Studio Brief Two - Workshop Structure

As it was my role to plan out the structure of the workshop, I started by listing down a few main elements we wanted to achieve/incorporate with our workshop. The basis was introducing the foundation students to the undergraduate course, we wanted to give them a taster of ideation processes used on the course. We decided that it was best to have the workshop internally as not only would it bring costs down, be easier to organise and easier to manage, it would also allow us to incorporate as many university resources as possible and utilise the new library, use copying machines, computer suites etc. We thought as well as giving them a taster of the course we could give them access to resources they would use on the course as well.  We wanted to show them an ideation process similar to that of first year as well as being able to show them around as much as the university as possible. We wanted the workshop to have an end goal, or at least the makings of an end product, we didn’t want students coming and producing nothing but at the same time the workshop structure had to encourage the students to go away and carry on working in their own time, so I and we as a team had to find a balance between those two.

I fleshed out the content with brief explanations and time windows to plan out the structure of the workshop across the day. At this point I was unsure as to whether we going to use it as a flyer or poster so put the structure into a flyer format to take to the group for discussion. I later adjusted the flyer design to incorporate the header and the body text as well as the agreed colour scheme to ensure the workshop structure was consistent with the rest of the visual identity of the workshop in case we produced physical copies of the structure. I presented my structure to the group and they all agreed and said it was clear, simple and an accurate representation of the workshops content. We would split the day into research, generation and development sections which would all use similar process that are found on the undergraduate course and utilise the facilities and materials of the university.