As mentioned this morning the idea with this first small task is just to get started checking some references and shearing your findings with the rest. To recap a bit on what to do:
-If you don't have any group yet from your main design project, make a temporary one for the first tasks (you can change later when the task from Representation gets more tightly related to your design work and the group you may have there). Groups should be 3 people, max 4.
-There is a list of themes to research ( by searching online, checking the library...) on the studio space, by the wall on the corridor. Choose one (write the name of your group by it). If there are no available ones, or if you are really interested on a subject that some one else is also looking at, more than one group can choose a subject.
-On the blog there is an Adobe Illustrator template (an A4 format with the file extension .ai) under Templates. If you don't have a copy of illustrator, you can download the Open Source and free program Inkscape (there is a link on Software, and I have checked that it works to open the template on it, at least in Mac). Mac versions of Inkscape are a bit buggy, from my experience, but usable. If you don't know how to use a vector graphics editing program, such as illustrator or Inkscape, this is a good chance to have a go at it! it will be very useful for doing layouts an reworking your drawings and diagrams in the future.
-The template has some test text and some advises for using it. It basically says that if you copy text or images, you should mention the source. This is not only right and proper, but useful for anyone else that may want to check where you have found stuff.
-When you are done, submit a copy of your Research task to the KTH Server, as explained on the previous blog entry. Name it like this: G+number + _ + name of reseach task.pdf (yes, export it or print it as pdf from Illustrator or Inkscape). The file could then be called something like this: "G03_SpaceSyntax.pdf" or "G12_GIS.pdf", that would be research on space syntax done by group 3, or research on GIS done by group 12.
-For getting the number of your group, just send me an email with the people in it, and I will give you a number.
We can then print them (I can do that since I guess it is easier) and have them all placed on the studio space, so you can all check also what the rest of the people have looked at. Do this before next time we meet, that is Friday the 23rd.
Good luck!