Project Date: Spring 2013 & 2014
Project Directive
Select a theme that will guide your studio projects and your seminar research for the duration of the semester. You will later hone your own research question related to the theme for your final project and paper.
1. Select from the Theme Menu:
- Gender (Femininity, Masculinity, Androgyny)
- Formal Issues (Geometric, Architectural, Organic, Body Anatomy, Fabric)
- Ritual (Scared/ Religion/ Mythology/ Performance/ Costume)
- Utility (Managing Bodies/ Garment Use/ System/ Everyday/ Utopia/ Protection/ Armor)
- Cultural Traditions (Appropriation/ Linage/ Community)
- Sustainability (Production Method/ New Technology/ Environment/ Nature/ Urban System/ Globalization)
- Identity (Personal Style/ Values/ Group Identity/ Sense of Self)
- Physical Body (Form, Sexuality, Epidermal Self-Awareness, Feminist Issues of Body Ideals, Medicalization of Body, Fetishism)
- Social Embodiment (Social Conduct, Antipathy Toward Fashion, Pop Culture/ Media/ Social Media)
2. Create a map/ photo based graphic to serve as a visual taxonomy of your visual research.
- Visit exhibitions and do internet searches to collect an image pool.
- Narrow your image pool and CATEGORIZE. Sort the information by sub-theme. Make folders with sub-themes and sort your images.
- Make a map of this research. Create a BRANCHING, WEB, or LINEAR format.
- Add both the images and text descriptors.
- Create a method to display the images and select color and type so that the graphic is both visually appealing and instructive.
- Your final piece may look like a map or an infographic. Although we are using photos, not vector graphics, the following website may help you organize your data: Infographics & Data Visualization
The suggested format is a Prezi. Link to an example here.
However you may also work in illustrator/ photoshop/ or indesign (30 x 36 in). See examples below.
