Establishing Context and Thinking Deeply About Form
What are your scenario ideas for your learning experience? Illustrate and Describe. What role is form — textual, visual, aural, temporal, tactile, etc. — playing in your ideas?
Our conversations, thus far, around the context for our learning experience have been quite high-level.
However, that all changed this week when we began to brainstorm and actualize our ideas. We realized the importance of context and that we could not move forward without giving it more thought.
Our idea pivots around building motivation and engagement for lifelong learning, confidence, and risk-taking. And in order to establish context, we simply asked ourselves “at what point in our lives would we have wanted to participate in an activity like this?”. We all came to the conclusion that an activity similar to this would have been helpful at points of transition/starting new experiences. Pivotal moments like the first week of college or the start of your very first internship — these are all moments that are defined by change and set the stage for great successes and even greater failures.
Currently, all of our ideas live in the physical space. We decided on this because our learning experience requires openness and vulnerability — states that are best developed in a physical environment with others. At a deeper level, we’re exploring textual, visual, temporal, and tactile ways to engage our learners and to make the overall experience feel more immersive.
Using a simple star diagram, we were able to break down the various forms of learning that our experience would embody.
Currently, our ideas are leaning toward the tactile and temporal. Temporal design is something that our group is extremely fascinated by. We’re thinking of not only visual and interactive methods to engage our learners but also thinking about how change, progression, and control come together to form a more holistic learning experience.
We’re exploring temporal design by creating a “full circle moment” — moments where you realize that things just happen for a reason. By showing how exercises connect or revisiting something from the past, we’re giving our learners opportunities to see their growth and development over a short period of time.
In the next few weeks, we’re keen to explore more of these forms and specifically play around with visuals that excite and breathe a visual identity into our learning experience.
