alday_capstone_process

Conditional Design Workshop

I am loving your college prompt deck! Been making collages, but using it is also helping me to think about paintings and other things that I have made that need ONE MORE step to feel finished. Thank you for including me! Collage has always been a gateway to new ideas and a way into my subconscious. Your deck makes the process more direct and accessible. THANK YOU! :) What are your initial thoughts about the deck?   Clear, simple, effective and powerful.   Using the deck helps to eliminate the disruption of flow that happens when trying to decide on the next step to take.  It feels good to be guided while making !   Were the instructions helpful?   Yes! Consider modifying 'Most of them will be bad.' to something like 'Most of the collages will be bad.' Or 'attempts' or 'creations' or some other language that clarifies what will be bad. Would it be more or less appealing to remove the 'you' in these rules: ' You can combine as many cards as you...

All users qualify as potential users Given Physical Cards Frannie K. – College Administrator Dana L. – Educator/Printmaking Forrest W. – Artist/Photographer Carly P. - Student , Face to Face Sophie B. – Art Historian,  Email Kris M. - Artist/Educator Madeline G. - Artist Given PDF to Print Out Cards Cynde B. – Educator/Painting, Email Erik B. – Educator/Design, Email Group Focus Testing of Physical Cards JC - Student AH - Student MB - Student AF - Student Questions Asked:   Thank you for testing our prototype. Would you answer the following questions to help improve the experience.   What are your initial thoughts about the deck?   Were the instructions helpful?   Did you make any collages?   If not, what stopped you?   If you did, were the prompts clear?   Is there anything you would add, take out or change? Could you see yourself using the deck in your own practice? What would you add?   What do you think should be taken out?...

  George Maciunas,  Fluxus Manifesto , 1963

Attempting to read a few things.  

Possible Titles Prompt Collage Deck Collage Roulette Collage-a-rama Card-o-log Collage Cards Make Deck Methods Hurly-Burly Collage Ideation Cards Make More / Think Less Practice Praxis Momentary Bliss Roulette! Paper Embark Begin to Start Inspecta Deck Creative Directives Collage Obstructions Get Busy Making Beautiful Maladies Indefatigable Sisyphus Absurd Praxis Cut/Tear/Paste Production Practice Harmless Risks Agitate Practice & Process Imagemaking Imagemaker Tangents Moments Mistake Maker Make Mistakes Not Art What's Good

Been making collages to help think about overall design aesthetics. And maybe one of these collages could make it way into packaging prototypes. Either way, it feels good to keep ones hands busy.