The Interaction and Collaboration Between Thinking And Making

The collaboration and interaction between Integrative Studio and Seminar have brought me more understanding about each individual project I have done this semester.

In one of the most recent bridge projects “1970 Trenchtown, Jamaica”, my group members and I  designed four fake products that could be well used by the locals, while creating the mock exhibition of historical objects in seminar class. For completing our mock exhibition, we utilized amount of research by not only reading different types of articles about Trenchtown such as newspaper and information from local website etc,. but also watching documentary and music video from that time period which prominently helped us better understand the circumstance and the culture of 1970s’ Jamaica, specifically, Trenchtown. By the time we started making our products in studio class, we had gotten general ideas of the demands of local people in Trenchtown based on the knowledge we gained in seminar class. We decided to take our theme as concealing- helps people cover their lives due to the chaos and violent circumstance of Trenchtown under the intensive political tensions between two different parties.

At really beginning of our studio Mocku magazine project, we were stuck from defining the theme of the whole magazine. However, our listicle assignment from seminar class intentionally  tided our ideas up from the previous confusion. Each of the group members wrote a list of  her interpretations about beauty,plastic surgery and imitation. After finished the listicle writing, we collected four listicles together and we observed the common interpretation we noted, which we decided to use as our thesis of the whole magazine. Without writing all the ideas down, we would not be able to figure out the final concept when every group member had such strong opinions. The delicate analysis and concentration extraction from seminar writing enhanced our efficiencies and smoothed our thoughts.

After reading and discussing Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex : Historical Materialism in Seminar class, our studio teacher assigned us to create a visual dialogue with our partner that could visually presents our perceptions of genders. We were kind of immersed by the topic since it’s a very abstract and sensitive subject people sometimes avoid to talk about. However, based on the goal of presenting our real thoughts from the project, we continued documenting the words we had about this topic, which was also related to seminar interview report. By the time we wrote all the notes down, we sketched the visual drafts nearby the words. After several rounds of discussions, my partner and I finally selected the ten points for our studio dialogue. Without the communication between my partner and I in seminar class, we wouldn’t reach the final destination of our studio project by just thinking but not documenting our train of thoughts.

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