        1011 jundanianmarkreimerI made the analogy of “drawing Boot Camp” in lesson one that has proved to be quite prophetic. We began by learning to draw what we saw and not what we thought we saw. Our surface drawings in these early exercises are a far cry from the abstract representations of our subject in exercise three. There is definitely a progression in this semester from the analytical to the abstract. I have definitely honed my drawing and representation abilities and the critical analysis has challenged my ADD and proved a greater challenge than I may have anticipated at the start. I feel like I definitely am more proficient in my capacity to communicate through drawing and other visual media, my intent to others especially. I know that accurately conveying ones intent to others is critical to our industry and others as well. I think this notion of dissection and processing our subject from the outside in will reverse as we begin to construct from the inside out. When we perceive an idea we must dissect and reconstruct our building as architects or products as designers in order to realize their form. It is this essence of things real and conceived that bring our creative talents to the real world. Our ideas and notions are made into reality in our drawings and interpretations. Representations of our thoughts are ultimately brought to fruition only by our talents as draftsmen and constructors. I think lesson s in 1012 will continue to intensify these efforts to make the abstract a reality in our built environment. By encouraging our creativity and honing our representation and communication skills, we will become the purveyors of form to the constructors of our built environment The different instructors’ unique teaching methodology and personality are evident in the unique perspective given to each section and born out in our projects. The expectations and quantification of our guidelines allowed the instructors some latitude without kaos. The review process was always entertaining as were the opinions of our classmates. Their perspectives gave us a biased and candid look that we lacked as the creators. The inquiry books were a task to keep us on track and provided a record of the evolution of our learning and talents. S was a challenge for me to observe and witness the details of our physical surroundings which we often take for granted as we move through them. The scientific method begins with observation and exercise one was a logical starting point for future designers. Exercise two served to sharpen the skills and tools we use to replicate and portray our existing environment. In essence it serves as a control for us to use as a cornerstone of our world, and a place we can readily return to for analytical thought and relative comparison. As designers we will be critically observing this world and looking for clues and inspiration to improve upon those weaknesses in the built fabric of society and our structures. Exercise three is the virtual reality of these observations and the discovery of latent qualities that inspired our world in their origins. There is a personality and purpose in our environment that can only be unveiled by close examination and contemplation. Our first semester as design students was lesson in observation, reproduction, accuracy and discovery and seems to be a logical progression to learning about our design and built environment. Karen Mangum 1011 Exit Reflection One
Paola Pulido ONE I feel like success in each exercise depended on how well you grasped the concepts in the ones before. I also noticed that I never quite got the exercise while I was doing it, but after it was over looking at the big picture made a lot more sense. The learning pattern seemed to have been looking, thinking, conveying. This was why we did the exercises in the order that we did. 1 taught us to look at things in a different way, 2 had us think about the design process, and 3 had us convey our own design process. I do feel like my learning grew with each exercise. My confidence needs more work. My skills definitely grew. Before 1011 I had no experience with Photoshop, Illustrator, and charcoal. Now I can do pretty well in them, well maybe not so much Illustrator. a) I know feel that visual representation in these various mediums can be as effective as or even more effective than verbal or written representation. b)Pre 1011 it felt like it was much harder for me to formulate or even come up with my own ideas. Now it is a lot easier and I feel like I can show what I want to say, which is something I did not do very well before. c) Post 1011 I feel like analysis and inquiry are extremely important to the design process. I never thought I would say this, but the inquiry books did actually help some of the time (especially Ex 2.). d) Pre1011 I knew that designing looked easy but that it was a long process. Post 1011- Now I know A LOT more about the design process. The biggest thing I learned is that it is never ending, because you can redesign something an endless amount of times. TWO The way of looking, thinking, and conveying that was taught in 1011 will definitely carry on to 1012. Definitely my new found knowledge of the different media will carry on, that is guaranteed! In 1012 I plan to pay special attention to time. 1011 was a lot of work and the only way to accomplish it and get enough sleep was with time management. Going in to 1011 I did not really know what to expect (all I had were the rumors I heard), but now that I do 1012 should go much smoother. I will also pay more attention to detail, sometimes the smallest thing can make the biggest difference. THREE Think back through the 3 exercises and tell us what are the 'roles' of EACH of the following in the studio process: • the instructor : as an experienced guide to give you his take what path you should take to the end goal. • the project or exercise brief/handout : Spells out the tools that you will acquire or should have during the exercise, may give examples. • the review process (pinup, final jury): Actually shows you what you learned and did not learn throughout the exercise, as well as how your peers did. • the inquiry book : As a place to look back on your work and your progress. It also documents the tools and knowledge you have acquired for further use. • your fellow students: They help you to understand things better and they also push you to work harder and to stand out. • the studio space itself : A great outlet for