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W06

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W05 Class Activity | Personal Materials

20 Objet of Importance

Hair brush - useful for looking after my curly hair which is significant as my curls are part of my heritage / family.

Gifted jewellery - these pieces are important to me as those who gifted them were intentional with their selection, choosing items which they felt reflected who I am.

Converse shoes - they are both useful for my daily life but have also been through as much as I have

Favourite pen

Note pad

Lip balm

White candles 

Silver lamp

Gifted pillow cover

Quilt 

Dining room chairs

Ink Print

Photo print

Photo album

Glass vase set x3

Plump plant pot

Indoor plants

Iced coffee 

Tea 

Mugs

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W05 Class Activity | Tutorial Notes

Materialising Pedagogies

Theory - Sweets spot - Practice

Make - Think - Reflect - Repeat

"What material form / process is best to execute a particular idea. What does the art want to be? Is it any good? And what is the value in that?"

Theory as practice - Practice as theory

Creative - Creation - Creative communities - Middle = Sweet spot

Object Space - Design Museum

Rubrik:

Contextual Enquiry - Investigation - Contemporary & historic concepts and contexts Research Skills - Communicating - Appropriate tools and methods Critical Analysis - Reflecting - Appropriate materials an resources to support inquire Synthesis - Integrating -

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W05 Class Activity | Lecture Reflection

What is material thinking?

Material thinking is the idea of 'joining the hand, eye and mind' during ones thought and ideating process. It rejects the concept that theology and conceptual thinking is the strongest mode and challanges those to more heavily involve the physical tools, materials, production and so on.

Justification

Informing the works

Grounded way of thinking

Material have their own relationships, purposes, interactions, personality etc. Therefore, it is important to think using these tools over just thoughts.

Choose on of the Creatives from the lecture and describe their material thinking?

the lecturer today spoke on her methodology in using urban landscapes and traditional or cultural materials to inform her designs. This looks like using the grit of AKL CBD as texture on her works. Similarly, she used the mats and cultural fabrics as a pattern overlay and base for her colour tones. All of these elements from her research and personal background and experiences collate together to produce a very reflective piece of her identity and perspective.

How can material thinking be seen through your own work?

Material thinking can be seen throughout my work most in the beginning stages of my ideation process as I have learned during my studies to ensure my thinking and research is as broad as it can been when starting a new project. An example of this is the work I am completing in my studio class as I have been looking into the motion and connectivity of water and the forms in which it creates. To test this concept I have including both physical experiments and pre-existing written theology as a base. This looks like using water to create shapes using a 5x5 grid of water droplets and photographing the results to digitise later. This way of experimination and using the physical tool I have available around me enables a vast bank of knowledge and resources to use in my creative thinking and later projects.

How would you reference the reading from today?

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W05 Lecture Notes

Methodology & Methods

Creatives

Creation

Creative Communities

Methodology is the like the analogy of cake in which people bake differently but gain the same result by the end. In the example, the first cake coffee grounds were added to the mixture in order to enhance the chocolate flavour. The next sivd through each ingredients to create a smoother mixture. the last used hot water in order to create this same smoothness. These differences allowed for a better process for each individual whilst reaching the same desire outcome. Wether that be a more flavourful work or a more sifted through array of research.

Cake: Creative work

Ingedients: Recourses

Baking process: Methodology

'Are you making a meal out of research?' - Research paradime

Baker: Positivism

Chef: Interpretivism

Kaimahi: Indigenous

Forager: Post Critical

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W04 SDL | Formative Preparation

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W04 SDL | Inventories

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W04 Class Activity | Inventories

Formative Design Research 

22 Aug (W06)

What influences you

Creative communities

How do I create

Use image based!

Visual research inventory: presenting findings into communities, connecting to you as a creative 

Takings that may por may not connect and lay them out to create ‘curiosity maps’. 

