Design Process OUGD405
Studio Brief 1 'Wayfinding'
-Hand in 13th January Final Crit
-Monday and Friday sessions
Wayfinding can be defined as spatial problem solving. It is knowing where you are in a building or an environment, knowing where your desired location is, and knowing how to get there from your present location.
“Most sign systems have the appearance of an objective, functional, almost scientific construction. However, under the surface one can find many subjective motives."
objective factual, something everyone can agree on
subjective opinion, feeling, reliant on individual perspective and interpretation.
Experimental Jetset
A sign system is basically an interpretation of a space. By suggesting a way from A to B, the sign system shows its selective nature: of all possible ways to go from A to B, the sign system shows only one.
Sarah Boris
Mijksenaar
Research
1. Break down the Brief, Simplify to keywords
2. Challenge conventions- list all conventions and their opposites
3. Site research- study things you want to sign
4. Interviews / Surveys
5. Reading into design, art, history, sociology, politics
6. Photograpy / Video
Conventions:
objective- subjective
uniform- varied
stable- dynamic
clarity- stylised
universal- particular
authority- novice
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