Reporting

Reflecting upon project 2, I felt rushed toward the end of it and I have noticed that Errol and I spent too much time caught up in the brainstorming and planning process, worrying about the quality of our ideas. This over complicated the project resulting in it taking up more time and being less experimental. This is strongly relevant because the basis of this studio is exploration and experimentation. Therefore in my opinion we should have been less concerned by quality and more eager to experiment as much as possible which can be reflected on later in relation to the concept statement and studio prompt.

Relating

I have noticed issues similar to this in the way that I approach a lot of assessment tasks. In an effort to achieve good results, I find myself slowly working through the planning process to an extent of detail which is unnecessary, or at least too time consuming and unfocused. The conditions among university assessment is often the same, however I have developed knowledge throughout my studies which improve my ability to handle this issue. Naturally I still find myself stuck in the planning process to a certain extent, although it’s consistency and impact is reducing.

Reasoning

Factors underlying this issues mainly point towards my hesitation to spontaneously create and experiment. Using Eric Booth’s innovative sketching as a point for reflection, it is now clear that relieving pressure from the planning process and instead encouraging experimentation and constant redevelopment of ideas is what produces the best results.

Reconstructing

This demonstrates that in future, when in the brainstorming phase of any particular issues, it is important to identify a simple starting point and explore the many possibilities that arise from the process of experimentation. Evidence of this issue recurring again is visible in our planning for project 3 but I am now more equip to deal with the issue. To indicate my improvement, many of our sketches for project 3 are simple ideas that do not strongly relate to the concept statement as it stands and instead are used as an exploration to see where it takes us. In regards to project 3, it would be useful to create a large variety of sketches / notions and then rework particular ideas in order to develop a potentially stronger idea at the end of the innovative sketching exercise.