Critiquing Thesis

Abstract

Introduction It is generally accepted throughout any design school that the process of critique generates ideas around the topic being analyzed. While ideas may not be directly derived from the critique itself, this type of conversation, at the minimum, can open other paths towards new possibilities. It grants the author the insight to new perspectives surrounding work and how it is functioning. Critique also opens the door for other individuals to insert new areas of expertise in to the process, that is if the critique isn’t considered a final one. Even then does an idea truly end just because the project currently representing it does? Critique also offers the possibility to fracture the process. With the interjection of new opinions, knowledge, and experiences it becomes easier to analysis the work being and decide if a new approach is more suited to addressing the problems at hand. This doesn’t require the abandonment of pervious work either. On the contrary, the pervious work gains new meaning when being reexamined under a new light. The repeated fragmentation of an idea allows for a more complete understanding of said idea. The linear process offers one type of thinking, never truly challenging itself with conflicting thoughts or other views, it just steadily grows yet never changes at the core. So why not appreciate a collection of fragments, rather than a string of thoughts?