CTS Team Building Trip

This trip was organised by Mr. Charles for us Foundation in Design 2015 July Intake Students.

The main purpose of this trip is

KRIZ CRUZ

Krzystof Izdenski-Cruz and his wife Natalia Cruz

His wife is his inspiration and muse

from poland

metalpoint(gold, silver, paper clip, lead)

FUSE

So we were to cross match an object and effect to create a new item. Using the six thinking hats method we are to plan our thinking process in a detailed and more effective way.

The Six Thinking Hats

THE MASK

So this assignment was about portraying the hero's journey through a mask, basically each of us is a hero and in this case it is a mask of my journey.

Procedures

We were asked to be playful to get our brain juice flowing nice and easy. So Mr. Charles did a class activity where he would quickly point to use and tell us a random word, we were to say anything of that word immediately, basically what was in our head. It was all random words until Mr. Charles figured our we can get started with the serious stuffs, that's when he pointed to us and this time the difference is that we've got to come up with a word that describes us.

Swag

That's right swag was the first thing that came to mind, not trying to be cocky or anything, but I think I am pretty swagalicious.

 Anyway jokes aside we've then got to expand on our chosen word through mindmapping. 

 

THE SOCIAL EXPERIMENT

We were to create a scene in our campus whereby the receiving end(random students) doesn't know this is an experiment and that they're being filmed - all their reaction, action, and responds.

"Conducting a Social Experiment"

For my group, we wanted to create something different, not being so mainstream ie. dropping your wallet and see who would pick it up, who wouldn't. We wanted to see how the youths of today respond in contrast to 'saying' and actually ' doing'.

Group

Our team, The Dramatic Hooligans, consist of Sue Zhua, Bryan, Sri Devi, and I. However you would not see Sri Devi in any part of the video of in any of the process because she was absent for well,  a few weeks. We tried contacting her with no luck, so oh well, we had to proceed without her.

Idea

Our main 'slogan' is "Actions speak louder than words". In order to execute this idea we came up with an idea where we would interview a couple of students on their thoughts of blood donation and whether they would do it. 

Here's a supposedly simple diagram of the possible reactions and outcome.

Scenario 1 & 2 most possible

Scenario 3

Scenario 4

Action 

The gist is that we basically we interview a random student and give out blood donation brochure about 10 minutes later, as simple as that really. However therein lies the problem, its as simple as that, accepting a brochure or asking further information, that no one does. Generally, we as the people would ignore, even though when asked face to face we would 'say' yes.

Gah watching the video would be so much easier to understand. Enjoy :)

Experience

I would say I personally learnt a lot from this activity, from conducting this experiment I myself realize that I'm no more better than those in the video. Honestly if I were to be in there position, I would react somewhat the same way.

Also I learnt the basics of video editing through a Mac, and how to take candid videos without being noticed (being a stalker). From the day our activity announced we knew it would be a handful of work that needs to be done, from planning this whole experiment - how, when, where, who, what - to the video editing part which we knew it would consume a lot of time. Plus the best part was we made a deal with Mr. Charles to achieve the top 3 most liked video in the entire July intake CTS course (which I'm pretty sure we did ;))

We stayed back everyday from Wednesday(right after CTS class) until Friday to discuss and conduct our entire experiment. I edited the video from Saturday until 3a.m. of Tuesday. What an experience.

THE FLYING EGG EXPERIMENT

To launch or drop an egg from the second floor without damaging the egg.

Submission Date: 19.05.15
Group Members; Abigail, Lukman

Procedures

We were told to think of the right questions that will get us far. Find issues that poses a problem in achieving our goal. Most importantly, come out with solutions to overcome these problem.






With each design comes a flaw, be it major or minor. The important thing is to reduce the chance of it occurring. With that set in mind we got to crack our shielded brains to be innovative and the same time creative-creating a unique and functional design.






Mr. Charles made it easier for us by asking us to assign role for each person in our group, the critic, the dreamer, the realist. With these roles each individual can concentrate in their given task, to do as assigned.

Group

My group consisted of Abigail, Lukman, and myself. Lukman being Malay, myself being Chinese, and Abigail being half Indian, truly it was SATU MALAYSIA. Malaysia truly asia.
















Roles






Basically the name of the roles are self-explanatory but oh wells.

The Dreamer- To come out with fancy ideas that doesn't necessarily have to work.
The Realist- To make the dreamer's dream come true.
The Critic- To point out problems that ruins the project.








Sketches and Idea




to be written





Complication





I always believe that nothing is a waste of time, and that everything we do is a lesson to be learnt. More so for this project, I've learnt the hard way to pay full attention to instructions given because I honestly taught that this was a prototype and the presentation wasn't until the end of the month.


Thank goodness we still put in our best to make this "prototype" work despite the fact we weren't ready for this to be presented as we didn't bring our full required materials.


Innovation right? To use whatever available to us at the moment.


My dad always tell my brothers and I to do the best in everything we do. And this is something I will definitely keep in mind forever.