Week 10 - Origination

Class Format

Todays class was concerned with the ninth chapter 'Failure' from Maeda's 'The Laws of Simplicity'.

Group Exercise

Reading Quiz

Answer the following questions as succinctly as possible in your own words;

1. Using this years exhibition as an example, describe an aspect of your work or something you have worked on, where you have found a symbiotic relationship that is both complexity and simplicity.
   - I really see this type of relationship occurring throughout my creative process, but if I had to pick one aspect I would say the collaborative process has embodied this notion the most obviously.
2. Provide a conceptual example of a situation that has arisen during this project where you have had a return on failure?
   - A return on failure occured when the relatively simple first pattern design was simply not working. The alternative required the addition of pleats effectively making the design more complex.
3. Homework: Provide a short explanation and example of how FAILURE can be turned around using the law LEARN. Describe how this relates to the TIME law.
   - A failure always leads to an investigation of how it happened. This investigation invariably leads to an increase in knowledge, a key aspect of the law 'Learn'. This process has a knock on effect with the 'Time' law. A well planned creative process will include an allowance for contingencies. 

 

Research

Video

Insert video and comment

Images

The final product of the helmet cover project.

 

Reflection

Failure is an opportunity to find a better way, which is my optimism talking. This is Maeda's mode of thought when he talks about finding a return on failure.