BNIKAM textiles

MA Fashion& Textiles|| University of Huddersfield|| Research, Inspiration and Development.

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snapchat research

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/9ca4f7c6-d2c3-4e25-862c-03aed9ec1082

Young milllennials getting surgery to look like their snapchat filters.

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FMP lecture

25th April 2018

FIND PDP FORMS!! create new mind maps.

Remember to research into your chosen methods Inclusive Design Tool Kit •http://www.inclusivedesigntoolkit.com/Designing with People •http://designingwithpeople.rca.ac.uk/Wicked Problems and creative methods •https://www.wickedproblems.com/read.phpMethods at Manchester •http://www.methods.manchester.ac.uk/methods/Practice-led methods – See 

Gray and Malins, Visualising Research in Art and Design http://www2.rgu.ac.uk/subj/ats/Research-VisualizingResearch/locating.htm

Go back to the art of mapping!

•Now is the time to return to your project proposal for TMA1401 and ask yourself....

•How have my ideas changed?•How might I refine my project idea?

•What key areas or themes have evolved since I first began the MA?

MINDMAP OF WHAT I HAVE LEARNT...

Thinking holistically 

•What briefs? 

•How have your ideas/concepts evolved?

•New skills/techniques acquired and practiced? 

•Research into new ways of working? 

•Development of creative methodologies? 

•Research into your subject – themes, concepts, ideas?

•Contexts – commercial, creative industries? 

•Development of major project proposal?

What do you need to consider when you are revisiting your proposal: 

•Key theme/topic/question to guide your project? 

•Secondary and primary research intentions? 

•Your identity as a practitioner-researcher? •Industry/Commercial/Business/Agencies/Network ideologies and links relevant to your project and/or how you are targeting them? 

•What weighting will you pick and how will this guide and inform your approach? 

•Intentions/outline proposals in an appropriate format 

•Evidencing concept research and development of ideas? 

•Communication Strategies you might use? 

•Realising your idea and promoting it effectively?

Need to do...

Where are you now? Think about your PDP!

What stage are you at with your ideas for the Final Masters Project

Reformulating your question/brief/idea?

Clarifying your aims and objectives?

Refining/working on methodologies?

Revisiting and adding to the literature on your topic?

Develop a Gantt chart or timetable plan of work.

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WEEK 9 TASK

Presenting project.

SWOT ANALYSIS OF PRESENTATION DAY

Strengths:

each having individual parts to talk about.

executed the way that we confidently spoke to our fellow students.

knew the answers to questions asked by students and tutors.

organised well as in we knew who was next to talk.

knew the ins and outs of our project and activities.

Weaknesses:

May have seemed that we repeated ourselves in some slides.

Language barrier, didn't get heard or misheard at the beginning of presentation when Lavi spoke about the main points such as artists and the themes of our exhibition.

Quietly spoken

Older adults/ students in class not fully understanding our snapchat idea.

Opportunities:

Learnt new skills when working together.

Confidently spoke well

Easily presented to everyone

Plenty of time for questions at the end.

Could cause a collaboration with other students later.

Hopefully other students gained ideas from this presentation.

Gained knowledge from other students presentations.

Threats:

Getting bored through the presentation

Questions about further work with the client unknown.

Not knowing the full feedback from the arts council about our ideas and whether they used them or not.

Whether we will use these ideas in our own individual projects or other students have taken the ideas?

Students we presented to not fully understanding the technical issues that any of our ideas have hidden behind them.

Blog posts exposing ideas and client.

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WEEK 8 TASK

Reflective evaluation on project to date 7th March 2018

Who does it benefit?

The people who will benefit from this project idea can be people from a young age such as 3 and up to the ages of 100. These ideas are meant to include visitors and to enhance their interaction skills, whether they are able or not. Never being prejudice and letting all sorts of human life forms to participate and enjoy what creative art students have developed through thorough research into artists from the 1990′s and onward.

Also, our team will benefit from this idea as it has given us the insight of what clients want and how to work with a team professionally, also seeing how successful our idea has been at the end of it all.