creativity, thinking, and making. Its very open and since you work openly with your space its almost as if you can share/trade ideas and skills. The studio learning experience is amazing. It is far more hands on and interactive than any other environment. You also get a chance to show your individual work and progress, something that you do not get much of in the classroom. In a lecture hall environment your pushed to stay at the norm, you’ll be fine if you stay with the curve, but in studio it is better to stand out. FOUR Ex.1 De-familiarize yourself with your normal everyday way of looking at things. Ex. 2 See how others thought when they designed. Learn how design affects many aspects of life. Learn to think in a manner that carries all of your previously gained knowledge through. Ex. 3 Convey all that you have learned visually, uniquely, and clearly. Do this in as many ways possible, but they have to make sense and must be rich with information. Basically show everyone what you learned. Rebekah Hogue 1011 Exit Reflection One I can remember writing the reflections and thinking about things I would have done differently even with that small amount of hindsight; now that even more time has passed, I am even more able to see changes I would have made as well as the value of each exercise. One interesting pattern I have found is in my feelings toward each exercise. In the beginning, and during each exercise, I often felt lost and did not see the point of what we were doing, however, afterwards, I came to realize useful aspects of each project and see that they weren’t that bad. I can definitely see improvement in my skills over the course of this semester. Each exercise has added to my understanding and mastery of the various concepts we were intended to learn in this class. Prior to beginning 1011, I had absolutely no idea what to expect from CFY or even the architecture program itself. I had very little background in art or anything else remotely close to this class, so I would say that my skills in looking, thinking, drawing, exploring, etc. have done nothing but improve. I am very pleased with my progress and the work that I have done in this class. Two All of my thinking, making, drawing, and photoshop/computer, skills gained in 1011 will be useful in 1012 as well as future classes. In 1012, I hope to improve even further on these skills, especially the computer ones, since it appears that the higher classes use computer generated media for many of their presentations. Three The instructor serves to provide guidance and direction and generally supervise the class as they go through the project. My instructor often acted as a sounding board for our class’s ideas. The “role” of the exercise brief is pretty obvious: they were instructions for how to complete each exercise. These reinforced the role of the instructor, because many of them would have been impossible to understand without an explanation. The review process was possibly my favorite part of each exercise. I liked them because they were an ending point for each project; something to work toward. It was really good to see a finished product and culmination of my work pinned up on the boards. It was also nice to get others’ feedback on my work and different perspectives on what I did. The inquiry book served as a means to reflect on my interpretations and ideas about my work, while my fellow students offered their own unique input. The studio space served as a place for all of the CFY students to gather not only to work but also to commune with one another. I know that I have become very close with some of my fellow architecture students, and I believe it was our studio space that allowed us to do this. Studio was a completely separate experience from any other learning environment I have known. In most situations, a class has a specific goal that students work toward, and the space is geared toward that goal. For example: in a lab there is a certain experiment that must be done and the equipment and supplies there cater to that, in a lecture, students are to focus on a speaker, and the room is set up to direct students’ focus toward a stage or podium where that speaker would be. In studio, the overall goals are the same, but there is a lot more freedom in how a student can get there and the space definitely reflects that. Four Exercise one reminded me of my intro to art class in high school. As a class, we learned about looking at what we were drawing and to draw what we actually saw rather than what we thought it should look like. Another point of this exercise was to explore different media and drawing types. We concluded the exercise by studying light and how it plays on surfaces from cloth to glass. For exercise two, we studied everything that goes into designing and fabricating a specific object: for me it was a slipper. This project ended up being really interesting because I had never really thought in depth about the design process for anything. Although the purpose was very different, this exercise still managed to incorporate some of the looking and thinking skills developed in exercise one. Finally, exercise three used elements from both the previous projects and challenged us to make something competition worthy. We had to use our thinking and looking skills from exercise one to further examine material qualities discovered in exercise two create “riffs” that were a step further than both. There were aspects of each exercise that I truly enjoyed, but my favorite overall was exercise one. I really had no idea what to expect from 1011, and I had no idea what I could do. Exercise one helped me develop skills that I used throughout the entire semester and helped me be confident to take on the other exercises. Jack Nuttmann ONE Well to start with I see that this all was new to me and it took me some time to realize exactly what I wanted to do with each exercise. I noticed that I am still realizing that I need to put more time into my thinking and the time I put into my work. What I noticed is I need to keep an open mind in all my work. A lot of this is trying to be new and original with my work. I felt frustrated with some of the work, it was cumulative but I got tired of using old work on my new work. The changes in a) I felt I changed a lot, and b) I’m still working on, and c) is the same as b I am still working on, and d) designing I feel we did little of TWO The most I learned from 1011 was that I had a lot of areas I still need work on, and