What a headache!

 Well... never before have I had quite such an instant headache as the briefing session for this unit! Rather perplexing, to say the least! I didn't even know 'materiality' was a word and what a difficult word to spell it is. It is an interesting array of questions though, certainly something to really stop and think about - not that I think there will ever truly be an answer to them as of course every individual creative produces work for different reasons, for different target audiences and through different mediums. I guess that is why the questions are angled towards our own practices, rather than in general.  

Given that during this session my group was discussing the materiality question, my mind kind of took that question and RAN!

I started to come up with a few ideas and even started to do some light research during the library lecture/workshop. Some interesting ideas... but I hadn't even broken down the other questions at this point so needed to back track slightly.



Some interesting ideas and concepts as well as a fair bit of learning going on but the element of physical interaction and engagement through design that comes with materiality is something I do a lot and something I am very interested in so it only makes sense to develop this further.

As someone who is currently being tested for ADHD, this is an interesting question to research into.

 








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