Unfortunately due to family commitments back in Canberra I was absent from Friday’s studio. I was disappointed to miss out on the remaining presentations as I was interested to see how certain groups had progressed and upon catching up with Errol, it sounds like it was an interesting studio. However thankfully, aside from the presentations, little work was conducted in the way of preparing for project 3 meaning it was easy for me to catch back up.

Replacing the blog post discussing Friday’s studio, I decided to address the innovative sketching theories discussed by Eric Booth. The video posted displaying Eric Booth and his notions of innovative sketching identifies the rushed nature of problem solving in education and society in general. Refereed to as satisfying, often students are encouraged to accept the first solution to a problem, rather than to nurture brainstorming. This attitude restricts creative practice as a student is limited to the success of one idea. Instead, innovative sketching entails the student build upon each idea, brainstorming and creating excitement towards experimentation to generate multiple possible solutions to the problem. This has been proven to result in higher quality final work, let alone more enjoyment. Relating this to project 3, I am now more encouraged to have fun making sketches. Given the fact that only a small amount of the sketches will actually be presented, along with our topic’s their tight correlation with a hobby of mine (bmx riding) and the process suggested by Eric Booth, I am excited to go crazy making as many sketches as possible and just see what happens. This realisation really helped me to contextualise this studio in regards to reflectivity and see clearly, the focus of the projects as truely grounded by exploration and experimentation.