{"id":277,"date":"2005-09-15T20:44:24","date_gmt":"2005-09-15T20:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/wp\/?p=277"},"modified":"2013-03-07T18:03:44","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T02:03:44","slug":"skeleton_and_sk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/skeleton_and_sk\/","title":{"rendered":"Skeleton and Skin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Almost everything constructed in nature, and constructed by us, is built on the skeleton and skin principal: a generally internal, supportive frame surrounded by an outer skin or layer.
\nMy Creative Processes class professor Duane Elverum<\/a>, who introduced this idea to us first-years, gave some examples last week (and I\u2019ll add my own, too): buildings (frame and walls), tents (poles and tarp), humans (bones and flesh), trees (wood and bark), iPod (frame and glossy plastic), websites (HTML and CSS), etc.
\nSo our first class exercise involved solving a given problem using (or at least vaguely keeping in mind) this idea, in conjuction with a three-part project methodology of strategy, goals and metrics, or measurable outcomes. But really we all got our hands dirty rolling and taping just heaps of newspaper.
\nThe problem was to build a self-supporting structure, or \u201chouse\u201d, with a roof that could contain four people. Our materials were limited to only newspaper and masking tape and our time limit was one hour.
\nIt didn\u2019t take long to figure out the optimum strategy, or the goals, and most group structures came to similar and successful conclusions. Part of the exercise’s emphasis, it was revealed during the post critique, was on the planning-to-production ratio involved in each completed structure, and the conceptual to technical skills brought to bare.
\nOverall Elverum, and first-year in general, repeatedly emphasize the “process<\/strong> of practicing creative endevour,” and as Elverum said, those three primary methods of project strategy will get you through any problem in life.
\nSome photos from the exercise, courtesy and copyright Duane Elverum.
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\nOne of the groups revisiting project strategy.
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\nA group puts their skin in place.
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\nMy group worked in twos: one half on the skeleton, the other on skin, coming together at the end in a flurry of masking tape.
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\nProject methodologies in the flesh.
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\nMy group’s completed structure (I am stuck in the back left).
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\nAnother group at home.
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\nAnother group at home.
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\nAnother group at home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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