Author: Thea Dubois
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Written Response
Foster, H., 2010. Design and Crime (and Other Diatribes). London: Verso, pp. 16–17.
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Methods of Cataloguing
Part I Chosen Collection: Curiosity Collections “What Women Want to Know” Methods of Cataloguing Recontextualising Classifying Captioning and Subverting Part II Feedback from my tutorial was that my third method of cataloguing where I turned the collection into a booklet was the most effective form for the message I was trying to get across, which…
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Storytelling and Editorial Illustration
Part I In a 6-hour workshop hosted by editorial illustrator Sunnu Rebecca Choi, we set out to make our own illustration based off of an article. Firstly, we started with a series of exercises based on idioms, the first being to create a mindmap of words and objects we associated with the text. Mine was:…
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Societies I
In our first societies workshop hosted by Abbie, we explored the types of societies connected to a piece of writing and images we were given. Our given article was about “dazzle boats” used during the war. As a group, we brainstormed and devised several communities the article could be written for, written by, or appeal…
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Written Response
Caledonian Road’s exit from the canal, weaving through the north of central London, is a place I pass by almost daily, a seemingly unremarkable site amidst the urban flow — easy to overlook and just another path on the way home. This path has become the focus of my observations, evolving from a familiar pass-through…
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Methods of Investigating
Chosen Location: side exit for Caledonian Road and the small strip of the canal in front of it. Rationale: I decided I wanted to learn more about the exit I would be taking when I moved into my new accommodation along Caledonian Road. I had walked this path before and originally had no opinions or…
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Infrastructures I
This studio session focused on the alphabet as an infrastructure. Led by Rebecca and Cai, we discussed a series of questions in small groups of 6: Here, we discussed how language and text evolve over time through generations modernising the language and text. One good example we came up with was how technology has caused…