What if...Self Evaluation

For our ‘What If’ brief our group indentified the problem of how to make graffiti more socially acceptable in Leeds, we noticed that there is a lot of bad graffiti around Leeds but there is also lots of really good graffiti that never gets seen, we wanted to get this work in the public eye and get people to appreciate the good work that is out there. We went out and documented the graffiti around Leeds so we could evidence our problem and support our reasons for addressing this problem. Here are some of the examples of good and bad graffiti we found in Leeds-

Bad Graffiti

Good Graffiti

For our research for this brief our primary research was gathered through our going out and taking photos of the graffiti around Leeds, we also did surveys asking people around Leeds about their views and opinions on graffiti. However all this research was qualitative and we didn’t have any primary quantitative research, to rectify this we went out and did more surveys and from these surveys we got a set of statistics.\

For our secondary research we look on a lot of websites and forums to find peoples opinions on graffiti and online articles to see what issues and ideas have been raised about graffiti in the past. We also found statistics, which was secondary quantitative research about graffiti all over the world.

I think primary quantitative research is the hardest type of research to collect, it was the only type of research that none of us had originally gathered, we did rectify this problem but next time it is something I will think about from the start when gathering my research.

Over the last two weeks five things I have learnt about design process are:

1.Collecting research before starting the practical part of a brief is vital, it helps produce a more informed and structured outcome.

2.When collecting research think what is relevant to the brief and make sure that I have a variety of research from different sources.

3.I learnt how to work well and effectively in a group and divide the workload equally so we achieve the best collective outcome possible.

4.How to work effectively by myself to produce work that will benefit the whole group and will fit with the work others are producing.

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Five things I would do differently next time:

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