On Friday, our group did on the mind mapping on what we can see, think and wonder. When we started on this project, the first thing that comes to my mind is the odor of the durian. Followed by it's shape reminds me of the Esplanade because it has the exact shape and texture of a durian. As
most people, are afraid of the smell and taste of durian as it have very strong odor and taste creamy which might stain in the mouth for a period of time which most people cannot accept it.
On my view of point, durian can be made into many products and inspirations that are useful to our daily life. The durian has many variety of uses that we can think of and reusing the nature resources helps to save the environment.
Brainstorming of pictures a day
The Bras Basah CC1 train station has an interesting design of the interior, that has the repetition of black steel columns which consist a built-in speakers and lighting in it. I think it looks likes a pipe or a log by it's color and shape. That lead me to wonder of a log that is stuck in between the two walls.
You can see repetition of columns, when going down the escalator.
The open glass ceiling with dazzling water on the glasses sheets. It enhance a feeling of swimming in a open ocean.The sunlight hits on the water surface that causes the dazzling shadow and reflections of the water, on the wall. That lead me to wonder of a complex place underwater.
On my way home, I noticed there are lots of Mimosa plants on the grass field. It has small fluffy, rounded and pinkish flower that looks like a fire works and a sea urchin. I wonder if there are thousands and hundreds of tabloid and infertile flower petals.
A group of pigeons is always at this pond side, I wonder if they are thirsty. The body of the pigeons looks like a teapot from the side view.
Explain of pigeon
Mouth- Teapot's mouth
Neck- Spout
Body- Teapot's belly
Tail- Handle
This a fan can multi-task to save files and use it as a fan. I wonder how strong can the wind goes.
I noticed a bright yellow iron container with a black words on it. That lead me to think of a bee by it's color in black and yellow contrast. Unfortunately, the door is locked, that lead me to wonder what is inside this iron container.
There are sections of overlapping containers that are use as a individual rooms for gallery. That lead me to wonder if these containers can be used as an apartment or houses from the residents to live in. That would actually save the cost of construction and reuse the resources to help to save the environment.
Steven Johnson Brainstorming-TED Talk
Summary
Steven Johnson shares how history tells a different story. His fascinating experiences from the ''liquid networks'' of London's coffee houses to Charles Darwin's long, slow hunch to today's high-velocity web. The talk summaries an idea is not a single item; its a network the most elemental level that firing in sync with each other inside our brain. It's a new configuration that never formed before. Ideas are the combination of two or more 'plain old things' that we stitch them together into a new form and create something new. If we were trying to build organizations that are more innovative, it's going to be chaotic.
In my opinion, ideas come together in chaotic environments where people from diverse backgrounds come together. Thus your work place should be just a little chaotic, with people sitting close to each other. From this part of the message, when people start to research in field, they start to get notoriously unreliable, when they actually kind of self-report on their own good ideas or their history of their best ideas.
Most of the ideas comes from people sharing mistakes and thoughts with others which likely to generate more ideas. While great ideas might seems to come in this one magical moment, they have long incubation periods. They have been there in your mind: you just realize it around that one moment you might think of as the 'Eureka' moment. Last but not least, it allow your hunches to connect with other people's hunches. The value of protecting Intellectual Property is overrated. We should spend more time sharing ideas than protecting them.
Reflections
Brainstorming help us to think broader and wider, to help us to put things well organised,
step by step in an clear process or procedure that help us to complete our task. It also benefits to reflect on the things that needs to be improved.
The images below where from a visit to NTU graduation fare
This picture shows a hanging light design which has a form of twisted lines with connection to the LED tubes. It gives an image an spectacle viewing from this point of view but also a symbolizing DNA from horizontal angle.This makes me wonder how creative the creator is. It also enhance modern,futuristic atmosphere that I think majority of the people would like this design. It lead me to think where does the wire connect to. That makes me wonder of the lights placing in this position makes the room larger.
The interesting shapes of paper crafting with built in LED lights. It has variety of shapes and forms that gives an different illuminations inside the paper lamp shade. I wonder how it looks like from inside.
This interesting twisted look table lights enhance a futuristic atmosphere which are in different colors of lights. The table lamp on the left indicate a form of a worm coming out from the underground. To me the light next to it looks like an futuristic towel. This lead me to think why its created in this unique form but not in the usual style.
This piece of furniture has it's multi-purpose usage of relocating the backrest, padded seat and you can place anything under the chair with an built-in shelves. On the color of the itself gives an soothing feel that makes you want to rest on the sofa. I think it is sufficient as you are able to position the siting you are comfortable to. I wonder what motivated the designer to come out with this design and inspiration.
