Topic: RTP Part 2- Practice Exploration
Bruno Munari, is someone I only know on a surface level but I have used him as a reference throughout this project. I need to know more about him, but is it ok I know him on a surface level? He teaching about design and often through photographs, should we just get from the photographs a surface-level interpretation or should I be thinking deeper? I think the answer is deeper and I should look at them in more detail like the likes of feeling uncomfortable in a comfortable chair, is the chair even comfortable? It doesn’t look very comfortable, but I resonate with that feeling of uncomfortable …. And really that’s what made me use him as a reference so much, literally only because of the title of the photo essay, it wasn’t even really about the essay itself but just the title! How can a title be so powerful, perhaps he isn’t only a design critic or theorist or whatever he is, but maybe he is really very good with words also? Is he a surface thinker too and that’s why his ‘essays’ are so genius as it is scratch on the surface of his thoughts and we take from that what resonates with us at the time….is it good to always have such a structured plan, I am an over-thinker and plan things although, with this project, I had a plan at the beginning which I have meandered away from, and taken that more fine art approach following the yellow brick road to see where I ended up? I’m still not really anywhere, but I have more knowledge and a different way of thinking from how I did at the beginning of the project. Using references like Munari, Denning and Durham and Brown has help think more creatively in way but at the same time not….I don’t know how to explain I am still me but just less restricted in my own thoughts!? But in a good way. Certain things I have avoided like actually researching methodologies, but perhaps Munari is a methodology it’s just not written as one, and studying his approach further may reveal a methodology to his work which is so incredible.