Saturday, 20 April 2013

... Social Psychology ...


Assignment 1
Social psychology is the compulsory subject in my FNBE course semester 2. This subject is about the activities of individuals in the presence of others and the processes of social interaction between people. In assignment 1, we were asked to write an individual journal, which consists of 2 entries. Each entry has to explain our own events or experiences together with the social psychology concepts that we have applied in.

After completing this assignment, I have learned the first learning outcome, which is to apply psychological theories and concepts to my personal life and that of others. I understand that whenever we interact with the social, there must be at least one psychological theory that we have applied in. These theories and concept can be positive or negative.


The second learning outcome that I have obtained is to understand myself better
and my interactions with others
in terms of psychology. This assignment made me recall back my old memories about my interaction with the social, which includes my friends, my family and strangers. It made me to think back how I react and what is my behavior while interacting with them. Consequently, I have understood deeper about myself throughout this assignment.

My feedback for this assignment is GOOD. Why am I saying so? This is because after I joining this FNBE program, the busy study life has made me forget many of the good memories in my past time and this assignment gave me the chance to recall all of them. Besides, after recalling all those good memories, I found that I have done some wrong things in my past. It makes me to remind myself not to do it again in my future.




Assignment 2

In my assignment 2 of the Social Psychology, we were asked to work in group of up to 4 members to search for articles or advertisements and apply the concepts that we learned in Chapter 6 – Attitude & Persuasion (Part 1), Chapter 6 – Attitude & Persuasion (Part 2), Chapter 7 - Stereotyping, Prejudice & Discrimination, Chapter 8 – Prosocial Behavior, and Chapter 9 – Aggression. We had to complete 10 advertisements or articles. This assignment would also be presented in class.

After completing this assignment, I have learned the first learning outcome, which is to apply psychological theories and concepts to my personal life and that of others. I knew that social psychology theories are everywhere in our daily life. Even though the advertisements or articles in newspapers and magazines would also consist of the theories.

The second learning outcome is to understand myself better
and my interactions with others
in terms of psychology. I learned that even I would be affected by some of the advertisements and articles, which consist of Social Psychology theories, such as the promotion advertisement.

Engaging in psychological
inquiry and become self-regulated
learner is the last outcome that I learned from this assignment. When I was facing some problems in doing this assignment, I would like to check back the lecture note and solve it by myself. This made me to become more independent.

This assignment for me was very challenging and interesting. This was because we could not search the sources through Internet but only could search from the newspapers and magazines. So, it was quite fun while I was searching the relevant article and advertisement with my group members. Besides, this assignment also trained me to be more cooperative so as to work better with them. It is not an easy job to be done, so I like it!






Thursday, 7 February 2013

... Design Visualisation ...

Free-hand Drawing (Lines) & Writing











Project 1 : 9 Sketches
In Project 1, we have to concentrate on application of different types of sketching.
We are required to produce minimum 9 sketches exploring and experimenting on nine different topics.

The 1st topic is "Animal or Figure in Action" which the location is in Taman Tasik Perdana.

The 2nd topic is "Spatial Structural & Joint" which the location is in KL Sentral KTM station.


The 3rd topic is "5 Minutes Sketch" which the location is in KL Sentral KTM station.


The 4th topic is "Geometric Projections" which the location is in Sunway Pyramid.


The 5th topic is "Spatial Communication" which the location is in Sunway Pyramid.

The 6th topic is "Human Activities" which the location is in KL Sentral KTM station.
The 7th topic is "Object in Nature Context" which the location is in Taman Tasik Perdana.

The 8th topic is "Tracing a Photo" which the location is in Sunway Pyramid.

The 8th topic is "Creative Perspective" which the location is in Sunway Pyramid.


Project 2a : Architecture Drawings

In Project 2a, we have to concentrate on the objects measuring and present them in drawings technically.
This project introduces us to visualization and expression of objects through 2 dimensional documents.

Top View

Bottom View

Elevation

Elevation

Cross Section

Details

Project 2b : Diagrammatic Analyses

In Project 2b, we have to concentrate on doing analysis on a site, which we have choses within Taylor's University area in group.
After that we have to make a presentation of this diagrammatic analysis.

This is my group's report of our site analysis presentation.


This is my group's slides of our site analysis presentation.



Final Project Part A :
Art Installation (Schematic Design)

In our Final Project Part A , we have to propose an Art Installation which response to an event (SPARTFEST’13), functional program and users’ experiences.

We have to select and/or consolidate initial design ideas and develop it by producing a schematic plan, elevation and section, and a study model 1:20. The schematic should respond to the physical site, functional and event requirements. 






  Final Project Part B :
Art Installation (Installation Process)

In our Final Project Part B, we have to generate design through conscious consideration of structural stability, durability and materials selection.
The installation has to be made from recycled / used materials and the structure has to be made durable and stable to last over the duration of 3 days in an open space (consider weatherconditions and wear and tear)