Visual research inventories:

Cambiom - Italian word of wood / forestry / paper Savage Club  Current Obsession  Auckland Art Gallery  MoMA  the Design Museum  Dale Zine Behance Designer Speak Up Type 01 Forensic architecture 

Designer Cabinet of Curiosity:

Husk Ltd - Food blog  Current Obsession  Cabinet of Curiosity  Royal Collection Trust 

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W04 Visual Map | Creatives Wanted

Hayley King is the creator / founder of Flox Studio. Her creative field origins started with street art across Auckland using spray paints and stensils. She later progressed and developed her skills opening her studi and producing more commercial works. Some of her most notable collaborations include working with AT and Blunt.

Though her work is not in a style I typically lean toward

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W04 Lecture Notes

Week 04 lecture

Creative Communities 

Rosanna Raymond

Savage Club 

Roll call section has a list of all the creatives in the community connected to the website

Birmingham Fierce Festival 

Emil McAvoy

Soft Launch 

Cecilia Faumuina 

Faiv | Fai Vā

Creative Skill | Nurturing Space

“Oceania is us. We are the sea, we are the ocean.”

Bede Bennett

Connecting to the design community

Internet forums 

Design assembly 

The Designer Institute 

Freelancing 

Ezra Baldwin

Cherise Cheung

Connecting people to their home cultures

Personal identity through language 

Photography 

Designer speak up poster

Capstone project: What we let the world get away

Burnout Moto:

Advocacy Ambituions Attitudes

Creative Communities:

Ākau Kātoitoi AUT The centre for design research Studio Chida - Company run by herself and her sister

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W03 Class Activity | Miro Boards

As I was away during this class I visited the Miro boards at a later date to gather information around the creative communities. This is and example of the visual maps in which we are to create independently.

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W03 Visual Map | Creatives Wanted

Karen Walker branding and product packaging design by Karen wWalker, Lloyd Osborne and Shabnam. These designs won best awards for the typeface created and applications of the type, colour and iconography.

Four Square branding and advertising by Leisa Wall, Peter Vegas and Joshua O'Neill. These designs won a best award for the typeface, photography and iconography application across NZ.

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W03 Visual Map | Design Interests

These areas of art & design are things I love and am interested in the production and product of.

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W03 Tutorial Notes

Assignment Deliverbles

Workbook: Tumblr URL Essay Portion: 1800-2200w

Title, sub title Abstract (100-200 words) The creative (400-500 words) The creation (400-500 words) The creative communities (600-800 words) This must include discussion of key ideas, context and subject specific terrain of the creatives / designers / illustrators / photographers, etc., including citation from credible sources. Conclusion: Key insights or breakthroughs in understanding and defining your practice-led design research. Your conclusion will form and frame potential practice-led research questions as future opportunities. (200-300 words). References.

NOTE: Critical reviews that do not meet the minimum word count or exceed 220 words will be penalised.

Sourcing

R - Relevant? A - Accurate? T - Timely? A - Accountable?

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W03 Lecture Notes

These notes were adapted from a peer in the W03 lecture as I was absent. I have re-worked them and followed the instructions of Canvas / lecture slides in order to understand the content I had missed.

Library Skills

Identify useful resources/collections. Practice applying search techniques to diff resources. Find help with reading, note-taking, writing, and referencing. Finding info for assignments.

Google Library AUT database

Book/ebook, filmed interview, statistics, magazines, conference talk, academic journal, image of object, studio website.

On canvas - course resources AUT library - Levels 5/6 in or online

Subject Specific Searching

AUT library website - way to search everything inside the library: books, ebooks, AUT theses, and academic articles from 2000+ databases.

AUT google scholar - google's subset of academic/scholarly writing, mainly articles, book chapters and theses. always access via library website for more full text materials | Databases on AUT library - subject/resources.

Google - can still be useful when beginning research, but don't forget to take the research further, other open sources like an archive are useful.

