In our first seminar, we were given the word "Genealogy"
the commonly understood emergence of various philosophical and social beliefs by attempting to account for the scope, breadth or totality of ideology within the time period in question, as opposed to focusing on a singular or dominant ideology.
This was presented to us in groups which allowed us to explore the potential possibilities from a saying, for example, our group looked at the possibility of everyone being obsessed with themselves. Although a silly idea, we were able to come up with potential solutions/products quickly in the time given - we also expanded this look at how this would effect the economy, social circles, appearance and industries (such as fashion etc)
Allowing us to quickly come up with ideas in less than ten minutes serves as good practice for pitching ideas in the future on the graphics course, as well as this it shows the potential to take one idea and all the "branches" that come away from this - one idea could be taken and expanded upon immensely if you look at it from several points of view and how this effects the environment)
This seemed like a pointless exercise at first although I benefited from being able to group up and talk to people, as well as quickly brain storming ideas which I'm not usually accustomed to doing.