that I need to put more time into my artwork. I also learned I must keep an open mind. I plan to pay special attention to things that we will carry on into the next section. THREE The instructor gives us guidance and teaches us new ways to approach and carry out our work. The project gives us the guidance and what is expected us. The review process helps us learn our material and what we could do differently. The inquiry book is our review and reminds us of what we learned. The students help give different viewpoints and keep me focused. The studio gives us a place to work, but at the same time is distracting. The studio was actually distracting to me, I didn’t like the work area it didn’t help me focus. In comparison, it’s not as personal, it’s not clean, and I don’t feel the inspiration. FOUR The first exercise opened our minds open to detail and taking our time. The second one opened our mind to more than meets the mind and set us up for the second one, and the third one took aspects of the second and riffed them. I enjoyed the second one the most. I liked looking beyond the skin. Katherine King ONE A motif that I see throughout my comments on each exercise is the challenge of working with new mediums, but at the same time always mentioning how in the end they really did improve my methods of data collecting and drawing overall. In each exercise I always took away something new about how to process information and how to present it to an audience. I think this is what each exercise has taught me the most, and now I have a much more honed sense of how to concisely present what I have observed. I absolutely think that I have grown as a design student both in my skills and in my awareness of the design world around me. I notice things that are beyond a first glance, and appreciate more in the design of objects and buildings now. In drawings, I’ve learned that the beauty of one lies embedded in what is trying to be conveyed. This doesn’t mean necessarily if it is appealing to the eye, but rather that it gets the deeper meaning conveyed across. TWO I will carry on practically everything I learned from 1011, from drawing skills, to the way I present information, to how I observe the subjects I am studying. In 1012 I plan to work on my presentation skills as far as page layout goes, and how I present information. Also, I would like to sharpen my skills in each drawing medium, and hopefully become adept with all of the Adobe programs. THREE The instructor is there to give us wisdom and advice as to how the exercises should be done. They are not necessarily there to tell us exactly what to do, but rather are there to guide us if we stray off to far in one direction or completely miss the point. The same goes for the handouts: they are there to guide us, but we are still allowed artistic license and interpretation. The review process is a test of how well we conveyed the information we collected, and helps us realize where our strengths and weaknesses lie, and where we need to improve. They are a feedback process that helps us hone our skills. The inquiry book was a reference in case I wanted to know what the best way was to collect data, and what medium would be the best. My fellow students are there to give me feedback, keep my sanity, and for me to compare my work with. The studio space itself was a space in which I could be creative, and I thoroughly enjoyed the atmosphere when I was there, not matter what time of day. FOUR For exercise one, the goal was to increase our skills in drawing techniques, and get our feet wet in collecting data. Exercise two delved into more data collecting, and focused in on one object for us to study. This exercise provided an experience of observance of a subject over a long period of time, as well as thorough investigation. Exercise three was about a cumulative test of the skills we had learned over each exercise, and required us to be selective of how we used those skills we had learned. My favorite exercise was Exercise one because of the mass amounts of drawing we had to do with different kinds of medium and techniques. I learned the most from that exercise, and will continue to use those skills through Studio 1012. 1011 exit reflection One I think note taking and commenting these exercise with reflection helped me a lot to reveal my past and remember to think about them. Personally the most important thing during this course was the development. I could see that there are patterns and relations from one exercise to another by looking at the reflections and the works. I could clearly see that there are development from exercise 1 to 3 by learning basic concept to the learning what I want to learn. I definitely know for sure that I have growth in learning skill both in terms of understanding and skill. I could prove it by showing the work from exercise 1 and the work from exercise 3. In terms of characterizing, I guess I look objects differently. Before taking this course, something was something and that was that. However, I have more focus on each concept and criteria of a simple object. Two I think that learning in 1011 was mostly about Industrial Design. Therefore, on 1012, there should be some sort of architecture relationship with learning because this college is the college of architecture. Since my major is architecture, I plan to focus more on buildings and designing with AutoCADs especially some important skills that I need to learn to go through the architectural life. THREE • The instructor –helping out students to understand the important criteria of objection • The project or exercise brief/handout-helps students to focus on which part of the assignment should be fixed and organized themselves. • The review process (pinup, final jury)-helps students to critically understand the miscomprehension of the ambiguous work and applause students who did really good job on their work. • The inquiry book – helps students to remember their project and also helps to re-think about the past assignments. • your fellow students –help out each other to overcome the difficulties • the studio space itself-make myself look like I am at home and I could do anything freely To be honest, learning is studio gives a feeling that I could not describe in word. Being is studio makes me think that I can do whatever I can on the piece of paper. With that newsprint and a pencil from an art bin could result a fabulous invention of art. FOUR 3 exercise that we did over the past semester are all