Elilvannan Thurairajah

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Week 11

Post your presentation slideshow/images/video on your blog. In 50-100 words write about your strategy why and how you are using which methods to address the ‘future university’ scenario 

we want to build a future university in Mars, teaming up with SpaceX and NASA to get to mars and collaborate with Zaha Hadid Architects for our campus building design  and want to use Cultural Probes in collaboration with SETI Institute for our exploration of space and extra terrestrials. 

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Week 10

How could you use systems thinking in your creative processes?

I can use the systems thinking to explain and prototype the possibilities of future project. How could this method complement (or contrast) another method we have explored in CTEC500?

I  think this method can work well with the six thinking hats, to visualize the outcomes of the ideas.

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Week 9 Wallet Design

What do they like?

my friend liked the design plan of the coin holder .

What would they change?

he wanted to change the by-fold design of it to a stand alone design.

Any questions?

why did I use purple color

Any ideas?

none

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Week 7 Sectional Drawing

1. using drawing as a research method I can understand the basic polygons used in that objects  and create a map or a land scape based on the placement of the polygons .

2. using this type of draying I can show some one who does not have access to that exact object or my  understanding of that object 

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Week 6 Ideation

1. In what ways did this exercise assist you in creative thinking and generating ideas? 

This exercise helped me brake down my ideas and made me think of different approaches to the main goal

2. How might you use or adapt this method in future for your work?

I might use this method to get a deeper understanding of my ideas and plan also to share it with my group mates will helps us collaborate our views.

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Week 5 Lo Fi Prototyping

1. My  idea is to make something that will help people relax and block cars going in to that road.

 2. I made a paper prototype of the building and made paper chair and table for my model and I used tape to hold it to gather. 

These are the only photos I was able to take before it fell apart.

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Week 4 Material Interrogations

The object of my choice of is my multitool that I had for a long time

Timeline

1. reducing the quality of the image.

2. convert the image into audio.

3. try to convert  the audio in to image  again (fail).

 Reflective Paragraph: the learning gained from engaging in the method of material interrogations is that I can work with different software to convert photo RAW data into audio and other type of files

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Integrative Practice S 2 2020 (CTEC500_2020_02) Week Two

Now you have tested Cultural Probes, suggest another scenario where they could be used (be specific, who and where)

I think Cultural Probes would be a great method for young children and elderly, who have a hard time communicating what they feel/need etc. For example elderly in rest homes who have a hard time understanding what is happening around them

What might be some failings of this method, how might the probes fail to work?

Users can use the cultural probes in unexpected ways which give wrong or irrelevant or no information that is relevant or useful.

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Integrative Practice S 2 2020 (CTEC500_2020_02) Week One

In what ways did this exercise assist in seeing things you may have not have noticed before?

I have been to the places we went to count less times but by doing this exercise i have noticed even the small details that i have missed in the past like the details on the building near subway that i walk by every day.

How might you use or adapt this method in future for your work?

when i dont have any idea i might do this again in order to explore what is around me or walk to places i have not been to in a while.

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https://youtu.be/gYI3Py7lf_c

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Signal

due to some errors the original post was deleted I have used some of my groups blogs. 

when we started of to a good started  https://robobertt.tumblr.com/post/184730497587/in-the-last-two-todays-the-class-was-taken-through 

when we started prototyping   https://robobertt.tumblr.com/post/184855578452/prototypes-every-where-over-the-weekend-every-one

when the group started to look for materials   https://robobertt.tumblr.com/post/184887277472/busted-but-thats-okayfinal-project

wile the group was play testing i was working on electromagnets to rig the machine   https://tmblr.co/ZZGhDX2iB3P_8 

we first decided to use arduino to rig the machine

 6. more testing with electromagnets revile that we need to more voltage for the magnets to work efficiently.

7. making sure not to over load the battery I used a variable resistor. video(https://youtu.be/2lwaT6PIHAY)

8. one week before show case the magnets was working on its own but did not work with the wood so we decided to not use the magnets and also we found a way to rig the machine with out the magnets. that is to use the stand to tilt the machine toward  one side to make the player think they will have more chance of wining. https://robobertt.tumblr.com/post/185617247637/showcase

group contribution

https://robobertt.tumblr.com/post/185636459007/what-did-we-do?is_related_post=1

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REFLECTIVE JOURNALING

Having begun my journey as a part of the Bachelors of Creative Technologies, I can confidently say that every project and interaction has been a weird mix of smaller and larger explosions. It’s strangely unique, this course and my fellow aspiring creative technologists themselves. Already there have been highs and lows, moments of discouragements, conflictions and close bonding. It’s been an exciting ride so far.