The curators will also benefit from all of these ideas and working with us students because they have gained knowledge on how to approach younger audiences, keep up to date with technology and social media trends.

Reconnecting them with their own social media apps and advertising themselves and their exhibitions in the future.

Assessing the values of proposed project ideas:

The Zine creates its’ own value in the way it allows the barrier of age gaps to be broken. It has the social benefit of allowing conversations and the prospect of storytelling to unfold between generations.

The snapchat activity allows the Arts Council connect with teenagers, they are known for always being on their phones so it makes sense to give them something that works with the apps and technology that they are already using.

The value of the memory wall being put into the activity space is that visitors can leave their mark behind by adding small but moving statements. As well as getting visitors to reconnect with their past memories and it reconnects children and adults to converse and make new memories themselves.

Assessing the benefits of proposed project ideas:

The Arts council provides a space within the exhibition that allows visitors of all ages to relax and engage in activities that are there to stimulate and feed their creativity.

They want this space to be fun for visitors but also educational, it is an extension of the exhibition, to give the visitors a better understanding of what they are experiencing.

When children are young, they want to play with everything and if they could they would play all day long. Having a place where children can play and learn gives parents chance to be creative with them, something they may not have chance to do at home.

It is a hope that some people might take some of these activities away with them and maybe replicate them at home for their children.

The Arts Council want activities not only for children but for everyone, adults and teens included.

The theme of the 90’s is perfect for this because you will have older people that will remember the 90’s and then you will have teens and children that were either born in the 90’s or after.

So, they have little to no memory of the 90’s they only know what they have been told or seen, so creating activities that allow conversations between generations breaks up the gaps and allows people to learn.

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WEEK 6 TASK

Reflect upon experience of this project planning.

Whilst being apart of this project I felt like I was being apart of something id never done before that was this important for a big company such as the arts council.

I feel that my experience within this project has been very valuable because of how much I have learnt from the rest of the team and my tutors/ curators.

Knowing how much everyone knows about their specialisms and learning about the different ways in which people interact with each other and how they defeat the challenges we set each other.

Realising that everyone works at very different speeds as well and that everyone doesn't get the work set that day done straight away.

The project planning within this project was difficult in a way that when it came to meeting up and seeing each other at the same time and going through the project, we found it difficult arranging a time and date.

Mostly the meetings went ahead if someone couldn’t get to the meeting place and then we notified whoever missed out via WhatsApp.

I feel that because I lived the furthest away and it was difficult for me to make some of the time slots, I tried my best to make most of the meetings, my reasons for not making some of them were either because of the bad weather we had during this project or because of work commitments.

I appreciated being notified of the tasks that needed doing that week and I always had then completed for the group, sometimes it became a regular thing though for other members to not complete them and I think that was one of our main downfalls, to complete tasks when set.

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Reflections of working in a collaborative group.

·       What I liked most about the group was that we agreed together which ideas would be strong enough to pitch to our client and gathering enough research to prove our work will benefit them. It was a very comfortable working environment.

·       What I liked least about the group was when I asked a member of the group about his idea if he needed help to complete this and he said that he would be ok to do it alone but when we came to pitch the idea to the arts council team, he hadn't managed to complete his idea. When meeting with Rowan after the pitch, he explained that he couldn't complete his idea because it was too much research and that he didn't have the information such as the press pack from the project to finish it.

·       The most effective things about the way the groups worked were that each of us had our own specialist skills to create the ideas that we had visualised. For example, I had a textiles and design background to photoshop images into a filter for the idea and to think of an activity that included textiles from Tracey Emin’s idea with the fabric and words stitched across it.

·       The least effective things about the way the groups worked were timekeeping and meeting at the same time on the suggested days. I also think that some of the group members didn't suggest enough ideas for the group, it was the same people thinking of ideas and thinking on how to progress them.

