Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Jenga 5.0 Charrette

The charrette we engaged in on Monday was quite illuminating. It was revealed to me (whilst in the process) that lack of time is not a crutch; it is, in reality, sometimes an unavoidable obstacle and greater help. You are able to exert your brain to go, and even exceed that extra mile. The first group (Beaucoup) that we conversed with allowed the flexibility and balance that our group needed to thrive in order to produce an optimum result. We all proposed some intriguing ‘seed’ ideas, ones that could take off and grow big. You might think ‘wow; she came up with that opinion pretty quickly’. In reality, I realized this after we met with the second group (Jive). I could see, subtly at first, that we weren’t jiving (no pun intended!) with this group. None of us were truly enthusiastic about the joining of our groups. Whether it was from really diverse concepts or that we were tuckered out from the previous hour charrette, who knows. Regardless, when we came together, the attitudes seemed focused on just completing the assignment. Do not confuse this with believing it is not a good outlook; on the contrary. It is the best stance to have, however, in this case it was done with hardly any flourish; and I like flourish (it’s more fun)! We all jumped into our individual assignments and worked, completing them in a timely manner, but not actually doing our best design work (at least in my opinion).

The deliverables I completed were the following:

Beaucoup parley - concept sketches

Jive stint- statement (but really a paragraph) of approach

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