SPEAKING FROM EXPERIENCE

Remembering what it was like starting my first week of college, how I felt and what emotions I experienced:

• How do i cook?
• I cant remember their names!
• Fred time?
• missing home and friends
• awkward
• Am i good enough for this course
• They can all use Photoshop
• I don't know how to get anywhere!
• Wheres my money gone?

idea one

Concept
Walking in circles!
getting lost and not knowing where you are is a scary and a big problem for new students to a new city

Ideas
Poster map of Leeds/college/town center
pocket map
website

Research
own encounters, Leeds council guides, google maps, other peoples experiences

Resolution
a survival kit for being stuck on a desert island or lost in a jungle
make Leeds in to an Island and help new students to find their way around.


idea two

Concept
Getting from point "A" to point "B"...and on weekends point "C"

Ideas
quickest way to travel to places
how many steps it takes to get somewhere and how many minutes

student accommodation to college.
train station to college
this will make sure that students will arrive on time for their lessons.

Research
walking and counting steps and time.



What is the problem I intend to solve?
how to find places in Leeds and where to go as a student.

Who needs to know?
New students who don't know their way around Leeds as it is a new city for them

What do they need to know?
the time it takes to get to places an a rough idea of where places are

why do they need to know it?
for time management and getting to know the city around them

What will they respond too?
a poster/map of Leeds and journey routes with instructions and time taken on

What research is required?
timing journeys and finding the quickest route with understandable instructions.

Crit feed back

Strong useful idea, as new student do not know their way around and need to know how long their journeys will take for time management. Desert Island approach adds fun to the project as maps can be dull and boring.


For my project I have decided to design one large map of Leeds in a desert Island style.
It will have the main building drawn how they look and placed roughly in the correct position on my map. I am then going to draw the rest of Leeds as an Island as I feel that is what it will be for a new student who has never lived in Leeds before.