Once I got over Luke’s handmade Christmas cards comment it was good to think through how to interpret people’s engagement and interpretations of the Negotiating Lights On / Off paper.
To start with I just had informal feedback from people that included comments like: how their reading “was all in the titles”, “I preferred it when [...]
So I’ve finally finished the piece for The National Grid and the very final stage, of writing the footnotes and titling the images was very interesting. I was focusing on the question raised earlier, where I was thinking about how to direct potential interpretations without over-prescribing the readings. And the editors had also requested that [...]
I was at Columbia a few weeks back for the Paratheses symposium on co-operative research and although I was pretty bored by most of the conversation I really liked the opportunity to hear Mark Wigley speak…even if only as a moderator. He used the simple, but accurate phrase “design thinking” to capture designer’s ability to [...]
The crit Luke gave the homemade Christmas cards was good…because he also jumped in to interpret how he read them. So in the spirt of learning from my mistakes I also found that working with more abstract images (as opposed to the more metaphoric vector images) that the interpretations could be more random. Luke had [...]