Snakes and Ladders / Art and Fear

In class we looked at the SI project possibilities, what could go wrong and what could go right.

We worked in groups on making a photo-related version of snakes and ladders, a game I never heard of before. Snakes being the problems that one can come across and ladders opportunities.

Coming up with potential problems with a project, especially without having an idea of what to photograph doesn't seem like the best idea to me to be honest and for me seems counterproductive. I'm always aware that there are things that can go wrong or right with a project. I didn't really understand this exercise.

We also listened to a fragments form a audio book by David Bayles and Ted Orland called "Art & Fear". It sounded like an interesting peace of writing and I will look it up as a book but not as a audiobook.

After class I've looked up different ways of learning which proved that I'm defiantly a visual learner and I need to see the text to learn / remember.

The class ended in a brainstorming exercise / brain mapping. Starting from a random word we created a map of different ideas for projects that closer or looser relate to the original world / project.

This was actually pretty helpful and I've used it for the next mini project for college on consumerism.

It makes  you think "outside the box" and connect sometimes not-connectable ideas. I can see how this could help to push an idea one is stuck on and get through the "I don't know what else to do with this project" phase. It can also be a great tool to quickly and without much effort generate ideas for new projects.

Other observations and notes:

It is really difficult to make people understand that there is more than one way of doing things, more than one  ways of learning, working and that not everything works for everyone.