We did try to do the charettes but quickly failed. We didn’t really find
them useful and our group ground to a halt whenever we tried. We found that we
were much more productive when we just worked how felt natural to us.
This just goes to show that set design tools sometimes aren’t the best
for your particular group and sometimes you just have to feel and find your
best working style rather than being told solutions and techniques. We also
tried using voice recording (as discussed by Jim Grey (accessed October 30,
2012)) of our informal pin up the week before our D2 presentation but we never
went back to use this. It turned out we were a very image driven, visual text
based group more which benefitted from visuals rather than sound or intense
text heavy communication.
We were relentless with the copying and recording of information- mind
maps, diagrams, drawings, visuals of any kind were all photographed, scanned
and recorded into our group’s Facebook page and Dropbox for further viewing and
reflecting as needed. This really came into play in the design charette stage
of our semester more so than the research stage as rather than keeping it all
in a journal or DDR, we could keep track of it all online where we could all view
and manipulate the same documents, rather than develop alone and starting to
drift into different directions. The importance of recording all this collaborative
information was stressed by Amy Saunders in her podcast interview (accessed
Ocober 30, 2012).
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