chess

The task involved inventing a new chess piece and the primary was following its movement protocol through the chess board of the city blocks.

(pictures to follow later treat this as a draft)

This task was the anti-situational shuffle

We created the protocol

We created were in control of the movements

The individuals within the group were able to assume all roles of decision making or to the polar extreme of making no decisions

this proved amusing when we recived the second part of the brief telling us to go from britomart to aotea centere using the movements of our peice. (the jumping groups should have had to give piggybacks for their jump squares)
The group worked out that we'd have to head off 90° from britomart to be able to counter the two left shifts within our upwards movment

My groups piece was the new zealand piece (wanted man with gimp leg but it didn't get traction and wasn't worth focusing on) its unique movement was that it traveled two up then one diagonally from its heading to its left

For the presentation I tasked myself with creating the actual piece
I looked at the most comon set of peices with the curves and baubles
and set out a sketch based upon the current styling of chess peices, to create some degree of continuity on the board if our piece existed

during the documentation i decided to use lines to represent movement since thats how i approach the chess board mentally. a series of pieces that can move a certain line

Zaks animation presentation required a projector and it was interesting since he wanted to move the presentation to the front of the room, partially due to sheer resistance to the idea of moving stuff across the room, and mostly due to the understanding of using space for presentation I suggested we could use both locations, It created almost a similar action with the students walking up and a bit left in the gap between the two set pieces. (I didn't plan it to have a deeper meaning like that I'm not that awesome/waffly)

The majority of groups are still sticking to very flat presentations. and some struggle with conveying a concise narrative, relying on clusters of images to attempt to tell a story, also a trend occurs where a group overcomplicates the design adding unnecessary design elements to their presentation such as adding a series of arrows to the display when hey already had a semi golden spiral and could have come away with a more cohesive presentation.

scouting group dynamics I've started to notice different tiers of ability, who works well in a team, who are the more dominant students, still to early to analyze who has what abilities as there still is some caution/apprehension? this will most likely mimic CADI where a small group of individuals set "protocols" for how things are done. push the current bounds and the rest will follow, forming somewhat of a arms race, we'll see as soon as we get the first brief.