Personal blog BA thesis

For this blog entry I tried to come up with 10 ideas of manifesting my work in an exhibition. I'm not really sure about this ideas, because I still don't know which direction to go considering I have to narrow down the topic. There's also the problem of mediating and communicating the content of the written work in a physical exhibition.  moodboard Some thoughts about the storyboard I planned:  If I tackle the topic as a "solution for a problem(the wine is illegal)" approach the problem is that at the moment I'm not seeing a clear cut solution and I'd have to do more research to come up with a "prototype" for the problem solving. So this lack of a mock-up makes it difficult to bring it in a video format.

 For the exercises  2 & 3 I kinda messed up. During the search for the most relevant subjects I fell into a research rabbit hole. Instead of bringing stuff(visuals, collages would’ve been helpful) on the table, as it was advised by the mentors, I just read and read. Thousand open tabs of relevant written things. Some highlights of my research: Luginbuhl, Yves, Howard, Peter, & Terrasson, Daniel. (2016). Landscape and sustainable development : The French perspective. London: Routledge. Interesting comparison between different wine regions within the EU especially in relation to UNESCO-sites. -highlights possible conflicts https://issuu.com/thetokajijournal/docs/thetokajijournal_2011-2012/14  Somogyi, G. (2012, December 20). Classing up Tokaj: Vineyard Classification and Appellation Control 2012. The Tokaji Journal , Volume Number unknown(Issue 2011/2012), 14-20 Complicated, in depth view at the very specific region(Màd) where the "problems" emerges. Here, without a...

During this Seminar the goal is to go through the whole process of the BA thesis in only two weeks. To start the process there'll be three exercises.  The very first exercise was about coming up with 20 different ways of looking at the topic we've chosen. The outcome of my second proposition was that I was stuck with too many possible ways of tackling the subject chosen. So I took the opportunity to sketch out the things I had in mind. I ended up defining the categories "focuspoints" and "methodologies"(what I often describe as the "approach angle").  Arranging them in rows and columns. As a critic of this very first exercise the mentors I got following input: - As a designer I should always take objectivity seriously - There is already a rich history of similar struggles from different regions available, where grassroot movements took place. (France, Italy -> labeling, other example is the natural wine movement) - Workshops and hands on experi...

The question this session is about ownership in the notions of:       open source          there are (almost) never new ideas -> references, assign other ideas     the responsibility, especially if other people are involved This ideas play in my "worst nightmare", if the BA project would just deteriorate into nothingness without leaving a trace or even be harmful for the people involved so I must be aware and prevent a top-down approach from the designers perspective, especially if I'm in a more privileged position. This is especially hard in synergy with my other fear of making too much compromises and making the whole work a chore to chew through. A good way to combat this fears is analyzing my skills and be my own critic(which I tend to do too harshly anyway). I also like to think that I have good ideas. A helpful resource is my own blog, which in retrospect I'm very glad that I did it that throughout: thoughts-on-inter-action...

What do I strive for? What could I dream about? For my personal goals I don't see them yet. I'd like to have fun during the process ultimately.  There's this notion of "justice" if you read the story, an urge for rehabilitation and an appreciation for the body of work of my grandfather comes up. I have several problems with this approach, on one hand I ultimately have just one perspective of this topic until now, and I do think it would be a disservice to paint my relatives as the victims.

  Observation For the observation part I translated a short excerpt from the book, where the my grandfather, the author of this book, describes the course of events of the wine laws and his stance.   Until 1970 it was obligatory to indicate how many "puttony" the wine was made from. This was possible from 2 to 6. The category of „one puttony“ used to be in circulation, but was later cancelled. The categories even ranged to 7, 8 or even 10 „puttony", but wasn’t ever used. Over the span of 20 years the laws were changed. As second step, the category of „2 pottony" was cancelled. Further in 1997 it was decreed that Tokaj wine could be also produced without the traditional manufacturing method! And then something happened which I believe resembles a particularly serious crime.   On the basis of a "commission" of seven people the regulation could be changed arbitrarily. And so Tokaj wine fell into French hands. It should be noted that there were no professional...