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‘Critical Histories of Design’ PGD LCC – 05.02.2014 Lecture/seminar/workshop Dr. Mark Ingham ( m.ingham@lcc.arts.ac.uk

‘Critical Histories of Design’ PGD LCC – 05.02.2014 Lecture/seminar/workshop Dr. Mark Ingham ( m.ingham@lcc.arts.ac.uk ). or. “How many ways can you skin a dead cat?”. “How many ways can an alien analyse an animated robot?”.

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‘Critical Histories of Design’ PGD LCC – 05.02.2014 Lecture/seminar/workshop Dr. Mark Ingham ( m.ingham@lcc.arts.ac.uk

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  1. ‘Critical Histories of Design’PGD LCC – 05.02.2014Lecture/seminar/workshopDr. Mark Ingham (m.ingham@lcc.arts.ac.uk)

  2. or

  3. “How many ways can you skin a dead cat?”

  4. “How many ways can an alien analyse an animated robot?”

  5. Imagine you have just landed on Earth. You have come from a distant planet… ...in a galaxy far, far away

  6. You are a very curious and highly observant species.

  7. You are always meticulously externally recording what you, see, hear, touch, taste, feel, think,Your internal memory systems are used in more imaginative ways.

  8. You only know the history of Earth from Voyager 1, a space craft sent into outer space on September 5, 1977

  9. (What is the Golden Record? “Pioneers 10 and 11, which preceded Voyager, both carried small metal plaques identifying their time and place of origin for the benefit of any other spacefarers that might find them in the distant future. With this example before them, NASA placed a more ambitious message aboard Voyager 1 and 2-a kind of time capsule, intended to communicate a story of our world to extraterrestrials. The Voyager message is carried by a phonograph record-a 12-inch gold-plated copper disk containing sounds and images selected to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth.” http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/goldenrec.html)

  10. And you land here.

  11. It feels a bit like home.

  12. You blend in!

  13. Nobody Screams

  14. Being a highly inquisitive speciesyou start some Exploratory Research(Exploratory Research is undertaken when few or no previous studies exist. The aim is to look for patterns, hypotheses or ideas that can be tested and will form the basis for further research.)

  15. Some words in a language you do not understand appear on the glowing area in front of you.

  16. Robots of Brixton

  17. Activity Free write about what you saw for 5 minutes Reflection

  18. Write down as much as you can about the film you just saw. Whatever first comes into your head. Do not censor your thoughts. Write continuously for 5 minutes without stopping. If you get stuck just write down the same word over and over and over and over again.

  19. Through some waves that you find out are called W.i.F.i. you understand on Earth…

  20. (Free Writing is the act of writing without hesitating, and without self-censoring, accepting everything as it comes. This can help writers get started and sometimes unblock writers who are stuck. The process can yield ideas too as the writer gives up control to some extent. It has precedents in automatic writing, employed by the Surrealists, but that tended to have connotations of spiritual interventions, literally ‘ghost writing’.)

  21. (You find out this is sometimes called ‘Descriptive Research’Descriptive research can be used to identify and classify the elements or characteristics of the subject.)

  22. Fiona Banner, Apocalypse Now, 1997(A Handwritten account of the film)

  23. (To reflect upon what you are doing, or have done, you need other methods to help you understand more fully the product or activity under scrutiny.)

  24. (Leading M.I.T. social scientist and consultant, Donald Schön in his book: The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action (1991) distinguishes between reflection-on-action and reflection-in-actionin the following way: paraphrased)

  25. (Reflection-in-action is concerned with practicing critically. So, a design student working with a client on a project is making decisions about the suitability of a particular design, which presentation to do next and judging the success of each response at the same time as they are conducting the activity. )

  26. (Reflection-on-action on the other hand, occurs after the activity has taken place when you are thinking about what you (and others) did, judging how successful you were and whether any changes to what you did could have resulted in different outcomes. This is usually the type of reflection which you are asked to write about as part of your studies. )

  27. You are curious.

  28. Very curious.

  29. You want to know more about the film you have just seen.

  30. You are a bit confused and cannot remember exactly what happened.

  31. Through THE WIFI you come across a way of possibly looking at this film more closely. It is calledShot by ShotAnalysishttp://filmtheory.wikispaces.com/Shot+By+Shot+Analysis+Guide

  32. You think it might help you remember the film?.

  33. You think it might help you analyse the film?.

  34. Luckily for youone of yourexternal memory devices has slowly recorded some of the images from the film.

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