FYP Meeting 1.
re-look, re-think, re-fresh.

13th April 2009
Meeting Objectives: Constructive Criticism
First meeting with Lydia!

BIG IDEAS!

So today, we met our supervisor, Lydia. We went about talking about our ideas one by one. And once everyone finished, Lydia took over.

"1 plate of fried rice shared by 5 people, everyone gets just a little bit out of it. Wouldn't a person get more out of it if they get a plate each?" - Lydia

5 BIG ideas in one room, too much to take in and people don't know what to focus on. Well that was what Lydia saw it as. And she did told us maybe we'd like to focus on one and make it look damn good as she felt that it feels a bit too messy and all over the place.

Actually, after the meeting we felt that we forgot to tell her one thing. That the limelight would go to Robin's statue light lamp thingy. The focus would be that, smack right in the center of the exhibition. The other ideas were things to decorate around the exhibition, so much focus would actually go to the statue.

Initial ideas are always planned to go bad, but don't throw them away work from there.

Re: Purpose Design

We were all asked to re-look into our ideas and ask ourselves, what is the purpose? Is it only for decorative purposes?

We were reminded of the description of the project,

RE:Purpose Design can be seen as a creative attempt to recycle and re-purpose existing, used
commodities and products into functional and aesthetic lifestyle products or furnishings.

INSPIRATION!

Get inspired. We need inspiration. We shall all have our own, excursion and blog it out here soon. IKEA is a great place to get inspired. But yes do document anything interesting you see outside and blog it here! Like Lydia has told us, research research research!! Research is important in this project as we need to know our stuff well, what materials we are working with, so we know how to exploit those materials.

Check out the website Lydia suggested: http://www.readymade.com/

We are DDI students!

Design for Interactivity. How do we make our product something for people to interact with? How do we make it something that can represent our Diploma and long term better enhance our portfolio? Where is the interaction in our ideas?

Seize media opportunities!

Lydia did say how maybe we would like to look at doing something for the public so that our work can be recognized and it will be known for a good cost. Guess we might want to look at this in the later part? Just keep it in mind.

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Okay guys (and girls), we are on the right track so to speak. As discussed earlier we need to get inspired, and Project Lumiere is still going to happen (well for now it is), the statue production should start as soon as possible! We need to re-think whats the purpose of our statue, is it only for lighting? How do we make it to have more pupose? I think that the statue it self is already made up of alot of unexpected materials, like plastic bags, hanger wiring, cardboard boxes etc. we just have to think a little deeper and get inspired and re-think carefully.

Roles of the team:
Project Leader: In charge of overseeing everything, and keeping the team on track. (ziqq)
Logistics : In-charge of getting contacts and will be the one contacting people (robin)
Management: In-charge of time-keeping, project schedule (shahida)
Researcher: In charge of backing us up with sufficient knowledge (zila)
Resources: In-charge of getting materials (v)