Design Case

Introduction

2 weeks later, I came back to the week that we spend in imagination lab module. After got the feedback for our group presentation, I begin to conclude my experience in that week. In this report, firstly I will introduce the contribution that I made in the project process. Then, I will rethink about our project, the strengths and weakness of the proposal. After that, I will present about what I have learn in this module.

1.My contributions

Go though the entire project, it can be divided into 3 parts: choosing topic, developing ideas and convincing the audience.

1.1 Choosing topic

First, we need to find 5 Gunnies Record that we prefer to break. I thought if we want to break the record, we’d better find the area that we are familiar with. So I search art on the Gunnies Record website. Then I found the record of “the most plastic bags in an artwork”. Then group mate also think the record of “the most handmade element in an artwork” is interesting, so we put these two into our 5 choices. At last, since other group also chooses the topic of “the most plastic bags in an artwork” we give up this and choose from the “ Let’s gaze a star” and “making your own seeds.” (As we can see in image 1 and 2)

I consider about two topics, if we do “making your own seeds”, the number of the seed will be a large challenge for us, since the current record is “100,000,000 seeds”, but I was interested in this topic because it related to the art and the artist Ai Weiwei. On the other hand, if we choose the topic of “Let’s gaze a star” the unexpected weather condition will be the biggest challenge. So I cannot make the choice. At last, we use a coin to make the decision, so we decided to choose “making your own seed”.

1.2 Idea developing

After make the decision of choice, we begin to develop our idea. The first thing that I do is to search how Ai Weiwei did this, how long he spent, who made these seeds, and where the support came from. After got the answer of that, I think it is hard for us to follow the method that Ai Weiwei did. So, I begin to think about other methods. At last, I think asking public for help is a good choice. ’d like to encourage common people to join us in breaking the record. I thought we could use different material to make the seeds since it is easy and interesting activity for common public people. Teachers firstly may not make sense about the different material of seeds, so use different products to make the seeds. (Image 3) However, at last, we decide to use photo to collect the seeds since store and transfer so large number of seeds that made by varies material is a big problem that we cannot solve. Finally, we consider the way of exhibition of these seeds. I calculate the space