after I was satisfied with my research. I plan, however, to apply Booth’s method to project 3 as I believe it will encourage me to push beyond what it already known and ‘been done’ and, rather, shift my focus toward innovative ideas and “hybrid” texts–the course objective, essentially.