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With the Film Space, the students have to design how they represent their movie
in static images and how their constructs can relate to these images. Again, scale is
an issue as A1 become very restrictive a format for this ‘freer’ presentation.
The Digital Space programme is less problematic, in this programme control and
editing is essential in order to represent the work appropriately. As a School we are
questioning the appropriateness of such a restrictive submission format, and as
Technology become the mainstay of the students work, digital submissions will have
to be trialled.
Our perception of success of the programme is, of course anecdotal, and it is obviously
impossible to assess what the results might have been if a more traditional design
process had been taken. What is evident is that the use of the computer to generate
drawings, particularly 3d images is more common place than in previous years. The
students have been introduced to an alternative design process that they can draw on
in the future, they have made investigations and revealed spatial relationships quite
different to any previously encountered. In addition to this, they have engaged with,
and become relatively competent with computer technology and used it as a design
tool and not just a hi-tech pencil. Future development of the program will require
students to move away from simple formal associations to the studied activity and
help students carry the spatial discoveries and strategic thinking achieved during the
research portion of the program into their design proposals.