the first brief was to come up with the big idea, we have to do a presentation at 2:30pm today including 4 powerpoint slides only and talking for 5 minutes. There were various criteria to meet including things like a slogan, conceptual diagram, visuals and sketches, sections etc.
In our group we have Russell garden designer 3rd year, me landscape arch 3 year, Simon MA landscape arch and Elisa and Vero who are both landscape arch students from Lille. Elise could speak quite good english, but overall the language barrier made things more interesting! Drawing was a good way of explaining things. They did say they struggled to understand anything our lecturers were saying though!
Simon took charge and we got down quickly to coming up with a concept. I had suggested we related the textile history to the layers we would use on site, however, concept meant different things to the french who seem to think more literally, so they could not understand why we would relate to something that was no longer there, but we eventually seemed to understand each other! I then feel we spent too long on this part and possibly should have moved onto ideas at this stage. Jamie came round and suggested we now come up with our vision in the next couple of hours.
Aside from one disagreement by Elisa (who thought it was insane to either remove a road or to put it in a tunnel as she saw it as part of the landscape we should incorporate as people need roads), we got on fine - our only issue seemed to be that we were not really moving forward. I often find in these situations that designers struggle to do things quickly! By the time 9pm came round we had only just begun to come up with ideas and it was suggested we all go home and do some drawing. Not much sleep again...people in the room were looking exhausted by then.
and so I had better get on with day 3! With our group meeting at 8:30 and I am hoping today we will be more decisive - from my background of finance, where I am used to having to set strict schedules for clients, I am not used to just doing lots of thinking but not getting stuff down, so am hoping we do that quickly this morning so we have something for 230pm...wish us luck...
In our group we have Russell garden designer 3rd year, me landscape arch 3 year, Simon MA landscape arch and Elisa and Vero who are both landscape arch students from Lille. Elise could speak quite good english, but overall the language barrier made things more interesting! Drawing was a good way of explaining things. They did say they struggled to understand anything our lecturers were saying though!
Simon took charge and we got down quickly to coming up with a concept. I had suggested we related the textile history to the layers we would use on site, however, concept meant different things to the french who seem to think more literally, so they could not understand why we would relate to something that was no longer there, but we eventually seemed to understand each other! I then feel we spent too long on this part and possibly should have moved onto ideas at this stage. Jamie came round and suggested we now come up with our vision in the next couple of hours.
Aside from one disagreement by Elisa (who thought it was insane to either remove a road or to put it in a tunnel as she saw it as part of the landscape we should incorporate as people need roads), we got on fine - our only issue seemed to be that we were not really moving forward. I often find in these situations that designers struggle to do things quickly! By the time 9pm came round we had only just begun to come up with ideas and it was suggested we all go home and do some drawing. Not much sleep again...people in the room were looking exhausted by then.
and so I had better get on with day 3! With our group meeting at 8:30 and I am hoping today we will be more decisive - from my background of finance, where I am used to having to set strict schedules for clients, I am not used to just doing lots of thinking but not getting stuff down, so am hoping we do that quickly this morning so we have something for 230pm...wish us luck...
All sounds familiar.....
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