TUTORIAL NOTES 160426
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BRIEFING K205 10AM
– Production Surgery w/c 27/4, extra day in London
– Make time for final photography of project before Show in June, worth at least using the library facilities.
– Project the enquiry into a different direction? What can I change about it? DIfferent format, audience, whatever. Can I project INWARDLY, change the guts of the publication. Zoom in.
– WRITING. X 2. Mini reader CONTEXTUALISES your work.
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MAIN TUTORIAL K201A 2PM
– Tutor agrees on route 1. Reworked publication for publication through a school as a piece of homework, in a shared learning space, taking in all the feedback from testing and various sources
Strength of this project will come when you meet the conditions that it will be published within. How would you upscale this from 5 test cases to a class of 30, 60…a nation. It becomes an economic thing. Go back to it, audience is confirmed. How do I now get it into the hands of that audience, them taking it home and having conversations with parents about these particular themes and issues. That movement into it being a real project, over a localized, small setting, is when it starts to take real shape. The project could have different lives. Step 1, getting it into kids and parents via the school. Then, it could grow and build into an exhibition later in life, or for older/younger demographics. Imagine it existing, making it exist in the world, then it lives and it can turn into other things. Dictated by this start.
You have a visual style emerging and the content, now THROUGH the school, the context, what are the limitations going to be? How is that visual language going to adapt or change, crystalline? The next question is going o the school and asking about the conditions and limitations, and using that as a the building blocks to work from.
Interview stakeholders to appraise it from their perspective. Execution will happen after that. Aim for second half of May to get this out to kids through the school is possible. Can it work? Let them take the lead, may not be possible.
Spoke about paper in kids’ homework, do mine come with material like this?
Discussed paper nature of it. Is there a web presence? Could I put in QR codes that could take you to further learning and encourage further depth? A set of links to help the kids and me to help the legal parameters that are present in this. Would this turn out to be kind of guerrilla?
How would you cost this? Charitable organizations? Worth investigating.
Lo-fi, economic hat on when producing would be the assumption.
Summary – speak to the school in the next stage, using very practical questions of them, and then from there what are the material parameters than can translate the current iteration into the next one.
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ACTION POINTS
– Emailed local school, Oakfield Academy (again), to ask for review of the publication and what issues would need to consider either theoretically or for actual release within the school. This needs to be quick!
– Start a new iteration of the publication, taking in all the previous feedback but also building in the online strand to it, the letter to parents. This will at least start the making in advance of hearing from the school.
– Look around yourself for references and advice, government or academic, on what kind of thing works in this context, maybe there are some details or approaches I can glean and use to guide the next stages.
– Plan, if you can, the next month
– Investigate funding of this for further steps, perhaps after MA.
– Start ABSTRACT, 200 word draft for next week.
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