Refine your collection of precedents: Review the collections you generated in Thesis Research, sort/organize what’s no longer relevant, update your collection platform if necessary, and assemble as much new material as you can around your topic until you have * approximately * 100 resonant items * (try to include at least one item from each category below)
- Books, essays, texts; text excerpts, quotes; annotated bibliographic entries
- Concepts or keywords
- Theories, approaches, practices, methods
- Physical or found materials, objects or artifacts
- Existing works of art and/or design, created by others
- Significant figures/people: specific individuals, e.g., authors, thinkers, makers, artists, scientists, dancers, botanists that have influenced your topic
- Groups or communities of people related to your topic (publics, audiences, collaborators, etc.)
- Events: contemporary and/or historic
- Places: local, visitable, or distant; real or imagined; specific or general types; large or small footprints geographically
- Found between classes 1 & 2: books from printed matter
- Other artworks found so far this semester