Advanced Research | 28Feb2017 | READING SEMINAR 01 | Reading the Landscape: Describing and Interpreting Field Sites
A field trip can be considered as a creative approach before jumping into the design. Another has mentioned many ways to collect notes on field trip including pictures, Sound recording, smell sensing on field trip site. However, I believe, sketching is one of the different ways to maintain field notes because artist gets the opportunity to express the experience in his/her own way.
Additionally, everyday documents such as TO-DO lists, emails to friends, Left voice messages, Post-it reminders, Homemade maps giving directions to a friend and personal diaries can be also part of Collectables. These small elements can be a hidden with real potential for your art piece.
What are the key uses of field notes? Why are they a useful tool in research?
Fieldnotes in form of text, sketches, photographs, souvenirs result finally into surprising and spontaneous results. They end up with the open-ended thoughts which we would have not imagine before. Field notes can help one to find actual interest. Observation can define and refine research questions and becomes more analytical. We can again go through our ideas, thoughts, and experiences.
What does the text indicate as the key issues in interpreting and manipulating visual images as part of your research? How might the interpretation of visual material be pertinent to research in your own field?
‘We learn to see a thing by learning to describe it’-Raymond Williams. Visuals help us to see actively and more responsible for observing in detail. The field trip is an opportunity where observations and ideas can form a connection with personal interests.
Pages 124-126 describe the use of found images in a research project that used postcards from Paris as a means of investigating the connections between France and Algeria during the era of French colonization. Can you think of a research use for found images in your own discipline? Briefly, outline a possible research project of your own that makes use of found images.
In my own discipline, two main field trips were responsible for finding images.
1) ‘The Oval Space’, area targeting to the riso printing: Riso printing technique is used for budget printing by mixing and overlapping number of colours together.
With the help of the same methodology, some experiments has done in my design practice for RSA Student competition.
