Final Major Project Proposal Pitch

Today I had to present my ideas to my pitch group and Geoff. I showed them my two slides PowerPoint presentation.

 

The first slide includes research on different functional pods. Also, my visit to The Geffrye Museum.

Initially, I thought about designing a pod house. After I did research I found out about the different kinds of functional pods. This made me think about what kind of pod do I want to make? 

Geoff said that we are still in the early stages of the project, so I have time to research and consider what the function of my pod will be.

The second slide consists of pictures I took of things that has a interesting shape or form. Then, from those images it inspires me to create a variety of origami models. I wanted the structure of my pod to be in the form of origami or to be inspired from it. I decided on origami because it is something I have done before for a while and I have always enjoy making them. I searched the internet and found on YouTube, origami tutorials that teaches me to fold various origami.

For my project proposal, Geoff said that I need to write examples of what I am going to do to during the development stage, such as drawing, collage and the techniques I have learnt before during the rotations and the pathway stages. Also, he reminded me I need to add images and do the bibliography and action plan.  

I think what worked well was that I have already done some primary and secondary research. It is important to do primary research, which I have showed with my visit to The Geffrye Museum and all the images I took to inspire me to create the different origami pieces.

I think I should of have done more research into pod houses or other kinds of functional pods. When I looked at other people’s presentation, they have many slides of research and are all in depth research into their project. Also, the researched that I have done so far are mostly from the internet. I should be using other methods of researching, like using the resources in the library. 

I was mostly quiet throughout the pitch and did not give much feedback to others. This is something I need to improve on by being more vocal during the discussions. Since, the whole point of presenting to each other is to get feedbacks. Moreover, I was about 15 minutes late to the pitch, which made me miss out on the talk that Geoff gave at the beginning. I had to copy the notes from someone else in the group. It does not happen so often me being late, but it is still something I need to work on, by leaving the house a bit earlier.  

During the pitch, a peer talked about her visiting an exhibition called Sensing Spaces, which she really enjoyed. Geoff also suggested to us to visit that exhibition. As a target before the next lesson, I should have visited the exhibition. However, firstly I should research information about the exhibition before deciding to go or not.