29/10/24 Final Tutorial
PDF of this week’s work available here, and via a link at the bottom of this entry:
http://23045260.myblog.arts.ac.uk/files/2024/10/MECOB_MethodsofCataloguing3_lowres.pdf
ISSUU of booklet presented available here:
https://issuu.com/mecob/docs/booklet_singlepages
NOTES POST TUTORIAL:
– Original catalogue did not emphasise the buttons’ tone of voice, impact. New format of book and process of recontextualising shows their innate structure recombined for the purposes of this project.
– At the start of the tutorial, I placed 100 hand made buttons on the table and gave the group 90 seconds to choose the 14 buttons in there that have been remade, this proves that if buttons are reconfigured, they still combine and work as buttons, even in a more concentrated way, ref my critical position at the end of the above pdf.
– Emily, group member, enjoyed the exercise of identifying the buttons, agrees with my critical position above, insightful way of button structure discovery
– Tutor responded more to the draft online button maker as a possible starting point for another iteration of this work. Suggested a button design toolkit as a possibility, involving audience choice, referencing modern issues, creating buttons from raw materials and process discovered thus far.
– Broader discussion about outcomes with iterative, research-led process which I am trying to reconcile as the projects go on. Briefs do not ask for specific outcomes, and yet outcomes discussed in tutorials as well as the process to arrive at them. I’m learning to think earlier about iterative, enquiry-led working without a specific end point.
