DESIGN CHARETTE 5: Pin-up

As Kristi Simpson (accessed October 30, 2012) states, pinning up creates a platform in which not only your team, but other groups can discuss your work. When we did an informal pin-up of our work just before our D2 formal presentation we were able to get valuable feedback from our tutors and our peers, and we were able to listen to other class groups feedback too. Listening to the other pin-up presentations was able to give us ideas and helped us learn and develop our own ideas by seeing how the solved the same problems we came up against. It helped open your mind to other solutions to what you thought you had found the only and best solution for. With design being such a collaborative and group activity by nature, this concept is well known to us as being advantageous. This also really opened up our group ‘community’ to our classroom ‘community’ (which will be discussed in FINAL DESIGN in relation to Activity Theory) and expanded our knowledge base. We also learnt plenty from our D2 and D3 formal presentation pin-ups. There is no use keeping ideas to yourself and hoarding them. Getting ideas out there and letting them be viewed and considered from different disciplines and learning styles helps evolve ideas and concepts and it achieves a better result (as agreed by Amy Saunders (accessed October 30, 2012)).