W1_concept sketch

W1_How to Draw Up a Project response

Design is a process; this is an idea that’s been drilled into our heads for four years now. At first we deal with the phantom, or as we’ve always named it the concept. Then there’s understanding and organizing the pieces, establishing hierarchies, or as put in words we have heard since day one, creating systems. There is also the part of the process in which we give the project more definition, giving it details. I agree with Mateo that these are different issues that are dealt with during the process in a simplified description, but disagree in the sense that he gave the process a fixed direction. Rather than being linear, I believe the process has more of a roaming path in which back tracking, rethinking, and refinement is part of the iterative process. It never turns out to be linear as future parts of the process inform previous parts of the process.

As I panic about the idea that I am about to begin a project that is to last me a year and keep me engaged, and allow me to grow a tremendous amount in the direction I chose, along with many other things that go along with doing a thesis, I realize I’m not even sure where to start. How to Draw Up a Project, the title of this text seems misleading. The design process is something we understand; it is something we have been lead through many times. Yet I am still at odds with the idea of how to start. What is the first step in defining a problem for the project to associate with?