Ashley Sample Architecture

 March 9, 2024     This past week, I unfortunately did not get to do as much research as I would have liked to due to other assignments and exams in my other classes.     However, in our class on Tuesday we got to share our research and breakdowns of previous capstone projects done by Fay Jones students. This was a great learning experience for us to understand which methods work in creating a successful capstone project and what didn't. For example, some capstone projects had a layout that seemed too disorganized and led to the project feeling as if it wasn't cohesive. Others also tended to seem bored based on a biased opinion rather than research. 

 Entry #6     These past couple of weeks, we have been tasked to investigate in groups capstone case studies done by previous Fay Jones Students. The capstone that my partners and I chose was done by Sarah Peil Winstead and is called The Work of Living Art, Empathy, and the Creation of an Aesthetics of Perception in the Early 20th Century. As we dove into this research project, we discovered it was about stagecraft and how to dissolve the barrier between the actor and the viewer so that the audience feels more immersed into the production. This was not really what we had imagined this topic being about, however, we did learn some valuable lessons from this project that we can think about moving forward in the development of our own research.      For starters, we discovered that having a more clear and concise title to our project would be vital for providing a good preview to the readers of what the research is about. Sarah did a very good job at laying ou...