After organising a meeting with my new group for the next segment of the World Project (without Emma, who had to work), we've ironed out a lot of our problems with the project. For next week's class, we have a clear path forward.
Our new project was the brain project. This was a world inside a mind, with different regions representing functions of the brain.
In looking back at the previous groups' work, we found ourselves a bewildered by it's complexity, and thought there were a couple problems. They wrote 6000 words for their project, along with drawings and sketches. It seemed like they hadn't really consulted each other over the details, so there were contradictions between the different regions of the world.
For example, the pariental lobe and the temporal lobe contradicted each other. Both seemed to have the same purpose, of holding on to the memories and purposes behind the mind's life, so it seemed redundant to have both of them.
We tried to clarify each region's purpose in the brain. This meant removing some of the detail that had already been put it. We didn't want to trample over their ideas, so we didn't really change the overall design, just streamlining it so it would be more understandable. An example of this was how we got rid of the names for everything, since we thought they were confusing and also unnecessary during the design stage of the project.
I was more concerned with the way the world would actually look, since I couldn't visualise what the previous group had given to us. It wasn't clear to me if the world literally rested inside someone's brain, or was a world that only represented the brain. We decided on making it a city-state that looked like landscape on earth, rather than having it literally be within the brain. It seemed to be the best solution.
After all these decisions and adjustments, we decided to split off to tackle different regions of the project, and really iron down their appearance. We agreed that we would regroup on Friday the 6th, and outline the appearance of the entire world, and how they would connect to one another.
Our new project was the brain project. This was a world inside a mind, with different regions representing functions of the brain.
In looking back at the previous groups' work, we found ourselves a bewildered by it's complexity, and thought there were a couple problems. They wrote 6000 words for their project, along with drawings and sketches. It seemed like they hadn't really consulted each other over the details, so there were contradictions between the different regions of the world.
For example, the pariental lobe and the temporal lobe contradicted each other. Both seemed to have the same purpose, of holding on to the memories and purposes behind the mind's life, so it seemed redundant to have both of them.
We tried to clarify each region's purpose in the brain. This meant removing some of the detail that had already been put it. We didn't want to trample over their ideas, so we didn't really change the overall design, just streamlining it so it would be more understandable. An example of this was how we got rid of the names for everything, since we thought they were confusing and also unnecessary during the design stage of the project.
I was more concerned with the way the world would actually look, since I couldn't visualise what the previous group had given to us. It wasn't clear to me if the world literally rested inside someone's brain, or was a world that only represented the brain. We decided on making it a city-state that looked like landscape on earth, rather than having it literally be within the brain. It seemed to be the best solution.
After all these decisions and adjustments, we decided to split off to tackle different regions of the project, and really iron down their appearance. We agreed that we would regroup on Friday the 6th, and outline the appearance of the entire world, and how they would connect to one another.
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