By: Haya & Nia
For our final presentation/exhibition, we have decided to create a magazine called “A Dummies Guide to J-term in Berlin”. In our magazine, we are going to include our events in Berlin, for instance, pictures we have taken around to showcase our full experience. Berlin is a very lively city and we wanted to show our experience as students and what we have seen around.
Additionally, we intend to show our different making assignments along with our classmate’s assignments (if possible). I (Haya) thought it would be nice if we could include a few of everyone’s assignments and developments over the past 3 weeks, but we are still in the process of developing the ideas in the magazine and figuring out what works before settling on a specific notion to go forward with the magazine. It would be nice for our magazine to revolve around the whole notion of creating and try to incorporate a sense of the creativity that we can find in the exhibition. While doing so, we are going to show our development with creativity and different ideas to spark it such as lateral thinking and more.
We are thinking of including different sections such as: “Creating”, day in the Life, artwork, graffiti, etc. We would like to develop our magazine and create an almost real-life magazine but include our own unique touch to it. Additionally, we may add more sections to the magazine as we go along and see what sparks our creativity.
Furthermore, regarding materials, we have decided to print out one physical copy of our magazine and create a link or QR code with the website version. We can have this QR code set on our table/booth and print out pictures with the code for people to scan and read the magazine as they take a break or roam around the exhibition.
Lastly, regarding who did what, we are both working together most of the time to brainstorm ideas and jot them down to create rough ideas and drafts. We haven’t really split up the work and are figuring most of it out together.