I spend a good amount of my time drifting in and out of space and time.
Just staring blankly into the ether imagining things that are impossible.
Upon starting my last quarter of school I’ve got this monkey on my back.
The monkey’s name is “What are you gonna do with your life?” and she’s a real heavy bastard.
Our Senior Capstone projects are coming upon their due-date and I barely know what the end product of my dream research will be.
Originally I had this idea to tell the story of the concept of a social network based on dreams.
This idea was too abstract to grasp, although I had a game plan set out in my head, translating it to UC’s rubric proved nearly implausible.
Plan B:
Based on the research I found there are lots of theories about dream interpretation. It wasn’t necessarily my plan to interpret dreams with this project, but merely to spark a conversation about dreams. However the rubric criteria of “Must be socially responsible” reared its ugly head and I was at a loss as to explain why dream interpretation/appreciation was socially responsible.
It’s really a very narcissistic practice with virtually no scientific groundings.
Freud believed our dreams illustrated our secret and dark desires….which for some reason were all phallic…
Carl Jung’s theories while vast and cumbersome were more spiritual and inviting. Which is probably why Jungian Dream Analysis is the most prevalent in this field.
So I thought I’d do a short kinetic type piece to briefly explain these theories.
Well, after building the prototype I felt like I was giving up on my original ideas.
So now just weeks before the final quarter of my college career I’m facing down the barrel of the capstone gun.
Nearly at a loss for words/ideas/hope. I came across this article: HOW TO: Develop Ideas That Will Disrupt Your Industry
I’ve been trying to mash and bang my ideas into the university rubric, using all this energy to fit my ideas into some kind of predictable template. I know I’m better than that. After all, hasn’t the past 5 years of design school been dedicated to the idea of innovation?
So if it’s innovation vs problem-solving I think I’ve found my answer…
What was the problem that the solution addressed? Well, there wasn’t any problem, and that’s exactly the point.
HOW TO: Develop Ideas That Will Disrupt Your Industry
So my point is, while my head’s always been in the clouds, and I can’t always see where I’m going all of the time, it’s entirely possible to stray away from the beaten path and still find you’re goal destination.
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