Dialog Project Critique

For the Dialogue project, our class had to create dialogue with 12 (4”x6”) planes of Bristol board and 12 (12”) skewers. In the critique we were asked many questions about dialogue and how we applied it in our project. The first question was how was dialogue created? Some designers had two identical spaces and were adjacent to one another. Others, however, had different looking spaces on two different planes. For my project the spaces are placed adjacent even though they are placed off center with one another. The next question was how is the sense of space/place defined? Tommy had the perfect answer to that one: “ When the space is relative to the scale it becomes a clearly defined space” For instance my project has tiny spaces between each plane of Bristol board, and one big open space in the middle. It is understood that those spaces are there, but as for a usable space, the tiny “spaces” are not useful. The idea of a system being generated is the way rods and planes come together to create a space or “system”. The fourth question was how does joinery support the concept/strategies? It is the way the skewers come together to form the joint. Some utilized this by gluing, binding, bending, splitting, or placing the cards/rods together to form a specific joint. Scale was utilized in the project, by enhancing the design of the projects space. Scale is about relativity; comparing spaces to one another. We must do this either intuitively or objectively. The scale when it becomes bigger defines a sense of space. How do two-dimentional images add to the understanding of the project was the next question. Drawings show detail that sometimes models do not show. They can show where spaces specifically are. With drawings we can subtract things out to give a better understanding, whereas models cannot do that. Finally, the last question was how did the initial project evolve? Some designers used previous models or precedents. These can evolve into the final outcome. My project I started out with a precedent and the first model allowed me to see what I needed to do for the next. My final is the outcome of the previous models.