Good Start Bad Start

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Semester 1 : Weeks 1-2 Phase 1
Good Start Bad Start workshop – Establish research focuses create research & action plan :

• Brain Storm,
• Sketching
• Case Studies
• Visual Research
• Sketching
• Visits / Field trips.

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For Mondays activity we had to work in pairs and note down : 25 min

• what makes you cry
• makes you Laugh
• gets you excited
• gets you angry
• stimulates you intellectually
• interests you

For this exercise, I worked with Esi. I wrote in green whilst she wrote in black . We did this activity to help us formulate ideas that we would be interested or just wanted to dive deeper for our upcoming presentation in week 3. Majority of our answers were similar.

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For the next 45 minutes, we had to pick apart and pick 4 /5 answers from the previous tasks. We picked makeup, stress, sad endings and injustice. To pick apart these words we used the Lotus blossom technique. Me writing in red and Esi writing in black . It was a good way of thinking of new ideas whilst still being connected to the key word even if we didn’t do it accurately.

More info : The Lotus Blossom Creative Technique

The Lotus Blossom technique focuses on areas of interest. Through the use of a visual representation of ideas and is similar to a mind-map, but is more structured and pushes you in ways you don’t experience in classic mind-mapping.

The process :

1. Enter a problem to be solved, an item to be improved, or a theme to be examined in the center box.(Box I above)
2. Brainstorm related components, solutions or themes and put these in the boxes immediately surrounding the center box.  (Boxes A-H above)
3. The values from those boxes should now be used as the center of the eight lotus blossoms on the outer edges of the sheet.
4. Brainstorm related components, solutions or themes and enter these in the eight boxes surrounding each of the new center seeds for each outer lotus blossom. Try your best to complete all of the blossoms to maximize ideas.
5. Upon completion you will have at least 64 new ideas related to the original problem or theme.

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After realising that my first attempt of this technique was done inaccurately, I wanted to try the method again in a second attempt. My keywords were Harry Potter, Folklore, Music, Eras, Movies, Art, Nepal and Greek mythology. I’ve been interested in each of the chosen words I picked for a while, and I wouldn’t mind learning more about them or doing further study on them. For the words surrounding each word, It could either be related in how it made me feel or what I saw.

Continue to – Final choices ˋ°•*⁀➷