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Calendar page of Methods (10.4. 2019)

Text On Method Guidelines

WHAT IS A METHOD? method as a habit, how you do things, how you approach way of working methodology is an analysis of that about how I am working and what am I working on

what methods did you use and how did they work for you? what kind of researcher are you, what suits you how did you do it? your methods + content material practice of research decisions (a la mistakes) (which result in) change in direction recognition of a core research strand (recognition of what is important to your research) affordance (more than just the function) how the new skills you acquire tie in other skills and what such skills afford

First draft

Where does it come from? (past)

What is it now? (present)

1. Trace

  • what: photobook, blank pages, tactile,
  • how: finding, chance principle, marginal fragments in public space
  • why: to relate photography to my previous practice, to open up my ways of thinking, working, looking

READING&WRITING

  • what was the input (my readings)
  • how was it processed (my methods)
  • what are the products (my writings)
  • how does it feed the work

2. Drawing Camera

  • what: a) camera b) photographs produced by it
  • how: creating a wooden camera (customising the template), experimentation with materials (plastic foil, drawing tools)
  • why: to break down the complexity of the camera, to make a tool that is not commercially produced and is in this sense unique, to merge 2 principles of working(photographic and drawing methods)

3. TVACUUM

  • what: 2D animation
  • how:
  • why: to learn about digital tools for animation

READING&WRITING

  • what was the input (my readings)
  • how was it processed (my methods)
  • what are the products (my writings)
  • how does it feed the work

Where is it going? (future)

MAKING

READING&WRITING

It is not alone. (context)