Martin, Jess and Jen from, what I like to call, The Dream Team (two time winners of the Rotman Design Challenge) took time out of their busy schedules to watch us pitch our idea and give us feedback.
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Frank (one of my Rotman Design Challenge team members) is always "snacking".
His snacks are like meals for me. One night we were at school late, some of us ran out to grab food and he came back with grapes and a huge bag of granola. We have no idea how he found those things so late at night.
This is what humidifiers look like nowadays. Cray!
This is what my old humidifier used to look like when I was a kid =D
Target is the sponsor for the Rotman Design Challenge this year. After 3 weeks in problem finding mode, my team came up with, what we think is, a pretty kickass solution! We're really looking forward to the competition.
If you look at all the sci-fi futuristic storylines they all fall into one of four categories: continued growth, collapse, transformation or discipline.
I love workshop week at OCAD. Today we did one on presentations. Who knew there were strategies around staging.
If you want to connect with the audience but make an impactful statement you stand down center.
If you want to appear friendly you stand on the right side of stage.
If you want something to be in the background where it won't distract people you put it on the left side.
I learned about the thesis process for my masters today. I'll have to do a research application to the Ethics Board where I have to prove the benefits of my research outweigh the risks to the participants.
The stages of collaboration
I learned about the Harkness method of teaching today. It's so fascinating to me that there are all these different ways to teach and learn.
Summary of the Harkness method:
- Students sit in an oval table with a teacher. There are 13 people at the table.
- Teacher provides a math problem or a foreign text like Latin and the students through discussion and collaboration figure out how to solve the problem or translate the text.
- If 1 student gets it wrong, the other students ask questions to try and guide the student to the error instead of pointing it out.
- There is little intervention from the teacher and the students teach each other. Toughest part for teachers sometimes is becoming comfortable with prolonged silence. :)
- Grading is based on participation and they have these maps called Harkness maps where they trace with lines the flow of conversation.
Today I was in a workshop called Reverse Archeology where we pick a future scenario and imagine what the world would be like. We then had to create an artifact from that time period.
The scenario we chose was this idea of immortality and how you could potentially achieve that by swapping all your organs for mechanical ones.
That led us to think about biomimicry and maybe how we could choose to enhance your organs. For example, instead of your regular lungs, you could replace it with amphibious lungs that allow you to breathe underwater.
Here's the artifact we produced.
