The story of stone soup is an old children’s story. I remember this story was read to me as a child, and it has now been re-introduced to me on a whole new level. The point of stone soup is for everyone to contribute to make something marvelous out of all ingredients instead of keeping their own items. In my design class a few days ago we had a project titled “Stone Soup”. We were split up into groups and we all had to bring something creative and design related. When we had all of the contributions we were then supposed to make a masterpiece.
Everyone in my group had so many great ideas that we couldn’t come up with what to create. We ended up making one large sculpture of random shapes of cardboard that included everyone’s designs on it. It was a great way to go about the project. It is a lot harder to come up with one central idea than it seems. I feel that this project was a great learning experience for many people in the class. It showed us how to work and communicate between one other, not just as students but also as designers.
When ingredients, tools or ideas are contributed and shared with the group it will make the end product so much more creative and in depth than what it would be alone. I believe the point of this assignment was not just to re-teach us about the story of “Stone Soup” but also to prove to all of the students that communication as a designer is a huge part of this career path.
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