Brief

Blue sky thinking....consider ideas for a future festival of design to take place in Manchester. 

Aims: 

Focus on process rather than product

Pushing boundaries and test ideas through different medias

Ideas in a state of flux

Learning Outcomes:

Demonstrate an understanding of the relevance of interdisciplinary perspectives and the professional world.

Reflect on their practice within a context of ambiguity, uncertainty and unfamililarity.

Demonstrate creative responses through a body of work related to project options and outcomes.

Demonstrate the ability to work collaboratively and articulate the impact of collaboration on their own methodology

Confidently present outcomes to an informed audience in an appropriate form. 

Lectures

The Trending boutique

'the future has already happened it's just that it isnt very well distrubted yet.' William Gibson

Different types of trends:

Marco

(3-5 years)

Transitional

(1-2 years)

Micro Trends

(6 months)

Trending - finding the right produce at the right place and the right time.

Trend methodology:

-political
-enviromental
-social

colour forecasting


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Fire starter:

'The only way to predict the future is to make it happen, express your passion and get others to follow.' Magnus Lindkvist

Ian Forrester - Senior Firestarter BBC

He is the out of the box thinker, nothing is too impossible.

no Idea is not impossible it is all about 'blue sky thinking'

- making the tevelision experience catered to the viewers needs. - Making the whole experience more personal, theatre like ( grabing the viewers attention)

- changing TV broadcasting forever