·       The things I did that helped the group most were keeping track of what was happening during meetings such as note taking and researching further into the ideas e.g materials specifications and making samples of each idea so we had a physical item to look at when pushing the idea further.

·       The things I did that helped the group least were when we were in tutorials with Rowan, I feel like my confidence was lacking and that I could of opened up more about the way that I felt within the group, but then I did voice my opinion when we we left Rowan and became a group of students.

Next time...

·       The types of people I’d like to work with are those with similar interests and of a similar age so that we have subjects to talk about out of the project, ideally I would enjoy working with the same people as we got along really well and no conflicts arose.

·       The roles I’d like to play in the group are the problem solving role and maybe organising more study groups for our research topic?

·       The exercises I’d like the group to go through are team building exercises and maybe visiting other galleries. Maybe even socialising outside of the group tutorials

·       The working methods I’d like to use are using other galleries for primary research and seeing what they have been applying to their activity resource centres and look at their ideas and generate new ideas and use our initiative to develop something more creative and innovative.

·       The way I’d like us to run our meeting is recap on what happened during the tutorial from the previous week, go through how we have developed since the last meeting including our thoughts on the ideas and how we have improved upon them and look at how the research has developed since then.

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How Laura and I have worked together:

I feel that we worked very well as a pair and that we understood what we needed to do within this small idea. Building up our research together for specifications with the technical aspects of this project. We communicated well with each other sending over via email what work we had done and keeping each other up to date with the project.

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Research Process

Opening up: reflect, read and question.

Focusing in: identify the question, aim for clarity.

Opening up again: review the literature, look at the focus again.

Focusing in design the research proposal: audience, question, lit review, means of data collection, ethical issues.

Entering: gaining access to the research site, observing ethical protocol, being transparent.

Opening up again: review the literature.

Analysing the data: finding out what the data means.

Sharing: write up, report, publish.

Rachel Cooper: The design Journal.

Layers of research:

paradigms

Strategies

Choices

Approaches

Time horizons

Methods

AXIOLOGY: Concerned with values, including aesthetics and ethics, it also includes the process of research. The roles that your own values play in the research process are important if you wish your research to be credible.

ONTOLOGY: Concerned with the nature of reality. This raises assumptions about the way the world works and the commitment held to particular views by researchers. objectivism and subjectivism.

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Books/ Journals/ Articles

https://www.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/art-review-self-portraiture-in-contemporary-art/Content?oid=2527654

Reading over this article online and picking gout what I think is important towards this research, this articles gives us an insight as to what other artists and art reviewers think of the subject that involves self portraiture and the selfie today.

“Part of an extended project in which Lee transformed her appearance and immersed herself in a series of American subcultures, including drag queens, senior citizens and yuppies. By performing such a diverse range of characters, the artist dares to ask, 'What makes you yourself?'" Nikki S. Lee.

Reading through this little section that I have taken away from the article and thinking about how I can relate to me personally, I don't relate to it very much, I don't think that I have had that issue with identity like some people that I know. I think that it is a very strong and reliable topic to explore and gives the artist knowledge and understanding of what those who do have that crisis within their personal lives. It is a touching topic within society today especially with the younger generation recognising the different genders and sexualities that are being explored.

So I have read this question that the artist is asking her audience as it if I am about to pour out my deep insecurities, not about gender and personality changes. Maybe the right audience for this article needs to be addressed, the answers will all have different themes but will be an interesting read.

http://www.hollyarmishaw.com/the-philosophy-of-self-portraiture-in-contemporary-art---essay.html       

“There is an essential element of “control” in the art of self-portraiture.  The self-portrait can become a major exercise in independent production. However, even in the opposite style of self-portraiture, within the most candid and spontaneous works, there is also a conscious element of control.”

