Week I

Written By Sara Clemm

First Ideas and Brainstorming

Are ideas flowing? Are we coming up with issues already?

This first week was all about starting to think about the ideas for the Major Project. Over Christmas, different topics came to mind in an effortless way. Curiosity throughout the days, and my predisposition to be open to subjects to research, helped me to find problems or issues in different and daily things. Questions triggered the Major Project button: how about that? Would that have potential? Isn’t that interesting?

Nevertheless, at the end of the break, I knew I wanted to point my brainstorming towards three topics: veganism, after endless Christmas dinner talks and debates about my diet choice; History of Art, since I have made a lot of projects in relation to it but none of them have that “Portfolio” material; and my hometown abandonment problem (a lot of commercial establishments are closing, youth is leaving the town…).

After starting the second term -I couldn’t attend some classes because I was coming back from Spain-, I feel motivated and willing to start a project that fully interests me. On Monday we had a chat with Fiona that proved quite helpful in terms of what we had to change this term to be able to keep up with the Major Project agenda. I definitely have to work on organization and time management, to make quicker decisions and not get blocks as much as I did in the previous term.

Brainstorming process with the three ideas.

I am inclined toward the topic of the History of Art, but I don’t know if I’m limiting myself with what I already feel comfortable with. I think the idea of the campaign for my hometown would have potential, but I don’t know if it’s material for months of research and a final project at uni. Finally, I love veganism and graphic activism, but there are already loads of existing projects and I would have to find a way to make mine different. In sum, I would enjoy exploring the three ideas, but each one of them has some setbacks.

 

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