Week 5

The 'Fishbowl' strategy

This week, alongside our group work, we dedicated some time to the development of our own personal abstracts. We looked at how we would curate the group work and distil selected elements into our individual work, ensuring cohesive thinking between individual and group work.

The website also went through several iterations as we explored different wayfinding techniques, as we tried to figure out the optimal way of showcasing our research. We were struck by inspiration in the form of a scene from 'Scooby Doo: The Movie' (2002) in which Shaggy must save his friends by retrieving their ghosts from a big bowl containing hundreds of other ghosts. When applied to our website, this strategy would allow the user to dip in-and-out of each topic without having to scroll through all of the other topics, so that the reader would not be overwhelmed by too much information at once. The accessibility of a website is significant to our studio as it reinforces our aims of looking to the future of technology.

We later decided to describe our strategy for the website as a "fishbowl analogy", because we decided that "Scooby Doo ghost bowl scene analogy" didn't sound very academic.

We also began filming several sections of the video, aiming to have it finished before our study trip to Porto the following week.