Planning my Sketchbook

Today I have been very poorly and unable to attend University. So I thought i'd take the time to create a plan for my concertina sketchbook and begin artist research. Below is a picture of my plan:

I have chosen to find an artist which is associated with each word within each theme, this way i have covered every aspect of the brief in great detail. Today I also began to compose various artist research files. 

Species of Spaces - Mini Sketchbooks

During this session we were given the task to create mini sketchbooks which would give us an idea of how we needed to set out our actual sketchbook. We had to create mini books which told the reader a story which slowly zoomed in into the actual meaning of the story. I used fine liners and pro markers to create my drawings which told stories of when I visited my grandparents in Spain and when I went to Berlin with my friends.

In the afternoon session we got into groups of five and were given a long stretch on paper, on which we had to map everyones memories and link them together somehow. Our group used thick black lines to show the movement throughout the page. The images below show what we created. 

Sense of Place

The first brief.

At first I was fairly fazed by the whole idea and the different ways that we could go about completing this brief, but after we had a group discussion I found it much easier to process all the different ideas which were flying around my head. Within the brief there are five different themes: exploring the city, the city as a species of spaces, the city as a system of objects, the city as image and the city as language. In order to complete this task we must concentrate on the purpose of the observer and what they want to find out whilst completing this project.
During the group discussion we looked at a number of different aspects, including artists, designers, authors and musicians. By doing this it gives us a broad spectrum of different types of producers who all do something which is to do with the briefs title. We developed a number of post it notes which were then stuck to one of the walls within the studio. We also received our concertina sketchbook which would be a catalogue of primary and secondary research.