What (do you want to investigate)
Why (do you want to investigate)
How (does it relate to you?)
How (will you proceed)
By following the four main questions when researching, you're able to come up with an efficient way of explaining yourself through research, which I took to myself when starting my first project, Cybernetic Self. This also helps if you're stuck and don't know where to start, a good ideal is to begin by using the four questions and it enables you to explain yourself in a more competent manner.
Further into this seminar we looked at our own development and how, with the seminars and theory lectures, we'd be able to go from starting in year one to becoming fully fledged creative students in the final year.
Year 1 - Foundation, Year 2 - Transformation, Year 3 - Professional, Year 4 - Independence and Originality
This year is focused on transforming into our own independent, self working creative person, which allows us to manage our own time, work and ethics. This would be applied in the third year for placement and allow us to gain some real experience into the working world.
We then applied our research methods we'd learnt into a rebranding for a museum called The Whitney. Applying these questions to a piece of writing enabled us to extract and learn quite a lot about the website, illustrating the change in the museum and how the designers approached the assignment as to "embrace the spirit of the museum"I'd associate the Whitney rebrand with likeness such as the BBC (2+3), Channel 4, and Sky Cinema rebranding; making themselves more modern and interactive with their audience.
Overall I enjoyed my first seminar back. They felt more related to the course compared to the first year, and allowed me to start immediately applying what I'd learned into my current project. It proved interesting and let me work alongside my peers, which I'd really liked too.
