Lecture: Context of Practice 3

• Up to 9,000 words
• 40% of course
• Focus of the module is about a contextual knowledge
• How much your work evidences and intellectual engagement with the world.
• It is a project which we can research through making as well as writing and research.
• set question > think of topic > practice based research
• making something as a way of solving a problem
• we plan and drive it ourselves


Who am i as a designer? What do I want to specialise in?


Knowledge and Understanding
6A1: Demonstrate an independent critical understanding of the aesthetic, cultural, historical, technological, social, political or other contexts relevant to individual subject disciplines.

Find your own position on the topic. What is your take on it? rather than just repeating other established views.

Cognitive Skills
6B1: methodological and critical approach to everything

How are you going to research this projects?

Practical and Proffesional Skills
C1: Research - Quality and Quantity
Practical and visual as well as textual

6D1: Organise, plan and effectively manage self- directed projects and communicate outcomes through written and appropriate forms

6A4: synthesis both practical and theoretical.

PRAXIS - the realisation of theory and practice

Form:

Level 4 Essay Title: Should fine art be given more value than other types of communication?

Level 5 Essay Title: Outline And Explain The Key Characteristics For Successful Supermarket Package Design


Aim/ objective of your proposed Cop 3 project (basically a title but not polished)
-try to define a subject
-be as specific as you can
- series of related questions

What research needs to be undertaken into the general and specific contexts of your projects? What factors sit behind your chosen subject? History, culture, social etc...

Are there any dominant attitudes that inform my subject

Is my project culturally specific?

What approaches will you take and what processes, methods, materials and tools are to be involved in research into your project (Methodology) what are you going to use practically and textually to research it.

• how you are going to approach chosen subject,
•what questions you'll ask and why not others?

Figure out which research methods are most appropriate for your practice and essay.

What preparation or investigations do you need to undertake for your research project to take place?
How will i go about investigating my chosen subject.. eg sending out a questionnaire but research how to maximise results. Might have to learn stuff before doing it.

It will make the project better if we consider how to research now

Who is your research project for?
make this project as real world as possible. It will make it more complex but more exciting.

Could make an exhibition, work in collaboration with people in the real world. Could you make it useful and world changing?