Research → Ideate → Prototype → Test → Iterate

“Bourriaud’s (2002) concept of relational aesthetics that conceptualizes art practice away from the “self-referentiality of modernist art,” turning instead to the way art-making builds relationships with others and with the world. Bourriaud believes that collaborative art and media making provide a space to explore these relations and our identity as it evolves through them. Here, relations, not media objects, are primary. A collective aesthetic means “our values are embedded in our physical and affective relationship with the world” (Leuthold, 1998, p. 16).” - on arts-based research with indigenous communities -
“if you want to be prolific and not stuck in your head, don’t try to create things from scratch. There’s stuff happening in your head right now. Draw/write from that.” - lost source
“How can I create delight in my writing? In drawing, we use Size and scale, Dark and light, Close and far, Sharp and blurred… If a subject blends in too much with its surroundings, make it stand out through vocabulary, line breaks, bold/italics, kill some words to make snappy sentences… draw out a moment to change the pace. Create tension. Use the full range of the medium, and learn by observing how others do it too.” - lost source

low-fidelity: eg sketches, wireframes, storyboards medium-fidelity: eg digital mockups, clickable interaction high-fidelity: functional MVP

research by making

practise-based
tangible from the outset
brings depth to practise and gives theory practical purpose
tapping into other knowledges
starting with a making strategy - sketching, problem space, or technical exercise
making as a skill with technical fluency, or making to explore, or making to understand
making through dialogue with others, co-experience
unmaking through hacking, repairing, questioning consumption
material research, affordances of a particular material and its possibilities
iteration turns search into re-search - reflecting and refining methods, build depth over time
making for the sake of making
its through reflection, documentation and articulation that your making becomes research
starting with questions

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