In class today we played ‘Iron Chef’. Now, being someone that doesn’t watch tv, I had no idea what that was. It was explained to me as these chefs are to make an entire meal in a given time limit and each course has to include a ‘secret’ ingredient that they do not know ahead of time. So that was us. Our time limit was an hour, and we were given styrofoam cups to create something out of. We couldn’t just create any real thing, but it had to be representative of the elements and principles of design and not be modeled after something. As our group started working together to form ideas, half of us wanted to model the cups after objects and it was beginning to get frustrating because the other half of us continued to repeat that we had to make it up. We played around with the flexibility of the cups as they were loosely stacked and decided to make something like a snake or roller coaster. I really wanted to disfigure the cups so that they were no longer technically cups. I am glad that my group members agreed with this. We cut them in half and thirds. We then began to stack these cups, winding and twisting them so that they circled around and flowed. It was looking pretty neat, but I think we all could agree that we had more that plenty of cups and we would have been okay if we didn’t need to use all of them. In the end, I think my group worked well together, but we could have done a better job listening because we missed the memo about having to use all of the cups, and that we needed to turn the hot glue gun down to low. I think we were just eager to get started!
Our Cup Pieces
The beginning
Playing around with different ideas
Our Final Piece
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