Unit 2: Positions through contextualising – Week 3

“Exploration Diary”

I used a mind map to organize the research route of the past two weeks, which has made my thinking clearer. Last week, I conducted practical investigations on urban nature, exploring from a micro perspective and documenting three aspects in the form of a diary: natural textures, human erosion, and symbiotic relationship. As the final… Continue reading Unit 2: Positions through contextualising – Week 3

Unit 2: Positions through contextualising – Week 2

In the second week of exploration, I abandoned the introduction of artificial intelligence concepts from the previous week and instead delved deeper into the relationship between humans and nature. The uncertainty and variability of British weather always makes it a common topic of conversation when people meet, providing a good example of uncertainty in the… Continue reading Unit 2: Positions through contextualising – Week 2

Unit 2: Positions through contextualising – Week 1

In the second brief of Unit 2, I begin to use studio and writing practices to explore and articulate how my developing work relates to existing discourses, practices, projects and/or other media. In the first week I collected some references related to my developing line of enquiry and began to build my own reference library.

Unit 1: Methods of contextualising – Week 2

Degrading sweatshop conditions
Benetton, how much my life worth?
Forced to work exhasuting hours
I made your clothes
Rana Plaza is every where
No one should die for fashion…

In the second week we focused on the labels on the black trousers for experiments in a studio-based method. Based on these critical studies of the objects, we identified our individual positions.

Unit 1: Methods of contextualising – Week 1

In this brief we are going to work in a small group to consider our own position(s) within the contexts of graphic design, such as cultural, social, environmental, historical, political, disciplinary, and professional contexts (among others). In these contexts, we will develop a studio-based experiment that explores, deepens, or extends them critically. In the first… Continue reading Unit 1: Methods of contextualising – Week 1