Summary

Great ideas Louis!

Here is a follow up from today's agreements.

Problem formulation

First of all I believe it is vital to ask our selves what we want to achieve with this assignment. We have to formulate some overall questions we want to answer whether we are doing an exhibition, a website or something completely different. When we have determined these questions, or goals, we can then start to think about how we want to answer / achieve this and then, in case we ever get lost during the process, we can always go back and get an overview of what points we are actually trying to get through.

So... do we want to engage people to focus on maintaining the handcraft skill in today's digitalised society? Do we want to find out whether the original quality is still important to people or if a visual perception can be enough to satisfy the consumer? Do you become a better designer by knowing a handcraft? Or something way different?

I would like people to think about these overall questions and come up with at least six each for monday, which you think could be interesting work directions. Keep in mind that these questions can be very broad and able to surround the whole project. We have 5 weeks to answer them.

Design is about solving problems, but in this case we have to find the problem first!

Places to visit and document

• Stamp making
• Bookbinding (Sam, Veronica)
• Graham Letterpress (Joe, Philip)
• Chocolate making
• Bike shop (Joe, Philip)
• Tailor (Veronica)
• Carpenter
• Umbrella shop Holborn (Louis, Haubo)
• Notting Hill Farmer (Sam)
• Dinesen Floors (Philip)
• Brick Lane Furnitures (Joe, Philip)
• Artists using specific materials (ex. Chelsea workshop guys)

PLEASE ADD ANY SUGGESTIONS 

Infographics

Joe and I discussed the possibility of gathering a lot of facts about handcraft as well and showing all the statistics in interesting ways. This sounds perhaps a bit abstract now, but I'll explain tomorrow :)

Direction

I am sorry if I am too dominating in this group project, that is definitely not my intentions, but I think it is quite important here to begin with that we have someone to collect and summarise our discussions and preparations for every time we meet. This is a completely free group project with equal contribution from everyone, so let me know if anyone has anything to say on that matter. I know nobody has complained or anything, but better safe than sorry :D

See you tomorrow!

Philip