photo: a mock-up idea for my exhibition space. Be on the lookout for the real thing in a few weeks!
What’s your point of view? What message do you want your audience to leave with? How does light play into this? What size would be effective? Are you incorporating interactive technologies? How are you going to get your audience to understand the initial idea? Where are you putting it? Why are you putting it there? What materials are you going to use? What’s the form? Why that form? Why not this form? What research have you done? How does that matter? Is there sound? Color? Smell? Tactility? Why? Why not? What’s the spirit? What will happen? What do you hope will happen? Why? How do you know people will react that way? Who? What? Where? When? Why? How?
How am I going to get people to understand?
ARGH!
Communication Design 2 (an MDP Required Course) is mentally grueling for me right now. I have been asked to reinterpret an interactive web site (www.tenbyten.org) into an exhibition space. The twist is that this exhibit space is not a literal interpretation but rather one that clearly includes my point of view and my objectives – an interpretation that reflects my thought process and my firmness in my experience.
For the past few weeks, I’ve had to struggle with answering all the questions above…and then some! I think the most important one that I’ve been thinking about so far is: When it comes time for me to pursue my thesis, how will I deliver a solid argument – one that differs from the rest? And how is this project helping me understand how to prepare myself?
I know this question can be answered in hundreds of ways. Each one of us in the course has struggled to interpret and translate our initial media into a new media form. I know I’ve struggled to find a balanced interpretation that is a reflection of my beliefs, but foremost a catalyst for conversation and self-reflection.
The process for this project has been somewhat grueling because I couldn’t control when exactly I was going to reach a miniature epiphany or just a huge wall. There were even moments that I thought I was on the right track, only to find out later that I needed to go back to an earlier sketch or veer off down another path of ideas. I think most of us are programmed to think everything must go forward and onward in order to reach a goal, but moving through a process that is non-linear from start to finish, that has twists and turns and reverse actions, can also help you reach your goals as well. That’s what the design process is all about. Oh, the process!…it’s been a struggle…it’s been a blast.
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