Bloomsbury design library - articles from design encyclopaedias, ebooks, chapters on design, biographies, images Bloomsbury Design Library BLOOMSBURY.COM

NZ Research - NZRESEARCH.ORG.NZ Artstor - LIBRARY-ARTSTOR-ORG.EZPROXY.AUT.AC.NZ Digital NZ - DIGITALNZ.ORG Kanopy - KANOPY.COM

How to library + art & design guide = resources Searching - How to (example - tactile picture books)

"Search using key words - whats ur topic? whats your question? Critical ideas? -- tactile, picture books. -- Think of other ways to describe your topic (don't know what an article may be describing something as so helps find what ur aiming for). -- tangible, interactive, haptic -- children's book, illustration books, graphic novels. -- Can get more specific, or more broad. Put any fraises in quotation marks - this keeps two words together. Jump from on source to another - to do thins you can go through the bibliography in an article and see where may have found their info. Or, you can go to google scholar and see where an article has been cited - and how they used that info. Search for other works by the same author. Look within that article for new key words. For writing, reading, note-taking help: _Your_Library on Canvas."

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W02 SDL | Pohewa Pāhewa Curators

Desna Whaanga-Schollum

“Desna’s work is connected through the exploration and articulation of cultural identity. Projects see her collaborating with a wide variety of communities, business and design professionals, artists and academics to achieve results which effect change in people, practice and place. Desna is actively involved in Māori identity design, discourse and stakeholder engagement in Aotearoa, via design consultancy, research, exhibitions, wānanga, speaking engagements and governance roles.” https://ngaaho.maori.nz/steering-committee-profile.php?mid=8&ac=srch&m=29 

Tyrone Ohia

“Tyrone Ohia (Ngāti Pūkenga, Ngāi Te Rangi) is a designer based in Tāmaki Makaurau. He was born in Tauranga, raised in Whanganui, and is founder and creative director of Extended Whānau – an award winning design studio based in Tāmaki Makaurau. Driven by visual storytelling, the studio works on a wide range of projects, with a wide range of collaborators, with the aim of elevating and promoting all aspects of te ao Māori through design;” https://www.ramp.ac.nz/speakers-and-events/tyrone-ohia/

Graham Tipene

“Graham Tipene’s artwork can be found across Tāmaki Makaurau, from the impressive concrete panels in the Waterview Tunnel and Albany’s stunning Tirohanga Whānui walking and cycling bridge, to the Central City Library and Te Ao Mārama (South Atrium) at Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira. Tipene (Ngāti Whātua, Ngāti Kahu, Ngāti Hine, Ngāti Haua, Ngāti Manu) is one of the most in-demand artists and consultants for projects that ensure te ao Māori is an intrinsic part of the urban landscape.” https://ourauckland.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/news/2022/08/people-of-midtown-artist-graham-tipene/

Johnson Witehira 

“Johnson Witehira is an artist, designer and academic of Tamahaki and Ngāi Tū-te-auru descent. He is the co-founder of both Indigenous Design and Innovation Aotearoa (IDIA) and Waahi Wairua.Since completing his doctorate in Māori Visual Art (2013), Johnson has been on a mission to bring Māori culture into all aspects of New Zealand life. He has led the development of Māori design for some of New Zealand's most prominent organisations: The Auckland City Council, TVNZ, The Auckland International Airport, and Waka Kotahi (The New Zealand Transport Authority). Other significant design projects include developing the first set of Māori alphabet blocks, co-designing the PAKU gardening tools for children and developing the first functional Māori-specific typeface.” https://semipermanent.com/profiles/johnson-witehira

Zoe Black

“Zoe Black (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Hine, Pākehā) is the deputy director of Objectspace in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. She has been working in galleries for the past eight years. Her curatorial practice has focused on community development and advocating for critically under-represented craft and object art forms. She is Norwegian Crafts' curator in residence (2020–2022), working on projects that create a dialogue between Indigenous making practices in Aotearoa and Sápmi. Zoe Black was co-editor of the third issue of The Vessel titled Embodied Knowledge.” https://vessel-magazine.no/contributors/zoe-black

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W02 SDL | Pohewa Pāhewa

“Pohewa Pāhewa celebrates Māori design practice and interrogates Western design practice through a Māori lens. Grounded in whakapapa, this exhibition shows the fundamental differences in how design practice is approached within te ao Māori and whom it is in service to.” https://www.objectspace.org.nz/exhibitions/pohewa-pahewa-a-maori-design-kaupapa/