Post presentation

Overall I feel confident after my presentation. I know I have a long road ahead of me in terms of work, but I'm comfortable with the direction I'm going in. I think at least after all of this I'll have a piece of research that will be nice reference material for my future work in design- whether its in exhibition design or not. Putting everything together is going to be tedious and I need to begin coming up with a grid for my book but at least I have my list of topics and a general table of contents to work off of and maybe that way it will help give me more structure in terms of showing me what needs to be done and which direction I'm heading in. 

I agree with Axel about the redesign aspect of my project. I was beginning to question whether it would be an appropriate part of the book, and I wasn't sure if it would be even possible to do considering my timeline and the availability of information. Maybe if I have time I could do what Dana had suggested and pick specific aspects of local exhibits that I have ideas for- we shall see! 

As for the visual look and feel of my book I've started to try and brainstorm how I want it organized. Since my content is so fixed on the senses should I have pages that are more tactile or should I keep it fairly solid in terms of grid because I'm covering a lot of information to keep it as clean as possible? Should it be super visual? I don't exactly have access to a printer that I could use my own paper on. It's something I'm gonna have keep thinking about...but I've got to hurry up.

A good book can do wonders...

I have finally found a book that is helpful! It took long enough. The book is titled Sensation and Perception, and its one of the textbooks used in the UW's psychology department. So for the last couple of days I've been working on rounding out my definition list, and diving a bit deeper into the areas that I find a bit more pertinent. My goal is to have my list done by this week so that I can start on the writing and organizing of my actual book. I'm a bit worried about it all coming together in a coherent manner though. I think I need to start working on my book arrangement so that the flow from one example to the next makes sense and it isn't confusing for the reader. 

I'm also beginning to look into possible design examples to work with in terms of my redesign project. It'll have to come from a book Im thinking because so far I haven't found an exhibit with extensive enough information on the web in order to make it possible for me to fully tackle the project. It may come down to me doing parts of the exhibit instead of the whole thing based on the availability of information. In terms of time that might be the best option but when considering how much it'll make sense for the book, I'm a bit skeptical. 

Whats the game plan?

Ok so, there's a lot to do this quarter and not very much time to do it in. I have been working on compiling my images and information for the installations as well as continuing my research on sensory perception. I found a book through summit that I ordered and it's ready for pick-up, which I'll be doing tomorrow. It looked really promising in terms of specific information on each individual sense. I've been struggling in terms of finding reliable resources that are easily read. Most of the technical information I've found has been WAY too thick, making it difficult to extract pertinent information. I'm going to try and email Axel's wife as well and see if she might have any tips in terms of textual resources. I know her specific field is lighting but its definitely worth looking into. 

I feel like right now though, its developing my own timeline that has begun to worry me. At some point I need to decide when to stop collecting and when to begin detailing and narrowing my list down to the examples I want to discuss in my final book. I hope to be at that point within a week or two. I've started to search for existing exhibits that may be nice candidates for me to apply my research to. I'd like to have that solidified sooner rather than later. And then comes the design of the book- establishing a grid to work off of. I would say at this point I'm mostly just overwhelmed. I need to start outlining a way to break all this up in order for me not to keep stressing about it all getting done. I suppose that's a good goal for this week. 

DScapstone

testing. testing....