Two studio projects have already up and gone, Personally, the 1st studio project has stood out for me. The Sustainable Materials Project run by Ben, Yvonne, Sangeeta, and Charles. I was in a group with Isaac, Isabella, Ben, Jamie, Yasmin, Callum

Given the task to create a game of play cards, we originally started with “Invoke a sense of self-discovery through nostalgia”. The entire process was exhausting yet exhilarating. We were met with many challenges and we went through many changes. We went through several ideas as we couldn’t settle for one specifically. It appears my group had a tendency to choose a “broad” idea or “difficult” product. We went from a sense of self-discovery through nostalgia and we finally settled on different everyday scenarios and objects to invoke creative problem solving through social interaction.

This experience was essentially an eye opener and pushed me to do my best due to not wanting to let my team down. Being in this group pushed me out of my comfort zone since the beginning, because although my group and I have talked to each other prior to this assessment, we had never worked with each other before. I didn’t know what type of group player they were, and neither have I made anything like a card game! Although my worries were put to ease soon enough. My group was culturally diverse, and it allowed for different skills, creativity, and backgrounds that enable us to perform well.

There was a sense of friendship that came from this group of seven, with our group dynamic being that we bounced off each other and support or corrected each other when needed. We didn’t have a set ‘leader’, but we had our own initiatives to do what was needed to succeed onto the next step or get over a boundary that would’ve otherwise made our progress stagnant. Such as when we originally designed the game to bring back childhood memories, but upon trialing our first playtest, we observed that not only did the game wasn’t interesting, the game was to easy and it wasn’t challenging enough. Even though it was a fail we started at from square one and started looking into reconsidering other ideas and started thinking of new ones.

We started working on our own for the evening then, Jamie came the next day with a different game that he had created overnight, we sat down and played the game it was far more interesting and we felt like the game will actually work but  the game did not fit our statement of intent, we had two choices one change our statement of intent or think of a new game that fits our statement of intent. We picked the first one that we started working backward, changed our statement of intent and we end up creating “What You Do” a game where you have given a problem and you have to solve the problem with the items you got from the cards.

Schiola and Steven A. (2011) talked about how in groups there were always moments where:

At the end of the process, for lack of a better plan, the group decides to vote on the best strategy to implement, leaving the majority of group feeling just fine while the minority of members who voted differently feeling disillusioned and frustrated. (Chap. 6, para. 5)

This statement is true as I have observed this in my group, and in my own experiences, but not in an overall extremely negative sense, just brief moments of subtle frustration of the ideas either being ignored or shut down. Truthfully, I feel like this statement is also missing the factor of if the member voiced out their opinion or plan in the first place because there’s always the fear of rejection that prevents people from initially speaking up. That’s what I struggled with at some points, but overall, it was an awesome project and the group was exceptionally fun to work with. Problem-solving and critical thinking skills increased from my experience of the second project, and it’s all thanks to my experience with my group, but there is room for improvement.

Urania Glassman (2009) argues that:

Participation through helping to actualize purpose demands that the group worker consistently examines his or her interactions and emotional self-expression. When actualizing purpose, not only are the members’ behavior more consistently connected and apparent to one another but so, too, are the group worker’s. (pp. 111)

I can observe that this is obvious in my team because we work together to achieve the goal (create a card game), we try to propose a solution faster, and feel a sense of accomplishment when finding a solution. Our problem. Although, personally, I feel that it is difficult for me to make decisions that benefit the group. Of course, I expressed my opinion. I think it is necessary to help and complete some of my processes, but I think maybe I have more rides in the back seat than others, let others take the lead. This is not a bad thing for the group, just for me personally.

Still, what I would like to work on is to push myself to interact with others who I haven’t yet, and to try to speak my thoughts out even if I feel like it will be looked over or changed, because then at least I said my thoughts out loud. I feel like if I learn to do this, and since this amongst the people in any group, there would be more chances for myself and others to not feel left out or ignored, and for more interesting ideas to make themselves known for the group to work from. This raises the questions of will I let what happened during the 2nd project happen during the future projects after that or not? Will I continue to improve my interpersonal group work skills along with my problem solving and critical thinking skills? What will I do differently if put in the same situations in the future?

References

Schiola, S. A. (2011). Making Group Work Easy: The Art of Successful Facilitation. Lanham: R&L Education.

Glassman, U. (2009). Group work: a humanistic and skills building approach. Los Angeles: SAGE, [2009].

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More progress 💪

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What happened after we killed the idea

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Just a Idea of what happened so far 😁

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My HTYN Member ID Card

This is my HTYN member ID card this means so much to me as this is one of the things that I have been holding on to for years and reminds me how creative I am.