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(a) operative diagram :: process

(b) operative diagram :: composite

assignment one ::
Continue with what we discussed on Friday. Do not be hesitant to push it even further than what we reviewed. Do not be afraid to manipulate the surface of your shirt. This is an exploration of surface and how you can deconstruct that surface to first discover relationships within the surface of the shirt and then how you can exploit that surface to find new and untold systems within it. From this initial investigation we will take conceptual themes found and translate them through other disparate surfaces. We want to analyze the shirt because of its own inherent construction. The placket, yoke, buttons, seams, fabric, thread, ect make up the image of the shirt. Once you begin to operate or manipulate that surface you will defamiliarize that image. From this you will create your own system for surface experimentation. Design is analysis. The important thing to consider during this phase is the why for what you are performing to the shirt. The system found is the reason and answer for the why.

assignment two ::
Download the Operative Diagram pdf in the right column of this blog, you will find the file under "images". These are high resolution scans of the Bodyline book I brought on Friday. At the end of the pdf are two more examples of how to diagram your operative or manipulative process. Each action you perform should be notated on this drawing. Your manipulations may include folding over or under or up or down, creasing, cutting, scoring, moving, taking off, putting on, rotating, hinging, sewing, ect.... Some of you may have more than one operative diagram to compose. These operations have processes possibly better notated in more than one drawing (look at drawing A versus B above).

This is a experimentation of representation. These drawings augment the original operations/manipulations you performed to the shirt. Notation informs the viewer of your operations. You will need to identify primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary, ect ect steps for your operative process. Then you will have to quantify your own system of notation. You will be allowed to use a black/gray scale for your lines, as well as red, purple, green, (NO BLUE!!!), orange, yellow, hatching, dashed or dotted or any other version of line you may classify.

Have your operative diagrams printed and pinned up on your walls by 8h30 on Wednesday. The format is under your discretion. Be consistent with the format you have followed so far in the semester.

You will have to present your manipulated shirt as well.

See you on Wednesday.