related to each other. From learning basic skills to achieving the new conceptual idea was the step to finish this course. My favorite exercise was the last one because I learned something that I really had an interest on and focus on what I really wanted to do. 1011 Reflection I find my self criticizing both the assignments and my self a lot, showing my tendency to want to see things better than they are now. I frequently make a lot of connections to my own life, what I’m doing, who I’m interacting with, how I’m relating. In each exercise I encountered a different problem. At the end of each exercise I find myself wanted to go back and redo things with new knowledge, also most so that I can learn what was originally intended to be learned, rather than what I learned about myself. I do feel more confident in approaching professors and asking how I can walk away from an assignment with more knowledge about myself and the design world. I feel like I’m starting to overcome my tendency towards paralysis when I don’t understand something. I’m not there yet, but since it has been brought to my attention I have more actively sought help when I’ve been confused. I feel more comfortable with a pencil and prefer it when I’m working things out. I feel more confident about my ability to represent what is in my head. I am beginning to make more connections to other sources and to make design make sense in the context of my past knowledge bases. I do think that I’m am more inquisitive and look at objects differently than I used to. I can’t wait to get to the designing part! Perseverance. Studio takes a lot of patience and endurance. A lot of the learning we do is just that, doing. Learning by doing. This knowledge will be very important in 1012. Knowledge of representations will also be important. Knowing which kind of pencil to use when and what kind of eraser is best. I want to pay close attention to what the goals of each assignment are from the beginning because that helps me stay focused through out the assignment. Roles:
I loved learning in studio. I wish that there were more classes that were open enough to consider the student’s opinions and instructor’s at the same time. I feel like so often the instructor/professor is telling you what is right and what is wrong and I don’t think there are that many things that are so concrete that the teacher can’t learn from the student. It was the kind of atmosphere that I had wanted in high school. Exercise one was to give us the tools to represent stuff. We were also disengaging from the idea that a drawing could be only beautiful and adding the idea that drawing can be both investigative and informationally rich. When we shifted to exercise two we used our representation skills from exercise 1 and started to think more about design and the process that an object goes through and all the decisions that were made and why. Exercise three took the design process we learned about and turned it upside down, asking us to design in the sense of being able go through a process and represent that process logically to others so that they can read it. (even though I didn’t feel like I was designing the whole time). Andrew Hong 1011 Exit Reflection ONE The most important thing to note would be ‘growth’ – the acquisition of a wide range of investigatory tools and concepts that started off small and grew with each passing day. Because the exercises and sub-exercises ranged differently in material and procedure, I was able to grow, evolve into someone who can properly inquire, investigate, understand and present something that fascinates me. Though the exercises differed in material, they were all the same in the fact that small steps were taken. Nothing was jumped into right away – rather we took our time and created a process. For example, the drape study – we did not jump into it right away, we were not handed charcoal and told to draw the ridges and valleys. Our instructor started out the classes with blind contour drawings – these were important because they helped us look at every single detail and to draw what really exists, not what we just perceive to be there. I believe that I grew substantially as a design student. After doing these Exercises and participating in the competition, I better understand myself along with the design and built environment. Before I entered studio, I had trouble understanding why things are made the way they are. “Because it looks cool” simply isn’t the correct and informative answer that should be given. By inquisition and investigation exercises, I am now able to study objects and give reasons why they’re made the way they are. And after truly understanding this, I am now able to design on my own, along with improving already made objects. TWO “Learning” would translate into inquisition, investigation and of course reflection – being able to look back and explain why, how and what. I plan to use my toolbox of the skills I’ve acquired in 1012. I have a feeling that 1012 may focus on a different subject matter, as 1011 focused mostly on objects (ex. 2 and ex. 3). I will try to find relationships between all exercises and use the same mental process that was taken during the first semester. THREE The instructor: for beginners like us, there needs to be an instructor to help guide and answer questions. If I was told to complete all 3 exercises on my own, without the help of an instructor, I would simply be lost and hopeless. Handout: it exists to give us guidelines of what is expected and how the study should be approached and successfully completed. The review process: there must be a time for reflection and a time to share with others what you have learned. There are also reviewers to comment and critique. If there was something that you might’ve forgotten, the reviewer will bring it into discussion and help you understand another point of view. Inquiry book: documentation is very important because it allows you to look back and reflect upon what you’ve done. It also shows what you were thinking while you made the drawing/model/photographs. Fellow students: perhaps one of the most exciting ‘tools’. Your peers can review your work and give you new ideas or suggestions for improvement. You can also do the same for them. Studio environment: I believe that the studio is not the only room where learning can take place. It is a nice environment however, as your fellow students are only an arms length away. If you are having trouble with something, you are free to