Chosen Brief: Generate Something New
A process can be as important as the outcome. Instead of creating a static design, this project invites you to explore how systems, rules, or iterative methods can lead to dynamic and evolving results, where surprises emerge and no single outcome is final.
Consider the frameworks or rules you could establish—should they rely on randomness, patterns, or input from your audience? The aim is to create a process that produces something unexpected and alive, a design that feels as though it could never exist in a fixed state.
Chosen Outcome: Generative Design
Creations that evolve or vary based on rules, randomness, or audience input, resulting in unique and unexpected outcomes. Generative design allows the designer to step back, setting up a system that produces results independently. These projects highlight the balance between control and unpredictability, often revealing patterns or relationships that emerge from the process itself.
Generating Possible Ideas
- Use processing software
- Create posters- populated with random shapes, lines, letters, pattern
- changes place and/or colour every 30 mins or hour
- digital clock that also changes time?
- used on billboards, train station?
-OR a poster or projection people can interact with
- allows people to move things, add things, personalise it
My chosen idea was to have the time and design change every thirty minutes or an hour. As this is a software I am unfamiliar with I had no idea how to create this outcome. I decided to use Processing to create the randomly generated posters; this would use code to generate the design. This is a software I haven't used before. Therefore, my experience and efficiency when using it are lacking significantly. While experimenting, the first issue I came into was Processing wouldn't open; this was a hurdle I wasn't able to overcome and had to wait for it to work. I am unsure as to why this occurred. To combat some other issues that I faced, for example, not knowing the codes to use to create certain outcomes, I used chatGPT to help. Whilst chatGPT is seen as a tool used to 'cheat', I feel it came in useful for this brief and was used more as an assistant to aid me than a way of cheating.
Overall, exploring this new software is something I found fascinating but more overwhelming and stressful as I wasn't able to figure out what the code meant or how to change it without corrupting the whole code. This is where I heavily relyed on chatGPT to assist. While this is a useful tool, in my opinion in this situation it hasn't help me form a skill. I feel if given more time to experiment and if I didn't experience issues of the software not working, I could produce better outcomes.
