MYP Personal Project 2017-2018
Mental Disorder Exhibition
August 21th, 2017
At the very beginning of my personal project, I was required to choose a topic in which I'm doing to be working on and presenting within the next few months. As I was thinking about what project I'd like to present relating it within my personal interest and how I'd be able to interact with the community.
What are you interested in?
Drawing or computer programming, psychology (Mental issues).
Topics connected to subject specific knowledge
Art, scultures, animating, technology, psychology.
What will expand your learning beyond the school walls?
Research, practicing at drawing, getting ideas from other works from important people such as Pablo Picasso, Edvard Munch, Paul Gauguin, etc. Knowing why they chose to paint their artwork, getting to know about their lives, getting inspired by other artists with mental illnesses.
Brainstorm:
l Custom design
l Art exhibition
l Psychology 1 vs 1 talking
l Sketching
l Mental illnesses
l Suicide
l Anxiety
l Depression
l Bipolar
l Autism
l PTSD/Stress
l Mental Disorders
September 4th, 2017: Start developing ideas with a proposal form of the personal project making sure which project I’m willing to present. This led me to get a clear idea on how I'm going to spend doing my personal project, all the required materials, and mainly get an idea of the purpose of realizing my project.
September 11th - 25th, 2017: After having a clear definition of my goal and a global context related to my project, I made a plan on what I'm going to be researching about to have more knowledge about the different types of mental disorders.
Resource
Details
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Notes
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Source
Evaluation
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Issues/Topics
Addressed
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l Diagnostic
and statistical manual of mental disorders 5th edition by American
Psychiatric Association
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l Anxiety
disorder gives out an excessive fear emotion causing endanger behaviors.
l Stressor
disorder causes big frustration and thoughts through your mind that are
uncontrollable by flashbacks and nightmares.
l Depressive disorder
is the presence of making you sad, empty or into a really bad condition
l Bipolar
disorder makes an extreme change to the mood, way of thinking and behavior
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l Written by an
experienced author about my project topic
l Book related
to my personal project (mental
disorders)
l Relevant
information about mental disorders that are going to be chosen
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l Anxiety
disorder
l Stressor
disorder
l Depressive disorder
l Bipolar
disorder
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October 16th, 2017
Look at some of the rubrics at “rubistar.4teachers.org” related to my personal project (Art, art exhibition, art process journal) that could help me guide myself making my project succesul following each criteria from the website. This’ll guide me to start sketching what I’m going to draw and explain each drawing giving it a context.
Achievement
level
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Level
Descriptor
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0
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l Hasn’t
achieved any of the descriptors below.
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1
– 2
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l The
drawing is incomplete and it’s not related to the chosen topic (mental
disorder).
l The
artwork is not understandable due lack of information.
l The
artwork has no significant meaning or doesn’t interprets any mood or feeling.
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3
– 4
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l The
drawing is rarely completed and but lacks to relate to the chosen topic
(mental disorder).
l The
artwork can rarely be understandable but it lacks for more detailed
information.
l The
artwork rarely has a meaning and poor connection through feelings.
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5
- 6
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l The
drawing is related to the chosen topic (mental disorder) and complete.
l Uses
accurate art terminology and some detailed description of the artwork.
l Shows
accurate meaning and interprets some mood, or feelings throughout the
artwork.
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7
- 8
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l Making a
successful and complete drawing related to the chosen topic (mental
disorder).
l Uses appropriate
art terminology and clear detailed description of the piece.
l It shows
how the artist interprets reinforcing the meaning, mood, or feeling of the
artwork.
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Topic: Make a
mental disorder exhibition
Question: How can art develop a connection to the audience
within mental disorders?
Global Context: Personal and cultural expression
Goal: My goal is to learn how to connect feelings through
a drawing, have a relevant information about several mental disorders and its
importance of why it's a problem we have to take into account. Starting to
sketch and adding an appropriate definition to each drawing for people to
understand that they can still be given hope and prevent any negative actions.
For my personal project, what I’d like to outcome is to
inspire the audience and make them understand that it’s never the end of the
world by making them understand each symptom of such mental disorder and making
the audience attracted by the artwork having a connection through their
feelings and mind.
To be able to demonstrate a high quality product, I'll
have to fulfill the criteria that I’ve personally made, in which the artwork
has to include a significant meaning and description of the mental disorder of
the drawing.
To test my
product, once few draft sketches are drawn, a survey will be taken by asking
several people about the artwork.
A successful
outcome would be to develop a drawing in which the audience will be able to
actually have a connection throughout the artwork and for them trying to
understand the purpose of the drawing by having getting inspired from such
mental disorder drawing. On the other hand, an unsuccessful outcome would be to
only draw without such a meaning or purpose of why the artwork was even made
and losing its popularity by attracting nobody.
Specific
vocabularies that need to be included are strong, emotional and interpretive
ones in which can attract the audience’s attention when presenting the final
product.
These
specifications allow me to test out and evaluate my product within my global
context (personal and cultural expression) as I’ll be trying on using my
terminology, creativity and in a way in which I can express my feelings towards
others connected to my goal, which it’s to make them understand what each
mental disorder drawing that’ll be realized represents.
October 23rd, 2017
To start with my personal project, I’ve started to progress by having an idea by brainstorming several options of what my project could be for the following months. I found difficult choosing which topic I’d like to present for my personal project which took me several days to decide. To overcome this, I chose a project that best benefits and relates me which was art and to help people who’re suffering from mental illnesses, as for this, my project is going to be an art exhibition of mental illnesses. I need to improve on increasing more my knowledge about the project I chose (mental issues).
