Intercultural Design | Task 3: Final Project & Portfolio

Intercultural Design | Task 3: Final Project & Portfolio

  • Date: 08/03/2025 - 20/03/2025 (Week 5 - Week 7)
  • Deadline: 20/03/2025 (Week 7) 
  • Aishath Eshal Shihab, 0381863
  • Bachelor of Design (Honours) in Creative Media - Taylor's University 
  • Task 3: Final Project & Portfolio

Table of Contents


Instructions

Module Information Booklet

Upon the completion of the research, data collection, participation in all class lectures and tutorials, presentation of a complete proposal and research data, students are to produce visual design outcomes related to their interpretation of the given theme.

Requirements

Utilizing the data collected from Task 2, students are to produce visual design outcomes that reflect their interpretation of the given theme; bearing in mind to consider cultural and aesthetic aspects, balanced
with their design knowledge. Various directions and approaches can be engaged in, such as experimental design/art with the use of manual/digital or combination of both media.


Final Design & Presentation 




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Week 6

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Week 7

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Reflections 

Experience

During this task, I experienced feeling overwhelmed because I found it hard to believe that we could create a new, working, reliable map that people could actually use. I was in charge of drawing the map so even though I tried my best to make the outlines and roads as accurate as I could, I feel like tracing it from a zoomed in screenshot of the area from Google Maps would not truly make it 100% accurate.

Observations

While drawing the map, I observed that drawing a scaled map is pretty difficult. We did not need to have all the roads visible as the most important aspect was highlighting the different zones that Al-Balad could be separated into. This meant I had to pick which roads showed up on the map and which did not. At first I decided to only do the wider roads but some of the smaller roads were used to split the zones so I had to add those, but them it created odd shaped in the map if there were only a few small roads. We made it work in the end.

Findings 

At the end of this task I found that, a project of this magnitude should ideally take a few months or even years to perfect. In the timeframe we had, we did the most we could which was portray the specific zones and present popular stores and outlets in those zones. With more time we could make more accurate maps of the specific zones, add noticable landmarks, and overall make it more accessible.

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