The review was constructive, both for the ideas that were revealed to me from making the work below and the comments that came from the critics. But as you can see from reading my presentation script I spent as much time describing the experience of working on the visual accounts - endlessly referring to the [...]
For this Ph.D review the third and final area I explored was referencing the visual language of information design to explain our studio experience. These Explanatory accounts revisited some earlier diagrams I had prepared for the EAD conference paper.
You only need to look at these diagrams to realise that I drew them in 30 minutes [...]
In contrast to the largely compositional role of designing in Representational Accounts, I considered next what would happen if I sought to communicate through the signified language of visual rhetoric.
The idea of using rhetoric seemed potentially the most interesting, controversial and difficult to realise of the three areas. If visual accounts of research are [...]
For my recent Ph.D review I finally got to do some design work…evaluating whether developing visual accounts of previous Studio Anybody research projects might enhance my personal learning from the projects. First up I addressed simply using visual accounts to frame research topics and/or highlight key findings. These predominantly representational images largely worked with the [...]