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Officially the first day of my third and final year! I am extremely exhausted after such a long day, but am still very excited! Today was very successful and interesting. I expected it to be fairly daunting. The aim today was to categorise around 5000 post its. Our task last week was to create 100 ideas each on post its. Addressing areas that we are interested in, such as material, social situations etc..

After categorising, we were then appointed a category. I was paired up with Max, we were to create 3 briefs from the subject 'chance'. A curious category, which i quickly realised didn't have much content, it seemed to become a miscellaneous area. After much thought we found three types of chance; control, inevitability/probability and out of control. For control we created a brief about misbehaving in disguise from a controlled society which we believe is almost like 1984. For inevitability, we decided on design for inevitability, designing in preparation for a possible crisis. And for out of control, we made a brief that asks to design a process of randomness which creates unique objects. Finally, the whole class voted two out of three briefs that we liked for each category. So we were left with Inevitable airbag (Design for the inevitable) and Take a chance (creating a means of randomness). We would have preferred to keep the control brief as it could have been quite profound. However there are enough briefs to deal with. These were our conclusions:

Chance Max Smith & Stephanie Rodger

Inevitable Airbag

Design an object for the inevitable; This is a means to prepare for the chance that a crisis could occur. You can draw from a tongue-in-cheek or very serious issue; such as the inevitable result of global warming. You can prepare for something that cannot be avoided and is just going to happen.

The following is an example of the preparation for global warming;

Product designers; &Mades designed Either Oar (an example their climatised objects). A dining table that can simply form into a boat with oars quickly and efficiently. “Our ideal was to offer functional solutions in these increasing times of crises”.

Take a chance

Create a means or process of randomness to create unique objects, images or installations, using unbiased means decision-making.

“Randomness is a lack of order, purpose, cause, or predictability” Wikipedia.

So an assortment of information coming together and creating something quite different and self gratifying.

Stephen Johnson creates pieces that randomly fall together and have a unique outcome, with a successful aesthiticness. 100% design explain that “by designing items of no physical use-value, Johnson explores less obvious facets of design.

From tomorrow we will choose two projects to do individually for 8 days! ARGHH.....yipee!