ask for their opinions and input. Learning is a universal thing – it takes time and good learning incorporates the use of steps and a clear process. However the studio learning process is much different than say, the training done at McDonalds for frying chicken nuggets. Studio required much more mental thinking and investigation opened our minds to new things. FOUR I believe that the three exercises were presented to us in a very well thought out manner, as we could not do exercise 3 before completing exercise 2 or even exercise 1. The skills that we learned are self reliant upon one another and they manner that they are learned must be ordered in accordance to what is required at the given moment. Exercise 1 started out with intense looking and carefully built up to creating compositions through a wide range of tools. Exercise 2 again incorporated intense looking to help us investigate our object of study. Exercise 3 built off of exercise 2 by allowing us to riff on the qualities of a particular part, whole, or system. My favorite exercise was exercise 3 because I really enjoyed the riffing, testing of theories, model building, experimentation, and documentation. I acquired numerous skills while preparing for the competition and I know for sure that they will be handy next semester. Jungwoo Ok 1011 Exit Reflection ONE As I re-read the reflections for exercise 1, 2, and 3, I think the skill of approaching the object and the way of description was the most notable change for me. From the beginning of the class, it was all about deep investigation of objects with various methods of description. I could learn how to approach the object as I developed step by step with divergent ideas. In exercise 1, I learned the different way of artistic description. Objects were described variously according to how I drew them. Exercise 2 was about deep investigation of the certain object. What can you extract from the object? How are the fabrications of the object related? These were the questions that I had to consider. In exercise 3, it was about developing creative idea that does not have limitation or certain formation to follow. Making your own way and gradually developing were main point of the exercise 3. From exercise 1 to 3, it was a correlated series of learning about the object. As I moved on to next step, I needed to consider what I had done in previous section. I could not notice when I was doing the project, but after I finished it, I could see that I used many information earned from previous exercises. At the beginning of the class, I learned simple and basic drawing skills such as blind contour, figure drawings, surface studies, space studies, and light studies. But at the end of the semester, I realized that those were the fundamental skills for what I had done in post exercise in class. My point of view changed from looking objects for one specific part to widely but deeply looking at the object as a whole. I could find many possibilities for one specific idea later in the class. TWO I think I need to bring every skill I learned in 1011 to 1012 class. Especially, the principles and concept of the exercise 3 will be the best one to carry on to 1012 class. Designing comes from the creative thought that has one’s personal and particular idea. I do not know what I will be doing in 1012, but I guess 1012 class will focus more on individual way to approaching the exercise. Diverging and converging ideas will be applied a lot in 1012. THREE Instructor: helping out the students from the deviation when they are doing the exercises in class. The most important assistant for students.
FOUR It seems like 3 exercises are all separated but they are correlated to each other. As I said, skills were used over and over again as I moved on to next exercise. Various description of the object with detailed drawing was the pedagogical goal for first exercise. Deep investigation and operation that contain object’s internal and external values were second exercise’s pedagogical goals. Using knowledge from ex 1 and 2 with more variety of idea and creative thought was the pedagogical goal for exercise 3. My favorite one was the perspective drawing. Solid description of the building and the view into 3 dimensional appearances in paper was interesting for me to draw. I could quickly learn and understand the concept of the exercise for this one. Cait Meree 1011 Exit Reflection: 1. As I re-read my past reflections, I realize that everything built upon each other. Though we did not actually hand draw much for exercise 3, the intense looking that we learned and practiced through exercise 1 and 2 was used extensively. Rigorous, mental investigation was used heavily in exercise 3, and instead of hand documentation, digital documentation was used. Through exercises 1, 2, and 3, I learned a different way of looking at the world. I learned how to critically look at images as more than just pictures, but a different way of communication, almost like a separate language. I learned how models can represent not only three dimensional representations of pictures, but that they can also be ways of testing theories that images describe in the real world. I learned that designing is not something that occurs immediately, but comes about through the long, drawn out process of modification and investigation. 2. The learning I learned in 1011 that I will be carrying on to future classes is the process of critical investigation. I will carry on the skills I learned in critical looking and the modification thought process. I learned the importance of detail, and doing everything for a reason. I learned that nothing is wrong unless you can’t clearly trace how you came to that answer. 3. The instructor: The instructor is there to guide the student in making educated decisions. The project or exercise brief/handout: The handout is another aid in addition to the instructor in helping the student make educated design decisions and learn the design process. The handout is like the written notes for the student. The review process (pinup, final jury): The review process is there to give constructive criticism to the student so that they will be able to fix and learn from their mistakes. The inquiry book: The inquiry book acts as a journal or notebook for the student, so that the student can look back on previous work and take the knowledge learned from the work and apply it to the current work. Your Fellow Students: The fellow students are there for support and creative encouragement. By talking to your peer and learning from their projects, you can learn how to make your project better and how to think a little bit differently. Design isn’t about living in your own box, it’s about sharing other peoples box. The studio space itself: The studio space itself is there as a workplace for the student. It is the environment created especially for the student so that the student knows that when they are in the studio environment, there is only “thinking and making” going on, just like whe you are in a classroom, you know that you are doing strict learning, or when you are in the lab, you are using safe lab practices and also doing learning and investigation. 