While I was researching for my RSA project I found this project. This project is amazing! I would like to do something like this, but instead of this subject/theme I would like to do something about Graphic Design.
For me, as a designer, it's so difficult to explain what graphic design is about. So, why don't ask the students to define graphic design and see what they come up with and the way they have to explain is designing a billboard or a poster to explain what graphic design means to them. It has to be something that people can understand, it has to communicate really quickly and in a simple way, the message, because, if it's a billboard, the people who are going to look at it just have few seconds to see, so the message has to be clear! And that is the challenge...!!
And it will be a contest, so the winner will have the poster/billboard on the streets, on the tube, everywhere!
I think this could be a very interesting project or strategy to engage students about design, because they will be DOING IT! They will be engaged, they will be involved, because they will be creating and solving a problem! And that what design is all about!
Task 3 - Contact 2 organizations:
I went to some Secondary Schools to make an appointment with the teachers of the Design and Technology department but, so far, no answer from any of them. I also went to the Design Museum to find out what kind of workshops they organize for students in Secondary Schools.
They have lots of workshops and enterprises projects running all the time but the workshops take place in the Museum and most of the enterprises are given to Secondary Schools' teachers, which means that Design Museum never goes to a Secondary School to set up a workshop or a project. So, I thought it could be a good idea to change that. Having the Design Museum as a partnership we could do something inside the Secondary Schools for the students to fully engage the project and feel part of it, and consequently, be more aware with Design!
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