By mapping the connections between your practice and research you can discover unique and inventive relationships and new directions to follow further. This exercise involves you producing a visual representation of your research interests, as explored in project 4, incorporating connections between external voices to expand your own.
Watch the following video and begin to formulate a creative response that maps and visually analyses your research interests, building on the connections between the themes you have chosen in Project 4.
How does knowledge grow? Sometimes it begins with one insight and grows into many branches; other times it grows as a complex and interconnected network. Infographics expert Manuel Lima explores the thousand-year history of mapping data — from languages to dynasties — using trees and networks of information. It’s a fascinating history of visualizations and a look into humanity’s urge to map what we know.”
Student Community: Research Discussion
Use the Creative Arts Relations Forum to share and discuss your current research interests. Share your visualising from the previous exercise and view and comment on what your peers have done, posing questions and sharing ideas and resources
RESEARCH: BRUCE MAU
Bruce Mau RCA D.Litt. (born October 25, 1959) is a Canadian designer and educator. He began his career a graphic designer and has since applied his design methodology to architecture, art, museums, film, eco-environmental design, education, and conceptual philosophy.[1][2] Mau is the chief executive officer of Massive Change Network, a Chicago-based design consultancy he co-founded with his wife, Bisi Williams.[2] In 2015, he became the Chief Design Officer at Freeman, a global provider of brand experiences.[3][4] Mau is also a professor and has taught at multiple institutions in the United States and Canada.[5][6]
From 1985 to 2010, Mau was the creative director of Bruce Mau Design (BMD). In 2003, while still at BMD, he founded the Institute Without Boundaries in collaboration with the School of Design at George Brown College, Toronto.[7] In 2010, Mau left the company and went on to co-found The Massive Change Network in Chicago with his wife, Bisi Williams.[8][9] Mau founded Bruce Mau Studio in 2020.[10]
Source:
Wikipedia contributors. “Bruce Mau.” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 25 Jun. 2023. Web. 23 Jul. 2023.
I have used the Exercise 1: Themes and Connections mind map to visualise
Manuel Lima’s case study.
Indeed, everything works as an interactive system of interchanging ideas. Depending on the focus and the mindset we can make a part of the system work harder. Because we are talking about a system though, the outcome is transferred to the whole map, stimulating every angle of it and filtering it with its unique qualities it gives back to the system a new mixture of what we can be named as inspiration.
I find quotes like the ones stated above a strong starting point for driving our thinking: they plant the seeds of various arguments.
What are we going to do with them? I believe we need the right time and place to use them accordingly.
We just need them to rest peacefully inside us.
Observing, filtering and utilising information gives the system stated above as the steam, the moving power to work in our favour.
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