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Week 1.1

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Lecture Independent Study What do I struggle with as a student designer? .> Moivation > Creativity  > Comapring/Competiting > Productions > Lack of Drive > Thinking outside the box  Makes me feel: > Stressed  > Weak > Not good enough > All ways tired  > shit.  Theme One  How do I gain motivation > Meditation > Podcasts > T.E.D talks A conference would be motivation based, finding your drive , thinking outside the box. Drive - to have desire/ sexy. Sex Drive   Helping oters find their sex drive to design more. - Not actually about 'sex' but used as a metaphor. "Sex Drive your Design" > Mental Health based > Motivation based > How to find "sexiness" in your failures and success.  > Having a desire to become more inspired and motivated  > Add sexy to your daily routine  > 'Sex sells' - metaphor  Theme Two  Designing for the Blind > Texture, sound heat, smell > 'Barr...

Week 1.2

 Karl Kane Lecture Looking at things Design now (a provocation) modernism - objectivism  - universal type face  - fix the world and make everyone equal  b- consumerism use/exchaneg value  - What is autebtic? - It is authentic, I can prove it postmodern - reletivism  - a rejection of modernism  - who are you to say whats wrong and right, whatever works for you.  - sign value - symbolic representation  - Your authenticity is as good as mine third space/altermodern - critical realism? - consumerism - experience/transformation - On balance, what is more authentic to me and others? Theory of cultural formation: R. Williams  Dominant culture: consumer capitalism  archaic > residual > domiant  archaic - traditional rituals capitalsim -  ill absord your technique, do it up and sell it back to you.  What can we observe (re) emerging in this third space? Emphasis on tangiable experiences  Immersion: sense, think, tou...