For my project to be successful, I need support by havina good understanding of the difference between several mental illnesses that I’m going to be presenting which are anxiety, depression, stress and bipolar or flashback disorders. The IB attribute that I’ve shown so far is “reflective” because I was able to find out which personal project I desired to present and looks for solutions of what I’m going to be doing for my project to be successful. Finally I’ve developed “Self-management” ATL skills as I’m organizing a plan on how to do my project, being capable of how to improve my work and being aware of any errors to be made and finally seeking out for feedbacks.
November 13th, 2017
As I finished my investigation and what my project is going to be, I've started to develop a plan on how my product is going to be done. Resources I need to develop my product are simple tools to draw, which are a pencil, eraser, sharpener and block art papers. My product isn't going to be using much tools, instead, they're simply going to be drawn and textured (shadows, colored, etc) with pencil only. The major step that I need to take to complete my product is to not just to draw, but to add details and textures to make them more entertaining with a sheet where it describes the piece related to such mental disorder. To complete each piece that's going to be represented of the mental disorders that are going to be developed, which are around 3 to 4 pieces, for every step in each piece would take approximately 1-2 days as for planning and taking action within the product.
November 13th, 2017
As I finished my investigation and what my project is going to be, I've started to develop a plan on how my product is going to be done. Resources I need to develop my product are simple tools to draw, which are a pencil, eraser, sharpener and block art papers. My product isn't going to be using much tools, instead, they're simply going to be drawn and textured (shadows, colored, etc) with pencil only. The major step that I need to take to complete my product is to not just to draw, but to add details and textures to make them more entertaining with a sheet where it describes the piece related to such mental disorder. To complete each piece that's going to be represented of the mental disorders that are going to be developed, which are around 3 to 4 pieces, for every step in each piece would take approximately 1-2 days as for planning and taking action within the product.
My plan is logical, but rarely feasible since the product can be developed, but it has to be planned in a sort of way in which it'd entertain the audience as for with the description and the artwork.
I researched for some examples within what I could draw to develop my project, artists with mental disorders and the whole definition of what mental disorder and its symptoms to create my plan. This would help me get a breif background on how I could take action within my plans by creating a succesful product that leads throughout my evaluation criteria. My plan allows me to develop my understanding of my Global Context, which is "Personal and cultural expression", creativity is shown through how the work is going to be developed and by trying to make them connect through the audience's feelings.
Timeline
January 8th, 2018
The
research that was applied for my product was based mostly about the DSM V book
talking about all necessary information such as meaning and symptoms of every
mental disorder and different types of artworks made by famous artists with
mental disorders. On the DSM V, it’s been decided to consult the resource in
order to understand and have knowledge about all kinds of mental disorder that
come into existence and the different types of possible symptoms within such
disorder and its consequences. As for the artists, it helped out to have some
ideas on why or how they managed to create such piece in order to get inspired
and to make my own product by my own style related to the goals I sought for. A
major problem was to understand the specific concept of how each one of the
symptoms on the selected mental disorders (PTSD, depression and anxiety) sorted
out, as in order to develop my product, I had to understand every detail about
the mental disorders to be able to connect my piece through the audience’s
feelings and mind. The solution made throughout this issue was to personally
ask questions to experts and people who have peer knowledge about this topic
and to develop obtaining extra information using other reliable sources. Afterwards,
I created a survey of the artwork to hear out some audience’s opinion and get
to know people’s actual experience, visual image and feelings throughout the
piece. It resulted quite well being able to know their thoughts and what they
actually felt about it, although, some errors were that they weren’t enough to
fulfill a high criterion score. This motivated me to develop my product with a
higher improvement as for it to connect through the audience’s and also to add
some extra piece within the product such as a story for each artwork. My
research and development of my product fitted with my Global Context as I can
see through that it follows up with its description being creative and matching
up with people’s feelings by extending ideas and values.
Timeline
August
21st, 2017
Brainstorm
ideas and discuss with my friends and family as part of the beginning of my
personal project.
August
28th, 2017
Choose
which Global Context I’m going to be representing: “Personal and cultural
expression”.
September
4th, 2017
Developing
ideas and a proposal form to see which project I’m willing to present.
September
11th 2017
Having
a clear definition of my goal and the chosen Global Context and looking for
some reliable sources that I can use.
September
18th 2017
Get to
know who my personal supervisor.
September
27th 2017
Have my
first meeting with my supervisor.
October
9th 2017
Research
about mental disorders and famous artists.
October
16th 2017
Creating
my own personal evaluating rubric criterion.
October
26th 2017
Have
my second meeting with my supervisor
October
30th 2017
Search
and start reading the DSM V suggested by my supervisor.
November
2nd 2017
Start
writing my Report.
November
13th 2017
Finish
writing my “Investigating” part of the report.
November
20th 2017
Advance
writing my “Planning” part of the report
November
28th 2017
Receive
the date where I’m going to be presenting my Mid-term presentation
November
29th 2017
Present
my Mid-term presentation of my advance to the MYP Coordinator and my
supervisor.
January
8th, 2018
Start
developing my timeline of what I’ve done and what I’m going to be doing further
in the future.
January
15th, 2018
Check
and complete the 2nd section of the report (Planning).
January
26h, 2018
Finish
my final product for the personal project.
February
2nd, 2018
Complete
the 3rd section of the report (Taking action).
February
15th, 2018
Meet
my supervisor to ask for any feedback needed.
February
19th, 2018
Start
getting ready and plan on how to present for the final showcase.
February
26th, 2018
Write
the last section of the report (Reflection).
March
5th, 2018
Prepare
and talk to my supervisor about the report
March
12th, 2018
Have
my product and report printed ready to present.
March
14-15th, 2018
Present
final showcase.
