Above are the fruits of my first library trip for thesis. I have slowly been eliminating some as useless and plowing through others for information. The best books lead me to more sources, while others lead to dead ends.
So what am I studying for thesis? There's a theme in the titles of the books: they all mention "story" in one guise or another (narrative, fiction, literature). I have decided to tackle the idea of storytelling from a design standpoint, as in:
How were stories told?
How are stories told?
How will stories be told?
No, this is not going to be a new E-reader design (though I will cover that phenomenon in some depth at some point). I've set myself the task of looking at story through as many lenses as possible: philosophical, linguistic, psychological, anthropological, sociological, among others. I've spent the past few weeks defining exactly what I mean by "story."
This blog is hopefully going to encompass not only the "story" of my thesis but also the story of my fifth and final year as an industrial design student.
And that, in a nutshell, is what it is I'm doing.
Next time: what the heck do you mean by "story"?
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