Timetable for tutorials on 7th/8th with Ant below. PLEASE ensure you are there on time, and let me know if I’m running late. For those who haven’t already done so, I’d really appreciate it if you could give me a 5 minute overview of your best/favourite work so far, and how (or if) it fits into your plans for this unit.
TUESDAY 7th OCTOBER
Jim Lake 9.30
Francis 9.50
Joe 10.10
Josh 10.30
Jason Smith 11.10
Carl 11.30
Oliver 11.50
Jonathan Wheeler 12.10
Thomas 13.30
Ashley 13.50
Harry 14.10
James Chinemana 14.30
Craig 15.10
Jordan 15.30
Alex 15.50
Sam Harman 16.10
WEDNESDAY 8th OCTOBER
Sam Hodgkiss 9.30
Jonathan Joly 9.50
Matthew 10.10
Adam 10.30
Jason Kempshall 10.50
I’ve attached the Investigative Study Unit Handbook as a separate page on this blog (see above right on home page). All level 6 students should read this carefully. This unit has to be finished and handed-in by the new year (first week of new year). And I want to see your completed drafts by 17th November. Its only 4000 words, so you have plenty of time IF YOU PLAN YOUR TIME WELL. Starting on Oct 10th I will be having personal tutorials with everyone. By then you should have read the handbook, chosen a topic to investigate, and started thinking seriously about how you are going to structure your investigation. I can then help you to develop and refine your approach to this important unit. SO PLEASE EVERYONE BE PREPARED FOR THIS TUTORIAL. See you on the 10th. If you need any help deciding on a subject or an approach to this unit before then, please feel free to mail me at rcotton@aib.ac.uk.
I’ve used an illustration-portrait of Buckminster Fuller on the cover of the Investigative Study handbook, so I thought that I should tell you why. Fuller is the American architect and ‘design-scientist’ who designed the Geodesic Dome – the most efficient and economical way of enclosing maximum amount of space for minimum amount of materials in any rigid architectural form.
This is the dome he designed to house the US pavilion at Expo67 in Montreal, 1967.
Bucky Fuller was a kind of hero to my generation of art, architecture and design students – mainly because one of his main aims was that designers should do MORE with LESS – a very good approach in an era when we are rapidly using-up all the world’s natural resources. He also believed that everyone on Earth should enjoy the BARE MAXIMUM living standards. He believed that we should design ourselves better ways of dealing with all the problems that we face. We said that we are all CREW of SPACESHIP EARTH, travelling through the universe at hundreds of thousands of kilometres per hour. And that is was incumbent on us to LOOK AFTER our spaceship – its the only one we’ve got. For these and a number of other reasons (he was a great speaker, and wrote some brilliant books – and he wrote poems and was a sailor too) I really admired his work. He died in 1983, and this year at the Whitney Museum in New York, they are holding a major retrospective of his work http://www.whitney.org/www/buckminster_fuller/about.jsp
I saw this show in August, and it will do much to renew interest in a man whose life and work are extremely relevant to our current issues and problems. Check him out.
How about this for an ‘out of monitor experience’?
Interactive experiment that tries to bring the virtual into the real by Christine Sugrue
Note also that the video is posted to VIMEO - a variant on Youtube that allows for high quality HD video to be streamed over the web using a standard free service. The only thing is that you need Vodpod to post it to a WordPress blog at the moment.
This may be familiar – but an excellent example of lateral thinking and how to use something that’s already out there in an entirely new and interesting way.
This micro-blog is meant to be resource primarily for Level 6 BA Interactive Media at Arts Institute Bournemouth. We will be adding links to projects, events, news, reports etc here as and when we come across them, if we feel they are of relevance to your work.
