METHOD

Moodboard

Students develop a mood board to gather visual elements that represent an idea, theme, or mood.

The method supports students’ ability to articulate their thoughts and create a visual overview that can be used for inspiration, planning, or presenting.

1

Give or let students choose a topic, theme or mood they want to illustrate with a moodboard.

2

Students collect visual elements such as images, colors, text snippets, quotes, drawings, and more that relate to their chosen topic.

3

They organize and compose the elements on their moodboard to create a visual whole that supports their idea.

4

Students present their moodboard to the class or a group of students, explaining their choice of elements.

Didactic tips:

  • Optionally, give students a framework or a set of keywords to help them focus their moodboard.
  • The mood board can be used as a visual brainstorming method to concretize ideas at the beginning of a project.
  • Students can compare their moodboards and identify common features and differences in their visual expressions.
  • If students create their moodboards digitally, they can comment on and give feedback on each other’s boards online.
  • The moodboard can then be used as inspiration for further work with the topic, for example in a creative product or a written assignment.
  • This method is used, among other things, in activity XXX
Tags: Developing ideas, visualising, designing
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MODES OF ORGANISATION:

  • Individual
  • Pair
  • Group

TOOLS / MATERIALS:

  • Paper / cardboard

  • Images, color swatches, magazines, etc.

  • Glue and scissors

  • Optional: digital tools (e.g. Canva, Miro, Padlet)