Week 7: Mapping Your Creative-Critical Projects
Visualizing, embodying, and organizing your space
With a draft of your research and some writing completed on your project, you’ll take some time to map out the territories and organize how your creative-critical project will look as a whole. You’ll consult some readings on particular strategies and spend time developing that map or outline via Padlet.
Mapping: The Why and How
To help guide your project, you’ll be mapping out the different spaces your work may explore. This could be through actually creating physical maps, charting how research and experience may inform each other, or a more traditional outline.
Your Prompt for Week 7
Based on the readings this week, what are some mapping strategies you could use in conceiving your work? How could they be helpful?
How do you see your statement of interest, research Padlet, and now your mapping/outline Padlet assisting you in your larger project?
After you comment, don’t forget to reply to at least two of your peers during the week. (And don’t forget to format your comment for readability. Use separate paragraphs!)
For my project I don’t see myself using google maps because most of my time in dance has been in a four by four box… also known as a dance studio. I basically have my environment for my project engraved into my head since it is from my personal experience. I think my memories of dance are so vivid in my head because I miss dancing all the time.
My statement of interest has helped me shape where my creative critical project is going. I know I want to write about myself performing on stage, the adversities and struggles behind dancing, and how alluring dance truly is as an art form. Using Padlet as a research tool has helped me visualize what I want to portray in my project. It’s a great researching tool that has helped grow my project even more.
I think that as opposed to an actual map, for me I have found that the best strategy for me is to take a bunch of pictures of locations in my story and tie them together with captions or explanations. i am not sure if this is more different or not than what the rest of everyone is doing, but this has proven effective for me. My statement of interest gives me a concrete idea of how I want my project to go. For my research padlet, it is helping me make more connections to add layers to my work. And for my mapping padlet, it is kind of similar to my SOI in the fact that it keeps me on a concrete track and keeps my ideas straight and organized