Lecture Summary

Experiential Learning - beyond linear teaching.

Learning about who we are as designers, our practise itself and how best to approach and solve certain problems.  Within these lectures we've developed skills to help inform and develop are own personal practise which we will develop further across level 5 and 6.

We are here to:
- communication
- problem solve
- communicate through a common language that we develop- understand why we do what we do
- effectively communicate ideas, concepts and contexts.

Visual Communication:
- processes of sending and receiving
- level of shared understanding
- affected by audience content media and methods of distribution.

Visual literacy:
- the ability to interpret and negotiate meaning
- based on idea that a picture can be read
- all that is necessary for any language to exist is the agreement that one thing will stand for another.
- all based on symbols whose meaning results from their existence in particular context however some are also universal.
- constantly dealing with visual metaphors and how to construct meaning from these metaphors.

Chronologies:
- based on histories and importance of understanding history in order to move forward.
- challenge is how you develop and recognise other cultures and history and how to work within them.

Creative practise isn't a series of straight lines as you need to investigate and create the answers instead of looking around to what already exists.

Research is the process of finding facts.
These facts will lead to knowledge.
Research is done by using what is already known

COP 2:
Review information in order to progress in level 5.
- exploring discipline specific content
- developing individual areas of interest
- formulating research questions
- developing practical and contextual research skills
- writing research project proposals
- research informed practice and academic writing.