Reading through and picking up the words ‘control’ and ‘independence’ is really hard to understand because I've always know that when you know to control your work you actually can't mentally have control. There isn't any of that unique form, accidental error art where it looks perfect and has a more meaningful message, so comparing that to yourself as self and if you know anything about yourself then again there isn't really room for control, you never have control over your life realistically. So I cant compare this part of to my proactive practice because it is always full of accidents and the independence that I say I have is making the decisions of what I want to research and coming int uni and deciding on what is being done that day. I think being independent is important when coming to uni, interacting with the right people and making connections in the right places.

https://www.artspace.com/magazine/art_101/art_market/self_portraiture-51776

“The birth of the self-portrait is partially owed to the humanistic ideas that shaped the Enlightenment, elevating individual secular experiences into subjects worthy of art—but a more pragmatic development is also responsible, namely the proliferation of cheap mirrors that made it easy for artists to paint the most readily available sitters in their studio, themselves.”

Instantly when I have read through this it makes me think back to my practice and how much I can relate on a basis of whether or not having my mind ‘readily available’ to pursue my design aspirations. Making them through myself and solely using what research I have nearest to me is what is in my mind, putting that straight to work and not wasting time to go out and pester someone else for what I already know and want. I see this tactic as resourceful and the only that I can understand myself within my practice and theoretical writing.

Being passionate about this sort of research in itself is unique and not identified as primary or secondary research because its not been found in a resource recommended by professionals or another reliable source. I agree that it isn't a professional resource because it doesn't provide evidence for a marking scheme.

Mirror Affect, Christina Albu.

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Tuesday 13th Feb 18

Handy tips to consider within this project and our ideas:

Snapchat filters- design processes:

Actual design of the filters- appealing to the themes.

Branding

Probability 

Archiving images

Instruction manual

Scalability 

Zine/ activity booklet:

Think about branding

market research

think about how the zines might be taken away or left behind

hanging mechanisms

printing quality

Shoes? Memories? Conversations?

Touch

Slowing down? Reflecting/ contemplating.

Tracey Emin filter ideas:

American flag floating at the bottom.

‘Here to stay’ slogan at the bottom of the page with ‘arts council’ logo in one corner.

Michael Landy ideas:

Red cap made into a border/ frame.

Face filter that puts a hat onto your head.

Jesse Wine ideas:

Small sculptures being built up into the background around you.

Hermione Wiltshire ideas:

Finger prints gradually fill the frame.

Face turns into a finger print.

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Social Media ideas.

snapchat filters...

ideas for designs:

artists

props

tags

borders

wigs

colours 

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where our third idea generated from

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Monday 19th March

My reflection on how our team worked together for the creative entrepreneurship module.

Firstly, I think that we worked very well to get where we are at this time within the project. 

What I liked most about the group was that we agreed together which ideas would be strong enough to pitch to our client and gathering enough research to prove our work will benefit them. It was a very comfortable working environment.

What I liked least about the group was when I asked a member of the group about his idea if he needed help to complete this and he said that he would be ok to do it alone but when we came to pitch the idea to the arts council team, he hadn't managed to complete his idea. When meeting with Rowan after the pitch, he explained that he couldn't complete his idea because it was too much research and that he didn't have the information such as the press pack from the project to finish it.

The most effective things about the way the groups worked were that each of us had our own specialist skills to create the ideas that we had visualised. For example, I had a textiles and design background to photoshop images into a filter for the idea and to think of an activity that included textiles from Tracey Emin’s idea with the fabric and words stitched across it.

The least effective things about the way the groups worked were timekeeping and meeting at the same time on the suggested days. I also think that some of the group members didn't suggest enough ideas for the group, it was the same people thinking of ideas and thinking on how to progress them.

The things I did that helped the group most were keeping track of what was happening during meetings such as note taking and researching further into the ideas e.g materials specifications and making samples of each idea so we had a physical item to look at when pushing the idea further.

The things I did that helped the group least were when we were in tutorials with Rowan, I feel like my confidence was lacking and that I could of opened up more about the way that I felt within the group, but then I did voice my opinion when we we left Rowan and became a group of students.

Next time...

The types of people I’d like to work with are those with similar interests and of a similar age so that we have subjects to talk about out of the project, ideally I would enjoy working with the same people as we got along really well and no conflicts arose.

