Workshop day

Whilst working on the 'Road Works' project, I have been involved in mind mapping exercises where ideas are sketched and concepts dreamt up. Following are a selection of photographs (taken by Moryl Mamie) illustrating a workshop day. The day was productive and exciting which resulted in feeling like a good day work had been done. Ben Reason of Live | Work introduced us to a way to communicate ideas through drawing onto printed illustrations to create a mind map of ideas which were then sorted into categories. I found it particularly useful as a new way to communicate and sketch my initial, rough ideas without too much consideration to detail; it was a quick, pacy exercise to illustrate our ideas which helped them to develop into something more. In addition I found this new way of designing effective as it helped us to think quickly and bounce ideas off each other. The exercise allowed us to visually communicate the light bulbs of ideas above our heads!

[Image: Ben, Myself and Louisa, working in the DOTT offices at Krowji]

[Image: Ben and I sorting the drawn images into categories of titles such as support, inspire and fun]

[Image: All the sketches of initial ideas after a few hours work]


[Image: Detailed sketches]

[Image: Me sorting through the sketches and ideas]