The hanging lights above are made up of rattan and fabrics that has a shape of a jellyfish. I wonder what inspire the designer to have these thoughts.
From the picture above shows an image of a rug that was made up of thousands of recycled fabric rolled into a balled shape.This lead me to think of what the designer want to produce.
A work to reduce and reuse items to save earth? It looks like a string together flowers as the fabric colors are intensives. I wonder how long would it took to complete one of this projects.
Reflection
I realize that the furniture can be in different forms of shape and design. The most attractive design is the light made of paper.
Research on Designers who Break the rules
Bed & Study
The designer want to create a debate about lack of student housing. Therefore, he constructed a house-shaped structure offer just enough space for a collapsible desk and seat. The back wall can be placed down as the bed. What an good multi-functional workplace for the student and it's so convenient and simple to use that they don't have to find a place just for work.
Reflection
In my opinion I think its a very creative design for student who need an quiet and comfortable environment for them to study, that might help them to concentrate on their work.
Whatshisname???
(nickname)
This designer whatshisname created a Good Boy lamp that his aim is to encourage the public to look at surrounding world and question in derisive, jeering way. This interesting design of a dog carrying a lamp on its head and it's poop is the switch.
Reflection
In my opinion, I think if this design is for people who wants to keep a dog at home but for some unavailable reasons.
Book: Furniture Design
60 SERIES
The tables and chairs from Georgian collection XYZ Integrated Architecture's 60 series are all produced with traditional techniques and materials. They share their trait, as well : their supports are uniformly titled 60 degree. In this form of design, it alert peoples a sense of collapsing when things are placed on it. Especially the chair gives the most frightening feel when u are about to sit on it.
Reflection
This furniture has slanted legs that looks like its going to fall.
BLIO
What an interesting looking shelves that can deconstruct and rotate a regular bookcase, re-configuring it into a series of smaller units with side access and more storage for the books. I wonder if it can be used as partition walls as one part of the design.
Reflection
I didn't know that the shelves can be rotated in the manner which includes lots of storage space for the client with lots of accessories at home.
OBJECT ELEVE
(Ignore the Growth Table)
The interesting part about this design is there is a break-away from the stairs and without the railings.
It can use it as a shelves at the side which saves lots of spaces.
Reflection
In my opinion, I think that it gives me the nerve ranking feeling of falling,If I were to walk on the stairs with only thin-steel stand supporting it. Especially without the handles, walking down to the apartment, that makes it more terrifying. But on the other hand, this stairs can be used as shelves to place our things which had more storage place for us.
Julie Burstein - Breaking The Rules of Creativity
Summary Julie Burstein is a radio host that talks about creative people for a living and share about how to create in the face challenge, self-doubt and loss. She mentioned creativity grows out of everyday experience through embrace experience that are hard to do when lighted rectangle in your pockets that takes all of your focus. As in the video she shares about an Indian director named Mira Nair, things that inspired her was traveling folk theater that would come through the town and see these great battles of good and evil by the two people in a field,with no props but filled with passion and hashish that sparked to led her to set her path to become an successful creative artist. Besides that, creativity also grow from the broken places and the best way to learn is through stories, work and play and four other aspects of life that need to embrace in order to have our own creativity to flourish.
Artist also speaks about how some of their powerful work comes out of their parts of their life that are most difficult. Which comes to the part of Richard Ford story about his childhood challenge that continues to be something wrestle with today. He's severely dyslexic that he was slow to learn and read all the way through school. He can read faster as he can read out loud but he came very slowly in reconciling himself and noticed to appreciated all of those qualities of language by doing it very slowly. As he released after linger all the sentences which has helped him to write sentences. That he has to embrace the challengers to overcome his weakness. Creativity is also about pushing yourself to the limits of what they can do, into what they can,t do helps them forces to find their own voice.
The hardest embrace is to embrace of the loss, most constant of human experiences. In order to have creativity is to stand in that space between what we see in the world and hope for looking squarely of rejection, heartbreaking,war, death.That all means, tragic not because it's sad but because it;s inevitable. From the photographer Joel Meyerowitz, said that horrific,tragic,ugliness can be seen in a different way as in nature enormous event that was transformed after the fact into this residue. Last but not least, creativity can inspire you from the inherent beauty of nature, as time,is erasing this world. Time is unstoppable and it transforms an event.
