WEEK 11: DESIGN+CONCLUSION

This particular exercise was first difficult to first recall a topic or subject that was memorable. I decided to go with what I was relatively familiar with- The Tolkienn series, mostly because that was all I ever watched/listened to when going through some stressful work nights.

In terms of presentation, straightforwardness and clarity helped with delivery of the conceptual understanding of the project. The spatial experience is harder to judge for each project though, as that particular aspect is optimally judged through sight (imagery) rather than vocals. Images appealed more to empathy since we were able to directly interpret the pictures for ourselves which I suppose, since everyone has different perceptions even viewing the same project, we would ‘feel’ that we have a larger understanding to that design because of the level of empathy we could potentially have. Ultimately we were able to discern, as a group, that as presenters we were able to have relatively fair distributed factors across the Logos/Ethos/ Pathos board. The most interesting thing about this task was getting into the specifics of the emotion felt when studying the contents of the topic chosen by one’s own choice and other peer’s chosen projects. It seems these are the more memorable projects at present moment to each of us and holds some sort of ‘ethos’ and emotional significance to us. Also learning about the categories through this task helped my gain awareness of how to structure presentations that I could use, into strategies on delivering a more empathetic project.

This topic was more challenging to reflect on because presentation skills were not quantifiable and I actually have issues with not having a ‘number’ to support an evidence. In this sense, either I can get used to the idea of trusting the information spread in anecdotes more readily, or diagramming out the rhetoric triangle with more emphasis in pointers inside the Logos category could help with these trust issues.