4. The three exercises that were given this semester were given to first teach the student a knew and creative way of looking at and investigating the world. Then, a structured project of investigation was given in order to show how the newly learned techniques of critical looking and investigation can be applied. Exercise three then challenge the student to use the investigation of exercise one, the method of exercise two, and redesign something with the knowledge gained form exercise 2 that was not the object from exercise 2. My favorite exercise was exercise 2. I liked investigating the shoe and “reverse engineering” it to see how exactly it was created. Wenwen zhao ONE To help you take stock, please review your reflection postings for exercises 1, 2, and 3. Re-read yours (and others' as well, if you want) in one sitting. Then respond to the following: • As you re-read them now – with the advantage of distance, experience, and hindsight – what strikes you as worth noting and commenting upon? I think the most striking through this class is how those exercises was be able to change the way of thinking. I think from the very first class we had to do the bland contour drawing I begin to see abject differently then I use to do. Because the way each exercises is not only challenge us to get the work done but more of challenge us to see and discover and finally to design to put your idea in a comment object is the most worth noting through this half year of work. • Are there any patterns that you can discern in the learning that occurred in each exercise? I think the only patterns that I can find in those exercises are that each one of them plays a role in the next. Each one is basic on the experience and knowledge we have learned. Everything build on top of each other and by the end it all come together and I feel like I am thinking and seeing design and everyday object differently now. They work like magic • Do you discern a cumulative growth in learning (in confidence, in skills, in understanding etc.), in yourself? I think I have grown my learning skills. Before this class I have never though I can pull an all nightter for anything. But I find myself doing that happily. I find myself enjoying doing this kind of work I think is a good sing it tells me I really like this subject. On top of that I pull off so many dead lines, and each time I do that successfully I think I just had a little more of self-esteem. From all that hard work I am able to tell myself that I can do it anything. That is the biggest growth both in learning/school work but in life too. I am glad that I had this experience and opportunity to feel this way. • Can you characterize the change, from pre 1011 to post-1011, that has occurred in the way you think/thought about: a) drawings, modelling and other types of representations; b) the process of formulating and exploring ideas; c) analysis and inquiry; d) designing. In drawing I don’t think I have changed a lot in the way of thinking, but I learn a lot of different types of drawing techniques that will help me in the long run. in modeling, I understand now that to mean of a mode, to build a mode is to show something other method can not show not just to make to just to make. I think it is important to construct the meaning of the mode before you build it, not just build and see what it can show after. The most important thing that I learn in this class is the way of thinking to formulating and exploring ideas. This is the first time I have to formulate and explore a design idea is both exciding and hard. Now I know how to analysis the object I have in hand and form that I know I need to pull out something that is interesting or unique. I also learn a lot of how to speak with photos and different kind of graphic techniques. TWO In order to encourage you to play an active part in your own learning, we would like you to think about and respond to the following: • Identify the 'learning' in 1011 that you think you will carry forward to 1012 I think most likely everything. The drawing skills the touch on how to design and the way of how should we keep design in mind when we look everyday objects. • What do you plan to pay special attention to in 1012? I want to learn more about architecture, and I want to learn more way of thinking of how to design how to make good design. the way of think of a designer really fascinate me. THREE Finally two questions about the studio workshop process. Think back through the 3 exercises and tell us what are the 'roles' of EACH of the following in the studio process: • the instructor : a guide, a person you can go look for answers, very helpful and important. • the project or exercise brief/handout: basic instruction helpful only in the beginning of the project. • the review process (pinup, final jury): very helpful and open our eyes to other people’s work. To learn from people. • the inquiry book: not very helpful yet I think is time consuming and I never use it as of yet. • your fellow students: very helpful, help to solve confusions, and share interpretations on the projects • the studio space itself: helpful. Give some please I can go to do my work but sometime it gets too crowed then I can not concentrate. FOUR We would like you to reflect back over the semester and see if you can make sense of the three exercises and the sequence in which they unfolded. Briefly characterize what you think were the pedagogical goals for each and why they played out in the sequence that they did. Then tell us which was your favorite and why. I think the lineout of the semester make sense, first we got the basic skill down as a good drawer and learn to represent your thoughts with different graphic techniques, then we learn to investigate then we learn to design. is a very helpful lineout . my favorite part is to ex-3 really challenge me to think the way designer have to think. Interesting. Ryan Kreidler 1011 Exit Reflection All the excercises seem to be very important in sculpting us and preparing us for things to come. Each excercise seemed to have a different lesson for us to learn. The first really just taught us our basic drawing and investigation skills. The second taught us how to break down any object that is given to us. The third taught us how to think without any real direction and how to explore features of things that might not relate otherwise. I do feel I grew a great bit in different ways with each assignmetn we did. I changed how I do things and how I go about doing things for the better. I became a lot more confident in my skills and my understanding of everyday objects. I wouldnt say my drawing skills have changed at all. I did develop charcoal skills which I had not previously used and learned to represent things in this medium. I definately learned how to formulate and explore ideas when I dont really know where to start. I feel I can analyze objects and break them down to gain a better understanding. I think the last excercise helped me gain an understanding of design. I learned there is no set guide to follow. I have to explore different features of the object I am designing and I can search for inspiration in qualities of completely different objects. I am not really sure what we will be doing in 1012, but I do feel prepared to take on whatever comes next. I think the assignments we have done so far have built me in many different ways to prepare for it. I know how to go about a big assignment when I dont know where to start and I have the drawing skills to do it. I plan to pay attention to the overall concepts that are taught to us in 1012. I can't say exactly what I plan to pay special attention to because I dont know what were doing. The instructor is there to guide us on what we should be doing and to assess our progress. The briefing handouts were telling us what the point of the assignment at hand was. The review process was to allow us to see what we have done from a distance. Sometime you get lost in all of it so you need the review to stand back and understand everything you have done. The inquiry books are huge in the learning portion of the class and in remembering what you have done. My fellow students are there as resources. They are doing the same assigment as me, but we all think differently and may go about it in different ways. It is important to compare ideas so we all grow in more ways than we would have by ourselves. The studio space allows us a place to think and work with our fellow classmates. it is more important than the class room and seminars. I am not familiar with the lab or workshop... I did not find a single tutorial to be helpful in the least. I think an internship would be helpful in gaining an understanding for the job. I think the first excercise just taught us basics. It taught us the basic steps in breaking things down and it taught us basic drawing skills so we can document what we see. This helped us in the second excercise where we learned to break down a single object and learn everything about it. This lead into the third one where we learned how to design. We had to work with no real direction and learn to abstract qualities from objects and understand the concept of that basic quality before trying to design anything. Each excercise built up the qualities we needed for the next. My favorite was the first. I felt it had the most thought put into it and it developed me the most. Although I understand the basic point of the last excercise, it seemed poorly developed and ended up way too confusing for the amount of time we had and the work that was expected from us. If this can be developed sharper and more to the point it has the potential to be a good excercise. Adrienne Bozeman 12/12/07 1011 Exit Reflection One Going over the reflections that I have written over the semester, I can clearly see the multitude of things that I have learned. I have gained an appreciation for the thought process involved in investigation that I didn’t expect to be such a prominent part of this course at the beginning. I have also taken away a large variety of drawings types used in different mediums that were completely new to me that I think I have begun to master. It’s also encouraging to look back at what we have focused on in each section over the course and see how it has applied to the last exercise we completed. I have come away with a new way of looking at the world, investigating deeply even the slightest nuances, and taking advantage of every opportunity to go farther, work more broadly, and include all of my knowledge, experience, and investigation. Two I feel that my expanded view of the world around me, this intense looking and intelligent thought process, is “learning” that I will carry forward into 1012. The many different techniques used for documentation of the world around me are another skill that I have learned and will be very useful next semester. In 1012 I plan to pay special attention to the thought process that goes into every exercise in order to take away the most beneficial part of the class to apply to my career. Three The instructor is important to CFY because he provides guidance but doesn’t spoon feed you everything. The project handout is helpful for instruction as well as ideas or examples but is also left up to your own interpretation. The review process provides the student with feedback on their work and ways to improve it from another point of view because it is so easy to get absorbed in your own work and not realize you are going the wrong direction completely. The inquiry book acts as a reference to see where you have come from and remind you of the techniques and skills that you have learned along the way. The atmosphere of having students around you all the time working next to you in the studio and participating in your review gives to a network of peers to bounce ideas off of and help see the different points of view based on generation and experience. And last, the CFY studio space itself allows for a large workspace that is conducive to brainstorming, camaraderie, and ultimately producing high quality, well-informed work. All of these factors contribute to an environment that gives more individual instruction and collaborative feedback than a regular classroom. It also gives the appearance of a lab with