Upon Reflection

+ What was your biggest learning that you took from this paper.

The biggest thing I have taken from this 12 week paper was understanding the learning process and in particular the design process. The stages we took as a pair throughout our first, more research based part of the brief, and understanding target audiences, moving to looking at how we can implement our desired action so that it would effectively meet our target audiences needs. This was difficult for Bryony and I but a great learning curve. Looking at how visual style can impact on how our target audience will interact with the space.

+ What aspect of your project are you most happy with.

The part I am most happy with for our project, is how we have understood our target audience, and within our desired space, have a point of difference to current spaces within university settings. The encouragement of cross disciplinary interaction is very important for us as designers to be fully successful in the extent of our ideas, therefore I think this part to our The Lounge space is very positive.

+ What would you do differently.

If I were to do this project again I would pay a lot more attention to already existing visuals and seeing what is being used to attract youth particularly university students and what engages them.

Thanks Tim and Phoebe, This core paper was by far the most enjoyable learning style!

Class 22 Friday 9 October

Came up with a few names over night, the hub and the metro but neither of these visuals were giving the feeling of a student social vibe. We then asked our peers in the class if something more along the lines of lounge were more appropriate. we came up with The Lounge and are now working on visuals that represent a fun social atmosphere that would attract first years in particular. This is so we can get the younger students attracted to the area first off and then they will become the ones that run it later on in the future. this is then focusing on the before during and after of our idea. 

Class 21 Thursday 8 October

Given up on the waterhole name, tim said it made him think of drinking etc So we are back to improving our visuals and changing the 

name. Both need improving so that we can attract the young students of Massey Wellington campus. This lesson was effective for us as a team as we worked on our strengths and kept looking at the space and ideas around the space and how we could improve the visuals behind our ideas.

Class 20 Friday 2 October

working on imagery The waterhole was the name we chose as it reminded us of the wild students coming together to one place. The feedback from last class was that it reminded them of the wild but that it was a student sounding name so we were reluctant to change it. We are going to carry on working on our visuals for next class.

Class 19 Thursday 1 October

interim presentation with our class and other stream -  we presented our visuals and idea to two groups from our class and then a group from the other stream. We then got to go downstairs and look at the other streams work too. The feedback we gained from our class and the other stream on level E helped us with some more ideas on the visuals for our space. We are needing to focus more on the promotion side of our event as VCD students - posters, website, Facebook adverts, buddy system.

Fourth Exchange

This exchange was by far the most effective as I had a set idea to present to the group and they gave some feedback on the event/space we are now moving forward on. They gave me their idea of what a social student setting should include. such as pool tables, bean bags outdoors, bright colours, modern vibes etc. This allowed Bryony and I to discuss and brainstorm what we thought would be best to include in the space.

Class 18 Friday 25 September

Todays lesson we had some fourth years come into class so that we could present our ideas and get some feedback/suggestions. We decided the snapchat idea was not working and to scrap it before we got too invested in it. One of the fourth years gave us an idea to create more of a space that would be used to socialise and distract them from the binge drinking side of things. We then discussed again with Tim and he told us to focus on the positives of young relationships rather than the negatives of binge drinking.