Choose either for the next 10 weeks of the semester. Do not do both:
- Discovery Log (considered as input)
- Passion Project: Individual (considered as output)
- Each week’s discovery log is due on Sundays before 10am. However, I suggest that you don't wait until the last minute. I would suggest posting AS you discover.
- Discovery logs can NOT be submitted after each due date. Logs are checked weekly. You cannot back date them to get them to count.
- If you didn’t discover anything new, post literally that you did not discover anything new this week. This, admittedly, is a tough sell to me.
What’s new and different in your life in the following categories? Why does it appeal to you or not? Tell me about your post and why you are posting it here. What is this find and why is it significant? Posts must be thoughtful and of substance.
Post on your process website on a daily or weekly basis.
- Entertainment (Movies, Sports, Theater, Music, Museums, Zoos, Theme Parts, etc.)
- Media (Newspapers, Magazines, Books, TV, Radio, Internet, etc.)
- Food (Restaurants, Snacks, Home-Cooked Meals, Etc.)
- Hobbies (Skateboarding, Knitting, etc.)
- People (Friends, Strangers, Customers, Coworkers, etc.)
- Non-school Lectures, workshops, and documentaries.
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Select a daily, weekly, schedule and create and promote a self-directed project that you are passionate about
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Reference:
- Michael Bierut Five Years of 100 Days
- Stefan G. Bucher’s Daily Monster which then translated to a book
- Nicole Meyer’s A logo a day for branding 10,000 lakes
- Terry Difileliciantonio’s 15 weeks of games
- Dear Data by Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec
- From Personal Project to a 40-Book Cover Commission
Also remember it does NOT have to be digital or visual. It could be aural (i.e. music or soundscapes), culinary, etc. etc. times a gazillion possibilities. The main requirement is that it is a creative project that YOU have a PERSONAL PASSION about. And you do it on a regular basis. This is something you WANT to do, not something you think you "should" do. There is a big diffence.
Some examples of previous students:
- designing business logos
- designing a new resume each week
- playing music
- baking different kinds of breads
- singing
- working on DJ skills
- interviewing people regarding their fashion
- studying athlete's process/skills/transformation
- learning how to sew and sewing
- discovering new uses of AR/VR and AR/VR projects
- draw
- learning how to cook dinners
- baking desserts from family recipes and making a book
- doing a Bollywood and Western film reviews
- Exercising/physical therapy/running/working out
- building terrariums
- studying Wiccism
- mastering a kick-flip on a skate board
- reading books
- webdesign layout