The roles I’d like to play in the group are the problem solving role and maybe organising more study groups for our research topic?

The exercises I’d like the group to go through are team building exercises and maybe visiting other galleries. Maybe even socialising outside of the group tutorials

The working methods I’d like to use are using other galleries for primary research and seeing what they have been applying to their activity resource centres and look at their ideas and generate new ideas and use our initiative to develop something more creative and innovative.

The way I’d like us to run our meeting is recap on what happened during the tutorial from the previous week, go through how we have developed since the last meeting including our thoughts on the ideas and how we have improved upon them and look at how the research has developed since then.

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14th March 18

Group tutorial.

Make sure our fonts are consistent

Pictorial activity

Freestyle pages need rearranging.

Within the Zine make sure that the size for the hands activity page is right.

Put questions in the riddle/ puzzle book

With the snapchat idea they need to negotiate with their digital manager.

Children can have conversations with their parents when they are at the exhibition which can be monitored and used as further research?

Respond to feedback before the 9th April.

Incorporate our ideas into literature- feedback- blog.

Suggestion on size of booklets.

Popularity quiz- puzzles? or is too much?

Group idea- puzzles for Lavi’s booklet?

Debrief- collectively author-blog.

Recording voices.

Project/ WIX: BACKGROUND. research to themes, exhibitions, arts council, my reflection or curatorial display themes, accessing artists space, colour scheme and activity space.

Aesthetic awareness:

Audience

Analysis of works

How I interpret artworks

How can they be accessed by audiences?

Development/ execution:

Ideas/ options

How we worked as a group

How we met the criteria/ client?

Logic of show

Social benefits- activity space/ value.

How successful the idea has been

What have I learnt?

What is it important

Interpretation

Understanding

Translated

Turned into activity for different audiences.

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7th March

Pitch to ARTS COUNCIL notes.

All three ideas are likely to be incorporated into their activities.

Or at least bits from each idea will be used like the question on the cards about the 1990′s and asking the audience to write their opinions.

They exclaimed that we presented our ideas very professionally and how well they all connect with and from each other.

They described to us how considerate we have been with the snapchat filter as to when it comes to the instructions and how to use an app of the 21st century.

Maybe have more questions about the exhibition though instead of general questions about the 90′s.

Trends/ memory rather than objects.

Reflecting on the exhibition.

Thinking about collections.

Questions about our feedback

Would Idea three be easily made at the size that we intend?

ZINE: Ready for April.

Snapchat needs further discussion when the arts council head down London.

Deep reflections on blogs and joint website

Research exhibition work

Process of ideas and generating 

Feedback we need to reflect

Website will be showcased on the arts council website as a blog. and can be part of the package.

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28th Feb 18

Reschedule the pitch because of the snow.

Notes from Rowan and the group discussion.

What to change and alter for the real thing.

Look at the font, style and spelling. 

Make sure it all matches on every slide.

Where am I in this exhibition? Do we need to think of questions for Lavi’s booklet?

Think about adding RIDDLES? 

Will we need to post our samples? 

Video ourselves presenting the pitch and send it to the arts council?

Press pack with a small poster and every part of the project inside?

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‘in my shoes’ idea 3.

VISUALISATION

https://furniture123.co.uk/content/wood-types -  resourcing wood? what type do we want? is it affordable?

SCALE: decide together?

FRAME: MDF, cheap, they already have sources to get it.

MATERIALS: Nails, yellow grey and white yarn, MF, Yellow paint/ gray paint.

AUDIENCE: brand age range, approach it with all ages in mind.

EVIDENCING REACTIONS: Video recorder?

Can we collect older posts into a box that we can make for the gallery? which will be easily transportable for everyone.

3 IDEAS FOR QUESTIONS/ POSTS:

Best memory of the 90′s?

worst trend?

Best/ worst haircuts?

best bands?

role models

who would you of liked to have met?

favourite song

what do you think it was like at your age in the 90′s?

cartoons/ films/ comics