Friday, 2 September 2011

Time/Action_Final Diagram

 This has the same key as the Time/Body Parts diagram. 

18th - yellow
19th - green
21st - blue
22nd - purple
23rd - red
25th - orange
30th - pink

It gives a good indication about my actions/movements/routines in the bathroom and highlights what I go into the bathroom to do most often - opening & closing the doors/windows/drawers, admiring myself in the mirror, switching on and off lights/fans/heaters/taps, picking up stuff and brushing stuff or rinsing stuff.

 30th August
 25th August
 23rd August
22nd August
21st August

Time/Action dev.

18th August
 19th August
Overlapping the 18th & 19th August

 Diagramming in other ways to inform design development. These diagrams will aid me in knowing what actions are undergone most in the bathroom.

Linear Diagrams_Time/Action. 18th August

Time/Body Parts_Final Diagram

 Final Time/Body Parts diagram.
 30th August
25th August

Time/Body Parts dev.

 more overlaying - 18th, 19th and 21st
 22nd August
 23rd August
Another overlayed image. 18th, 19th, 21st, 22nd and 23rd August

Linear Diagrams_Time/Body Parts. Overlayed 18th, 19th & 21st

Yellow 18th
Green 19th
Lime 18th & 19th
Blue 21st

Linear Diagrams_Time/Body Parts. 21st August

Diagramming in other ways to inform design development. These diagrams will aid me in knowing what parts of my body are taken care of, or paid most attention to, in the bathroom.

Linear Diagrams_Time/Body Parts. Overlayed 18th & 19th

Yellow 18th
Green 19th
Lime both

...just to give an idea of how this can be used...

Linear Diagrams_Time/Body Parts. 19th August

Diagramming in other ways to inform design development. These diagrams will aid me in knowing what parts of my body are taken care of, or paid most attention to, in the bathroom.

Linear Diagrams_Time/Body Parts. 18th August


Diagramming in other ways to inform design development. These diagrams will aid me in knowing what parts of my body are taken care of, or paid most attention to, in the bathroom.

The Apartment - Georges Perec [+ Lorna's notes]









Scans of Georges Perec's The Apartment in Species of Spaces... I tried to scan in my post-it notes of comments but it wasnt working so I've re-typed them on top.

My notebook.










 SUPERVISION NOTES + IDEAS AFTER...


 Rough modelling - boxes, or pieces of paper which can be assembled and reassembled in a variety of configurations for design exploration.

 More time analysis of the diary. Using each day in 24hour table showing different types of information. 
The top one (above) is Time/Product - so dividing the use of a particular product (mentioned in the diary) into time slots according to when it was used. This will aid the positioning and reconfiguration of objects in the bathroom. 
The second (above again) is Time/Action and is dividing the actions performed within the bathroom into 24hour time slots. The bathroom could be redesigned through actions, what occurs most regularly and rarely etc. 
The last (below) is Time/Body Part, which looks at particular body parts and how often they are paid attention to in the bathroom.

Supervision w/ Ant, 9.30am

Diagrams_starting to look good. Take more care - process, craft. > Think about other dimensions/other views as only in plan.
Set up layers in Photoshop [potentially illustrator (test)] - animation palette, layers build up. Shows duration, time, action etc.
 - Could be diagram for each time I enter the bathroom as opposed to daily diagrams I've done so far. Build up layers in P/shop still. Time.
Like the Perec drawing - big list of stuff.

CRIT_think about what I want to present and what I NEED to present - could be very different things.
Figure out what I need. Have a strong direction now. Need to be able to explain what I've done since last crit - animations will help.
Think about how do I visualize my diary? Whats going on in it? Quick way of analyzing space.
WHAT HOW WHY - start to locate my work.

Ask JP if there are any diffs between when Laura Ford did her MDes to mine - what are they? - Looking at structure and it was helpful.

Be decisive! Decide what I want to do. "This is what I want to do because of...".

Once I have located myself need to see design explorations/investigations. Response to what I have done/previous studies.

THESIS DOCUMENT/SKETCH ESSAY - already on to-do list for today to structure it. Look at previous versions, see what I have done, if it needs included or not. Adapt to project now and it will clarify my direction. Once I've done the structure send through to JP/Ant (Ant on leave so send to JP and ask to comment).

Come up with strategy or process - will help me with design aspect. Diagrams are starting to do this but need to be more detailed/rigorous - width lacking, overlay width of body etc. Circles are center of body but moves to hand which is weird. Come up with system for different things - line for movement, dashed line for hand. Colour to differentiate time.

Line in Illustrator, export to Photoshop > animation. TEST before spending hours doing something that might not work. Get the workflow going today.

Exploded AXO in Sketchup? Components, reshuffle them (design explorations?). Overlay with photos, drawings. Movement diagrams - start to show me and my diaryness. Move things around.
Could be Photoshop to PPT - shows progression/animation. Shows how its built up - 50 slides showing layers.

Design_later today bust out some work. Quick charettes. Half a dozen takes on the bathroom/my bathroom. Then I have 'stuff'. "Here's some design approaches but it doesn't work because...". Even do a couple of models. Paper. Moving things around.

Set up a few models. Duration - reconfigure bathroom. Frequently used. Different uses. Reasons for being in bathroom - brushing teeth etc.

Skype later.

Reshuffle the bathroom.