Wednesday 17 February 2010

Making things clear and concrete.

During the last period I was feeling somehow a little confused. The reason was that during these months many things (theories, approaches, concepts) poped-up and I did not know how to connect them all together. In the first stage I have used extensively the pedomorphosis in it's biological and anthropological form. In a second level I have brought the emotional design discussion. And last (something i constantly avoided up to that moment, because of their extension and depth) the semiotics. Still the latest field I will simply applied partly and only as possible future investigations.
Yesterday I had a meeting with a beloved friend of me, who is studying linguistics. She managed through our argumentation to make me see what is what and where possible all come together (at least for the submission of my master). I am really grateful for that meeting. The last part now is only to put it down as concrete as I can and just give a great step for argumentation on childlike products.

*cross fingers*

Ps: i know that through this blog probably things look like a mess. The reason is that I have use this blog as kind of report on what I am doing. My schools regulations and the way the sensors judge the diplomas, most of the times demands a presentation of our process. There is also another problem that has appear the last semester, when actually AHO had to face the candidates blogging and the existence regulation of confidentiality of the diplomas up to the evaluation (something on which I do not want to take public position but I will try to follow it as much as I can). So for anyone who is really following the whole project and has problem to understand things or thinks that I lack coherent and I just throw ideas, please contact me. As for the findings I will try to give a glimpse of where the whole project has go in the near future.

Thursday 11 February 2010

Analysis' tool + communication tool

From the very begin of my diploma I had a constant fight with myself for the method I will follow to analyze the phenomenon. Would had been some study cases or i would just spread it out to as many possible examples I could find during the diploma time? The fight became kind of conflict when people i was talking with where really supported the idea of study cases. Something inside me though was telling me that the right way was the representation of the phenomenon through as many possible examples. The result of it at the end was a collection of 218 objects, carefully selected from a bigger collection, that have been analyzed to their both morphological and emotional-behavioral elements. The cards also will serve as a communicative tool with the sensors and audience. They are designed with the great help of my sub-supervisor Anne Melbye. You can get a glimpse here, the whole collection will be presented in the final presentation around June.