Reflection
In my opinion, we can all be creative with the things that we see, feel and touch. And simple ways to make our life easier.
The egg experiment
On the 30th July 2016, our class conducted an experiment of not letting the egg break inside the cup when it is released from high distance and therefore the whole packaging must look presentable if we were to sell this product. So we form in groups of three and discuss on how we can protect the eggs from breaking.
First Examination
First we stuff some tissue in the cup then put in the eggs and stuff it on top of the egg till the brim for testing.Tissue under the egg to stable it from rolling and touching the cup directly.
The egg is still unstable after trying out. So we proceed to the second examination.
Second Examination
Our group decided to wrap the egg up with a layer of tissues after wrapping it up with another layer of tapes which made the egg looked unpresentable but strong enough to protect the egg. So we conducted the third experiment.
Final Product
For the final experiment, we decided the egg remain untouched and stuff the cup with tissue and under and on top of the egg. Then wrap the cups with duct tape around it and sealed the openings tight to secure the egg. The cup looks much better compare to the other subjects.
Experiment Time
What a relief, the egg did not break. SUCCEED!!!
Video: Egg experiment
Reflection
I have learn that teamwork is very important because we can get better ideas through discussion by listening to their ideas and comments. One person take a longer time to the solution than the group of teammates.
I went to East Coast Park for cycling along the beaches. The sky was clear blue and puffy dense clouds is about to cover up the sky. Blue sea with flickering reflective lights from the sun that makes me think if I could stay nearby to the beach with beautiful landscaping of the nature, listening to gushing sound of the waves and looking at greenish plantations.
I saw an interesting skeleton of a coral that was found on a sandy beach. Its has a unique shape of curves that makes it looks like a blossom flower. When it is placed upside down it looks like a skirt.
Another reason would be they need fishers to distinct the corals that make them so attractive. I think if its hard to find such an unique shapes as maybe it only can be found in the deep ocean in some various country. Its versatile look gives a sense of playfulness. I think the curvy ends of the coral look beautifully waved.
From the picture above grasses growing on the rocks formations, like gashing waters that is sweeping away the entire place. The rounder rock looks likes an explosion of the nuclear bomb or a mushroom's pileus(cap). It also gives an image of a head of a human standing in a crowd. Every rocks has its own unique shape this leads me to wonder its originality. I wonder how the color comes about of the rocks come about.
These form of rocks looks like it has been dumped out, and looks like a person laying on the massive rocks but some of the rocks looks like a person's head stitching out among the crowds.
"Welcome to Tampines Eco-Green Park. " A perfect place to relax and bird sight seeing. The place are rather silence that you could hear bird twitching and cricket chirping. Beautiful greenish plats along the side of the path that gives me a thought of walking through the endless forest. That for fill my adventure spirit.
When I walk further in I saw a fence that is coiled with thickly dotted coil plants that lead me to wonder why the coil plants are all growing to the stand and not on the trees or bushes nearby.
Walking along, I saw this little green shimmered beetles looks like a mini cooper and a mouse or a shinny green diamond. It was resting on a wooden plank that lead me to think if its enjoying itself under the cloudy afternoon. From its color , I think it is to camouflage itself in bushes or maybe to attract its mates. This is the first time that I saw a green beetle and I was fascinated by the beautiful glossy shimmered colors insects that can only be found at certain parts of the place. Reflection I notice in nature, there are lots of things going on that we have not found and the beauty of the creation of god.
Tim Brown: Tales of creativity
Summary
Tim Brown expressed the powerful relationship between creative and play. In the video, I have learnt that we get less creative as we grow older. Children do not fear to be judge to be judges to creativity as compared to adults. Most importantly is that we that we are embarrassed and conscious about the things we do. As designers,I feel that we should explore more into our creativity. Adults use to categories things when problems comes but children have the curiosity wanting to know or explore on the things of what they can do with it.
On the other hand, playfulness plays an important part of the roles which we use in pragmatic way and helps us get better creative solutions.Creativity is also breaking the rules and norms that shock people out of their minds.Hence it developed a wide rang things and ideas solutions. Prototype are basically working with hands to produce creativity for example a nurse shows a very simple things made up of plasticine in a way to expressed that thing could be invented in future preferences.
Last but not least, to enhance these playful and creatively we need to build-out a model or drawing to develop a better ideas and creativity.
Reflection
In my opinion, I noticed when an adult gets older, they become more enclosed and are afraid of people judgement, of where ideas comes from, and the things around us that gives us the inspiration.
