A Melbourne design research day with one question
Use the library, NGV and ACMI as different kinds of research stop instead of trying to see everything.
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Places to understand. Questions worth asking. Useful ideas for melbourne commissioners, independent creatives and small businesses.
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A commission and a licence answer different questions
Clarify what someone will make and how you may use it before the project becomes a collection of assumptions.
Read the guide ↗Before you contact the RMIT Design Archives
A precise question, a workable scope and a clear intended use make an archive enquiry more productive.
Read the guide ↗The La Trobe Reading Room: make room for research
A Melbourne library landmark can be a place to work, provided the visit respects the people already using it.
Read the guide ↗At ACMI, look at how a story moves
Use The Story of the Moving Image as a prompt to study sequence, interaction and attention across creative formats.
Read the guide ↗Abbotsford Convent: visit with a purpose
Make a large creative precinct easier to explore by choosing one programme and leaving room for the grounds.
Read the guide ↗Collingwood Yards is a working precinct
Approach the arts precinct through its public programme, and distinguish a visit from an invitation into someone’s studio.
Read the guide ↗Prepare for a studio visit that gets beyond the portfolio
A reporting checklist for understanding process, with permission and clear attribution.
Read the guide ↗Give feedback someone can actually work with
Turn a vague reaction into a clear conversation about audience, purpose and choices.
Read the guide ↗Write a creative brief that leaves room for good thinking
Give a collaborator clarity about the problem, without prescribing every part of the answer.
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