Materials, Processes, and Ideas
Introduced| English | Meaning |
|---|---|
| materials/məˈtɪərɪəlz/ | Substances or physical resources used to make something or carry out an activity. |
| processes/ˈprəʊsesɪz/ | Sequences of actions or stages through which work is made, changed or developed. |
| ideas/aɪˈdɪəz/ | Thoughts, concepts or possibilities that can guide decisions or creative work. |
The decision triangle
- The CED names three working components: materials 材料 (substances), processes 过程 (actions), ideas 想法 (concepts).
- Every work is a triangle: what it is made of, how it is made, why.
- Drawings happen where the three meet.
In the CED triangle, the actions of making are the ____.
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Processes are the actions.
Let one corner lead
- An idea can demand a material (rust drawings about decay); a material can spark an idea.
- Change one component at a time to see its effect — the fair-test habit.
- Charcoal on torn paper and fineliner on film are different statements.
Synthesis: materials, processes and ideas that explain each other
Material, process, or idea?
Sort each item into the CED component it names.
You should change several components at once to work efficiently.
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Change one at a time to see its effect — a fair test.
Select all three CED working components.
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Materials, processes, ideas — not frames.
Name all three
- Name all three in your written evidence — scorers look for the connection explicitly.
- This exact vocabulary comes straight from the CED glossary.
- The link between them is what "synthesis" will later reward.
The physical substances used to make a work are its ____.
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Materials = substances.
Match the component to its question.
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What, how, why.
Choosing a material at random "because it looks cool" wastes the strongest tool you have. Every material and process should have a reason you can state — that reason is half of a good written-evidence sentence.
Idea: forgetting. Material: graphite that smudges. Process: draw a face, then rub it half away, redraw fainter. The three lock together — nobody needs the caption to feel the memory dissolving.
Every drawing is a triangle of materials, processes, and ideas. Let one corner lead, change one at a time, and name all three in writing — the tighter their link, the closer to synthesis.
Write from ink on wet paper
- The idea is rain.
- Ink is drawn on wet paper so the line bleeds.
An idea about rain is drawn with ink on wet paper, so the line bleeds. How do material, process, and idea meet?
The way the mark spreads is part of the meaning.
Why does wet paper fit this idea?
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Material and process are doing some of the work of the idea.