#closingthoughts

[toomanyf4ndoms7]

Chapter titles for my Batgirl of Burnside/New 52 Batgirl part two review.

Part One: #Bravenewworld

Part two: Positives: #BatgirlFTW

Part three: Negatives: #Burnsideblues

Part four: #Notmybabs

Part five: #Closingthoughts

[kentvancil3]

Tuesday’s closing thought. #closingstatement #closingthoughts #outerlimits https://www.instagram.com/p/B-smG8Djane/?igshid=s5sdl7cl2m5o

[beingthelightinthedarkness]

#ICelebrateTheDay #RelientK #ClosingThoughts #Christmas2017

[thethrilllofitalll]

Make A Project Of It

AKA Closing Thoughts

I set out with the intention to explore creativity and happiness, creating a slice of time whilst I did so. 

As someone who generally works in collectives and big teams, to make a project completely on my own, during lockdown and in a global pandemic, I wanted it to be something gentle. Something I would enjoy doing, that I could use to inform my everyday life, or be informed by it. Basically something to inspire me to look after myself. Reading the previous post made me realise how “classic me” it is that I had to create a project for myself (work) in order to reliably stick to it. 

I’ve not successfully kept a diary since I was a teenager, and with all the talk of “unprecedented” and “strange and uncertain times” I thought this was a nice opportunity to document things.

I’ve always photographed things obsessively, desperately trying to remember the details. I wanted to be more reflected in my presentation of time, and to challenge myself within that. Whether that be the angle (creative, emotional or otherwise), the consistency, the content (if creative) or the writing itself, (I haven’t written anything but marketing copy consistently in years). I wanted to explore a sense of my voice, not putting too much pressure on myself to recreate or mould in a certain way, but also not just flinging things out in the same way I do on social media. A sense of curation and a little bit of tweaking.

I’m normally so busy running round like a headless chicken that I don’t get to explore or develop my practice or creative skill sets at all. I didn’t think it was the correct time to teach myself a whole new skill, but instead wanted to try and combat my fear of trying new things or presenting ideas. I tried to prevent perfectionism creeping in by making the project durational- lots of things and more about consistency out output rather than showstoppers- and creating boundaries. For example I didn’t work on anything for more than a half day. I tried to get comfortable with learning something and accepting that when you’re learning something it’s not going to be incredibly high quality. 

It’s been such a weird time, but also in many ways a golden one. I’m fortunate enough to have been able to embrace the opportunity to live at a much slower pace. To invest time in really looking after myself. I have had the capacity to reflect on what brings me joy and more time to invest in it. To sit with yourself and actually observe how you feel from day to day, how you respond to things without the hecticness of life and the usual distractions, isn’t necessarily always comfortable, but it’s definitely been interesting. 

Strangely, (as a forward planner), after the initial panic and heartbreak of going into lockdown, I found the inability to plan strangely liberating. We were sort of forced into a perpetual present. Which was bewildering, but then sort of nice! I have always struggled with the push and pull between past and present. Trying to strike a balance between reflection and appreciation and melancholy, panic or longing when continually dating your head to looking behind you and ahead of you at the same time. Lockdown enabled me to be truly present in my everyday life for the most sustained periods of my life. Staying in the present and practicing gratitude beyond those moments of joy and wonder, maintaining that sense of stillness and assuredness amongst the more mundane. 

I was lucky to have perhaps the best quaranteam anyone could wish for and I am so grateful. Living with my boyfriend and my two housemates, (two of my best friends) is honestly the most healthy and stable household I have ever been a part of. Individually and collectively, they taught me so much about patience, honesty, vulnerability. Of creativity, consistency and finding the fun. We created a home environment to be proud of and we did so together- a community, a collaboration. We turned everything into an adventure, a concept, an occasion, a routine, a ritual. There is a LOT to be said for organised fun and the creation of new traditions when creating a community and bonding as a new family unit. 

For 15 glorious weeks I am so lucky to have felt happy, relaxed, loved, supported and truly seen. To come completely as you are and be accepted, truly is a rare and beautiful thing. There have been so many wonderful moments and memories that I will treasure forever, but what’s most striking is when I look beyond the zoomed in moments and more as a slice of time. It’s a rollercoaster that we turned into an adventure. Somehow a globally anxious and strange time became a golden time too. We really did find the thrill of it all. And I am so, so grateful. 

[duniatojannah]

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[historyhiphop-blog]

Closing thoughts

I wasn’t quite sure what to expect going into a class focused on the history of Hip Hop. That was probably a good bit due to my own musical background. Not counting a few outlier cases, I’ve never been one to listen to anything remotely close to Hip Hop. That’s never been out of some deep-seated animosity; I just never took the time to explore the genre.

Thanks to this course, though, that discovery process was facilitated in a very comprehensive way. In reality, I can hardly think of a better way (for me, at least) to be truly introduced into the world of Hip Hop than this kind of historically-grounded survey. Music is more than just a hodgepodge of sounds, and this class helped me to really understand and appreciate the context that surrounds the world of Hip Hop culture.

Will I now convert to listening to Hip Hop full time? Definitely not. And, if I’m being honest, I’m not sure if my music listening habits will change much at all following this term. That’s more a reflection on my own allegiance to the familiar than a judgment on how the course “sold” Hip Hop. What I will always have, though, is that little bit of understanding. A grasp, even if slight, on the hows and whys of this genre previously so foreign to me.

That, I’d say, is a pretty cool outcome for a semester.

[morganlisette]

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☝🏻mood today and always: #internationalwomensday #closingthoughts (at Weehawken, New Jersey)

[frederikhojlund]

Closing Thoughts on Learnings From This Course

Following Donald A. Schön’s ideas of the reflective practitioner this course has emphasized the value of sketching and prototyping. Schön describes design practice as a conversation with the materials of the design situation (Schön, 1992). Here the designer performs certain moves and “listens” for the situation’s reaction. From that he adjusts his understanding of the situation and thereby the design, he is creating. This is a process of reflection- and knowing-in-action. When engaging with this conversation prototyping and sketching are very important design moves, which allow the designer to explore, affect and understand the design situation. Inquiry of the design situation can be done through prototyping and sketching. Therefore this is not tools that only belong to the final stages of the process.

This course has given me a better understanding of Schön’s processual concept and most importantly, how it applies to practice. It is not just a matter of making and refining prototypes. Design is about being able to articulate the arguments behind design decisions and understand the results of a prototype put into test. In the context of interaction this requires an understanding of the different aspects, attributes and relations, that constitute interaction. Here I have been introduced to different vocabularies and frameworks for approaching and articulating specific interaction attributes.

Compared to other design courses, that I have followed, this course has focused on the practical aspects of interaction design. I have obtained competencies within three areas: Processual experience, articulation of concepts and technical skills.

References:

Schön, Donald A. (1992): “Designing as reflective conversation with the materials of a design situation.” Research in Engineering Design 3.3: 131-147.

[offbeatthoughprocess-blog]

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"You make all things work togeher for my good."

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