Critical Making Exploration
Assignment 1, Spring 2019: What is your question?
This week, we were asked to make a mind map of our interests in technology and design. I found this extremely helpful, it forced me to take inventory of all of my interests and visually see where they converged.
I started with my own interests: areas that I enjoy personally, industries I would enjoy working in and subjects I am curious about. Those are the big circles. Then, I expanded on those subjects, writing everything from products that already exist to ideas I have.
In order to connect this all back to class, I created another diagram of the themes for this semester and drew lines connected all of the interests and ideas I had in front of me.
I actually had to put a time limit on this exercise because the options and connections were so limitless. These are my results.
I do feel like I have a better scope of the class and how it aligns with my interests and goals and look forward to using this technique more. Hopefully, I can reference this diagram as I begin to chose a CM project.
