Week 1

Monday 7th September
Session 1

Today we started off with the big design cohort gathering together to share coffee, tea, muffins, and an exhibition of our work from the previous studio assignment as a celebration of our up-coming topic of Koha. As VCD students we then moved into The Pit for a lecture to give us initial information about our new 6 week project.
After this introduction we moved back to our studio spaces from the previous 6 weeks and met with our new lecturers. Our stream has Matt and Klaus as our lecturers. We then spent what class time was left doing the Simpson's exercise (this can be seen in our online workbook) and arranged our pairings for the project.

Homework:
Complete part 2 of the Simpson's exercise.
Decide on your topic (Neighbourhood Party or Beach Clean Up)

--- Hannah and I spent some time after class working through the homework and discussing some initial ideas around this project. We were both in agreement that we were slightly leaning towards the Neighbourhood Party idea and so have decided to choose this).

Tuesday 8th September
Session 2

We kicked class off today by going back through yesterday's exercise and the homework. The discussion around using the visual rhetoric we learned and target audiences was really helpful in terms of hitting the ground running with this project. We then spent some class time looking over the brief, project plan, and collaborative toolkit documents from stream. We worked through the project plan document and created a To-Do List for ourselves for the coming week. As a class we were also ideating on the whiteboard around the 2 themes to get the creative juices flowing.

Homework:
Mood boards
Rhetorical Thumbnails

--- Hannah and I have created a To-Do List and will separately complete tasks and then collaborate/combine our ideas at our next meeting which is planned for Monday morning before studio class.