Process Blogs

Keeping a Process Blog

Documentation of your research process is an integral part of your Thesis; it records the many steps in the discovery and creation of the work. This is important because it allows you to:

  • Review & Reflect
    Process documentation allows you to review and reflect on the iterative journey of your ideas and their physical manifestations over time. Being able to do this is vital when you’re seeking to refine your process.
  • Save Ideas for Future Projects
    Process documentation can often be the catalyst for future projects that derive from some unexplored thread in the original idea.
  • Recapture
    Process documentation captures previous points in the life of a research and design project—points that you may need to go back to if the chosen direction does not prove successful.
  • Share Your Process
    Process documentation provides ample material with which to communicate to a public audience the narrative of your work, the evolution of your ideas, and the morphology of materials and forms. 

With this in mind, throughout the duration of the semester every student must carefully document all of the work created in this class, from brainstorming sessions with post-it notes to research summaries to experiments and prototypes. You will post this documentation on your process website on a daily or at least weekly basis.

You have several options:

  • Create a dedicated wordpress via NYU Web Publishing.
  • Create a dedicated medium site for this course only.
  • If you prefer to use another platform please clear it with instructors first. 

WordPress & Server Integration

If you need server space or help with WordPress installation please follow the following link: bxmc.poly.edu/techsupport or If you don’t already have server space, please ask Elton Kwok, IDM’s Technology Director, eltonkwok@nyu.edu.

 

Remember: you never know who may discover your process website.