Where are you in your overall research plan / process?

I am in a good place, I have conducted all my research and started sketching my two ideas for the two drawings.

Are there changes you’ve made to that plan along the way? What are they?
I left the final image to be set to what the people in my interviews say so my vision of the final drawings have changed throughout each conversation. Also my question I asked changed because it seemed like a conversation was more information-rich than blunt questions.

How are you documenting your process (notes, photos, reflection in a sketchbook, your LP, or other spot)?

Notes and sketches in my sketchbook.

What three things (or more) do you need to be able to get done / continue between now and next week to present a near-final version of your work?

1. finalize my data for my extreme positive future of self driving cars (SDC) 2) finalize my data for my extreme positive future of SDC and 3) figure out the color scheme I will use for the photoshop version of these drawings and 4) start a basic outline of my drawings on photoshop

How will you get those things done / continue them?

Keep sketching, analyzing, brainstorming and expanding. Then transfer it to my computer.

What is your goal for what you want to show next week? (What will you make? What will you bring in? How will you present it?)

I will present my online drawings printed out, hard copy of one or both. My goal is to have drawings that really speak for themselves, that show the utopia and dystopia futures of SDC. I want to create a fun and playful image symbolizing the extreme outcomes of a life with SDC based on people or New York’s knowledge of them and ideas.

What do you think might be a question or questions you’ll be wanting to discuss about your work / project?

It the image portraying my message? Is is self explanatory? What could I change or add to communicate the piece better with the audience? Does is raise good questions when looked upon? Does it intrigue the audience? Did the audience learn something?

What help might you need, from peers, from me, from others?

How can I incorporate the questions asked in the previous question in my two drawings?

If you had to describe the relationship of “research” as a process of investigation, asking questions, finding information, and / or building arguments to your studio project now, how would you do so? Where do you see the research in your studio work?

My research was mainly done by interviews people of New York of all ages, to get a detailed image of the unique perspectives and answers received from the interviews. I did some research online to get perspectives done buy the big companies of why they would want to work on SDC. How it’s portrayed in my final piece would be all the characteristics included in the image. Each detail in the pictures would’ve been based on someone’s comment or vision of these two worlds.

This is a project that required us to make a 3D model that did an action a hand does. I chose a hand that mimics the motion of a high five. Made out of wood and felt, to soften high five. A reel is used to bring the hand back and the springs in the front create the energy to spring it back up. The reel also is used as a drag to soften the motion of the spring back.

Presentation Board:

Detail shots of the hand model:

Inspiration/trademark personalization

Videos of the high five motion:

Plan #1:

Should self-driving cars be sold on the market (if successfully created)?

For this plan my end goal would be to create a venn diagram of the companies working on self-driving cars and the pros, cons and goals they each have and/or share. My steps toward making this chart accurate and detailed enough would be to do a lot of online research, and many sketches of how large, small, integrated and intertwined the diagrams will be. The online research will include background research and project outcomes for the following companies: Google, MIT, Uber, and Tesla (and maybe more once I get further into my research). To accurately note down and keep track of all my data I will list the benefits, dangers, arguments, developments, plans, money, goals and growth of the projects in each category (categories being the companies). Once I have my list for each category I will cut up and re assemble the items into groups of common interest among the companies or specific categories. Then I will sketch up ideas of how I would like the end result to look like, color use etc. and what materials I would use, maybe bristol board paper. For the research to be thorough I want to give myself enough time, but not rush on the presentation, I want the research (lists) done by 27th of April, have a final sketch of my final project look by May 4th, and fully completed by May 11th.

Plan #2 – Chosen Idea:

Should self-driving cars be sold on the market (if successfully created)?

For my second plan my end result would be a visual drawing of a utopia and a dystopia of the possibility of self-driving cars being accessible to humans, based on online research and human interviews of the pros, cons and thoughts on the subject. To get all my information, I will conduct a thorough investigation on online websites about the various perspectives on the matter, including companies working on SDC models. I will also interview humans of New York by asking them various questions like: would you want a self-driving car? If yes, why so? If not why so? Would it give you more time to do your own things or limit your freedom? I am surrounded by many humans everyday, to get my interviews I will ask variety of people I walk pass: students, teachers, employees etc. to get a variety of answers. Once I will get all my information and different view points, I will separate the comments into common groups (for it or against it) and from there I will sketch out the emotions, reasoning behind the emotions, attributes to a life with SDC etc. on paper. Once I finalize on two (a utopia and a dystopia) sketches for my final, I will re-create that sketch in photoshop and create a high resolution drawing of all the research to capture the feelings people have about this possible future product. For this plan I think drawing would take a bit longer than the research, as I can ask many people in a few days (easily accessible to all range of people), the research would be completed by 20th or 23rd of April, sketch of final to be done by 27th or 30th of May, and the final to be completed by the 11th of May.

Questions for Shana:

Will this fill the criteria for different sources for research?

Do I need to find a librarian? (I am not too clear about this area)

Does the thesis question fit with the project I will create? And/or is it a sufficient idea/correct question?

Or should my question be more specific like: what would the two extreme futures look like for slef driving cars?

Google: https://waymo.com/

MIT: http://moralmachine.mit.edu/

Uber: http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/04/03/522099560/pittsburgh-offers-driving-lessons-for-ubers-autonomous-cars

Steve jobs – history of his work important –apple – ideation

Alexa – mini limited AI machine

Elon Musk – work, perspective – tesla