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Meeting: 24 March

Attendance: Frits Bovill, Mario Djuhadi, Dinda Pradi
Apologies: None
When: 24 March 2008
Where: MSN
Duration: 1 hour

Activities:

1. Discuss the scoping lists that we did
2. Defining our topics:

-     Popular culture (music, film, fashion, food)
-     Language and colloquialism
-     Customs & Religion
-     The World’s Leading Language

Next meeting plan: Looking for more ideas to refine our topics

Frits’ Notes 22

Cultural interpretation

· How one culture interprets the characteristics of another: This may include:

Ø How music is interpreted (good, bad, humorous [Eg Eurovision song contest]) this area can be broken down into heaps of categories

Ø Language: for example slang (how slang is formed within a specific country or specific region; how it can be easily misinterpreted or completely misunderstood by another culture … eg. Billy Connolly mimicking a Scotsman who’s accent is so thick, no-one else can understand him; satire)

Ø Fashion: Even within a culture, how time affects people’s perceptions about what is ‘cool’ or ‘funny’

Ø Differences/similarities = what is the threshold, or turning point at which one culture can be interpreted/accepted by another? E.g. Are there universal customs/traits between cultures? Is culture/religion necessary to effective communication between cultures? What are the basic human traits that we all share? I’m thinking there may be room here to identify our ‘problem’; perhaps we could deal with racism or less severely, how different cultures can find a common ground from which to interact with one another…

Ø I’ve got other ideas but can’t remember them!

First meeting: Scoping

Attendance: Frits Bovill, Mario Djuhadi, Dinda Pradi
Apologies: None
When: 22 March 2008
Where: MSN
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes

Activity

For Friday, 11 April 2008

1. Layout some research problems
2. Decide what method research we are going to use
3. Change blog permalink
4. Fix the structure of the blog into more clear and effective
5. Read more articles (ongoing)

Meeting: 8 April

Attendance: Frits Bovill, Mario Djuhadi, Dinda Pradi
Apologies: N/A
When: Tuesday, 8 April 2008
Where: Sushi Bar
Duration: 2 hours

Group Issues:

• Providing clear and solid topic
• Determining research problems and design research methods

Activities:

• Establish definite topic “Language Interpretation“
• Do some sketching in regards to our topic

Next meeting plan:

• Define research problems and how can we apply these to design research method.
• Put “To do list” under category
• Fix the blog into a better structure

Minutes: 6 April

Attendance: Frits Bovill, Mario Djuhadi, Dinda Pradi
Apologies: None
When: Sunday, 6 April 2008
Where: QV buidling
Duration: 2 hours 30 minutes

Activities:

1. Define topics, problems, aims and to do list on “Official and Rogue Language“

Next meeting plan: Think of design research methods

Meeting: 5 April

Attendance: Frits Bovill, Mario Djuhadi, Dinda Pradi
Apologies: None
When: Saturday, 5 April 2008
Where: QV buidling
Duration: 4 hours 30 minutes

Activities:

1. Review topics and articles
2. Clarify topic of colloquialism
3. Design a topic overview map that we have covered

Next meeting plan: Refine possible topics

Week 5 : Scoping

WEEK 5 : SCOPING
Meeting held on 28th March 2008 at the QV Building at 18.30

1. Attendance :
Frits Bovill, Dinda Pradi, Mario Djuhadi

2. Apologies :
N/A

3. Research Topics :
Vernacular and Colloquialism

4. Group Roles :
Manager : Frits Bovill
Secretary : Dinda Pradi

5. Distribution of tasks :
Further scoping of related topics as discussed in meeting (no formal task distribution at this stage)

6. Group Issues :
Misunderstanding of the work requirements (to resolve in next class)

7. Other Issues :
Work for each week (refer to ‘Timeline’ page)

Meeting: 28 March

Attendance: Frits Bovill, Mario Djuhadi, Dinda Pradi
Apologies: N/A
When: Friday, 28 March 2008
Where: QV buidling
Duration: 5 hours

Activities:

1. Find possible topics in terms of “Vernacular”, define and did a quick scope on each of them:

• Colloquialism (Afro American, Jargon, )
• Pidgin
• Language context
• Secret Language
• Phonenetics
• Abbreviation
• Connotation

Next meeting plan: Narrow down the topics we have listed, Frits going to bring DVD as a sample of jive talk