integrative practice week 4. pughs method
for week 4 of creative technologies, I learnt how to use morphological charts and pugh's method of ideation.
using it, I worked as part of a group to try to figure out what makes a good story, by coming up with key attributes to a story, (immersion, themes, characters, etc.) come up with example details for each, and then use said examples to create 3 possible story concepts. finally, after figuring out a grading system of 1-5, we graded each concept piece on which makes for a good story.
Pugh's method is definitely incredibly useful, since you can take about any idea for a project and consider each part of it to come up with the best possible version. a chair on it's own sounds very simple, but considering each part of a chair (seat, back, arm rest, wheels, height, etc.) allows you to come up with the perfect chair for your needs.
my own project for this semester is to create some sort of experience to simulate the sensation or feelings of hearing loss. the problem I immediately face in regards to this is what kind of experience should it be, but using pugh's method, i can safely take examples of possible experiences and grade them each on different qualities i want for the project.
overall, pugh's method and the morphological chart are incredibly useful and i can easily see how i might use them myself.