Lotta Sandborgh
Personal Project Report Draft
Guiding Questions
What AOI did you use? Why? Which specific section of that AOI did you focus on?
Human Ingenuity. Because in my project, my guiding question was how I could teach a dance choreography to a group of people and then perform it, this connects to Human Ingenuity with the questions how and why we create. In my project, I focused a lot on creating and learning because I like to create things, and I wanted to also try something new, like teaching what I created to other people. Sharing is caring!
What topic did you use? How do you relate to this with past experience and knowledge? How does this topic relate to your AOI?
The topic that I used was a dance performance. Since I am a dancer, I have done a lot of performances in my past with choreographies that I have created. I could apply my past knowledge from preparing and practicing for performances when I was looking for a song that fits well with a choreography (even though I didn't create the choreography myself). Also, I knew that you can never practice enough for a performance because there is always something to improve! A dance performance fits in with the questions included in Human Ingenuity because I had to ask myself the question: "How can I create a dance choreography that many people (with possibly no dancing experiences) can learn and perform?"
What were your goals when creating this project? What specifications did you design for you to reach your goals?
My goals when I created this project was to design an interesting dance choreography that would get a lot of attention when performed spontaneously at a public place. The specifications I designed to reach as much audience as possible was to have loud speakers playing the song at the most crowded place in Lund. For it to look appealing, I set up a goal to have at least 50 participants, all wearing a red santa hat, and everybody dancing synchronized with the music and each other. To show that the performance was successful, we interviewed four people in the audience about what they thought about the performance.
What resources did you investigate for the project? Why did you choose those resources? Were some better quality than others? Did you have any difficulties finding resources?
The resources I investigated for my project are youtube clips of past flash mobs, instructional websites for creating performances, and smart mobs. I also got a book about smart mobs called Smart Mobs by Howard Rheingold. I chose these resources because they are specifically about performances, smart mobs (which is a type of flash mob). The same techniques are used when designing and performing a flash mob. The book was sometimes a bit hard to understand because the book was aimed for an older civilization, but it was the most useful one because it gave me a lot of quotes, statements, techniques and other useful things for writing my report.
How did you make your choices about what information to use? How did you evaluate your sources?
I picked what I thought related to a dance performance and a flash mob. I payed a lot of attention to the book and the observation of the environment. I also looked closely at past flash mobs and what the techniques were that they used.
What exactly did you do to complete your project? What decisions did you make based on the information you discovered? How did you solve problems? How did the information affect your choices?
I recorded our performance and turned it into a video. Looking at the information I got form my resources, I adjusted my project specification to be able to have a flash mob of good quality.
Were there any specific techniques you developed during the investigation?
Yes, I have gained a lot of knowledge about flash mobs, and designing a suiting investigation with goals that are reachable!
Did you adjust/change any of the goals you put up as the project went? Why? Did you feel that you successfully reached the goal?
No, I didn't change any of the goals as the project went along because I put up a good goal from the start that I felt I could work to reach throughout the whole project process.