many people working side-by-side and having the opportunity to talk among each other that leads to new ideas, experiments, and discoveries. Four The goal of exercise one was to give us the skills in many different media and drawing types to put onto paper what we were seeing. It also taught us how to look intensely at an object which was a key strand in exercise two and three. Exercise two was formulated so that we would know how to look at an object and work backwards to figure out the process in which it was made and the decisions behind it. Exercise three was taking what you already knew and expanding upon it to come up with something new. My favorite exercise was probably the first one because of the concrete nature of documenting exactly what I was seeing. I enjoyed learning about the different types of drawing methods and the feelings that each one indicated. Although the light studies took many more hours than some of the other sections, it was my favorite because I got to experiment with the light and how it played off the class and then create a final product which hopefully captured my findings. Sarah Ivester 1. Looking back, I think some of the most important things that I learned from this class had to do with the different views and angles that are used to look at an object when drawing that were used in each exercise. Taking pictures also has to do with these views. A product can be looked at from far away or close up, right side up or upside down. It can be straight on or from some crazy corner view. Also, there are different drawing techniques and materials that affect the outcome of a picture, and can also make it persuasive or not. It is also important to record work as it is done and to make comments on it so that it can be used as a reference later. This is important because each exercise uses skills that were learned in the previous exercises. The exercises are put in a certain order for a reason. Since the beginning of the class to now, I know that I have learned more about detailing in drawings and looking more closely at objects; paying more attention to the space or mass of the object rather than the lines that create it. 2. What I learned and will take to 1012 will most likely have to do with paying close attention to detail and focusing more on how to use programs like Photoshop and Illustrator. It will help that I now know how to look past the façade of something and look into its DNA. Next semester, I need to focus more on the vocabulary and try harder to understand what is being asked of me in an exercise. I also need to make sure I am keeping my work documented properly. 3.
4. I though that the first exercise was a basic tutorial of how to draw and how to use different materials to the best potential. The second exercise used the drawing and perspective skills from the first to focus on details and looking more closely at an object. We also looked into the DNA of the object rather than just the façade. In the third exercise we used the first and second exercises to go way past the look of something and got into taking apart the characteristics of an object. We found the ideas behind the object and how those ideas could be used for something else, completely different. My favorite was the first exercise because it was more basic than the others and was more oriented to any kind of art, while exercises 2 and 3 were more concentrated. Rebecca Fenster ONE In each exercise I was reminded of the importance of intense looking and thorough investigation. I feel that as the exercises went on I continued to get a better with my investigations. In the beginning, I wasn’t sure how to really do a meaningful or informative investigation but as the exercises went on I got more confident with my investigations and I was able to do more meaningful investigations. Before I had taken 1011 I had never really thought of drawing as an investigatory tool, however, after taking the class I see it that drawing in fact can be a way of performing investigation. This class also has changed the way in which I view the world and look at things. I am far more attentive and notice much more detail in everyday objects. TWO I learned many important skills in 1011 many of which I will carry forward to 1012. I will use my skills of intense looking and performing meaningful investigations in 1012. I will also learn my new time management skills so that my work doesn’t pile up on me. THREE The instructor is in studio for guidance. The handouts help to explain what we are to be doing or working on, and the instructor is there to give even further clarification. He also makes sure that we are on the right track and pursuing our ideas in good meaningful ways. I feel the review process of pin-ups is very beneficial. It not only allows us to get our peers opinions about our work but we can also see what our peers are doing and working on and get inspiration and new ideas based on their work. As for the final reviews I think they’re very helpful in making the entire exercise come together, at the final reviews I feel it is most effective in showing us why we did everything we did and how it all related. FOUR The pedagogical goals of exercise 1 were a way to ease us into the studio class. It is unlike any other class one can take so it takes some getting used to. Exercise one was also a way of teaching us about intense looking, drawing techniques, and intense looking. I feel it went the way it did because we continued to build upon the skills we learned in each assignment for the following assignments, so it really couldn’t have been executed in any other order. Exercise 2 was supposed to teach us more investigative skills, and to learn to make connections based on information we find through investigation. First we had to get to know our object and then we went into the investigations. We could not thoroughly investigate our objects before we really got to know our object well. Exercise 3 was designed to teach us about the design process. It too was executed in a significant way. We first had to identify what fascinated us before we could riff on it and then come up with some sort of design idea. This too could not have happened in any other order. My favorite exercise was exercise 1. I am a very concrete persona and as the exercises went on they continued to get more and more vague. Exercise 1 was the most specific about what we were to do and draw. Link to this Page
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