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Workshop Challenge

What skills do you have? What skills do you need?

The Task

Write a list of your skills and a list of skills / ways of working / thinking / or area of knowledge you wish to develop

Create a design which summarises a process model that works for you at the moment, highlighting the skills you have and the gaps you have.

This piece of work needs to communicate your process model. It could be a diagram, a 3D statement that clearly communicates a thought process relevant to you at this moment (how you deal with weaker skill gaps and how you maximise your talents), a statement, a model, a tool.

Upload to the ideas wall a link to your blog demonstrating further reflection.

The skills that I have:

• The ability to think conceptually.

• Accomplished in using hand-drawn techniques such as: Pencil-illustration, Pen and Ink, and water-colour painting, to explore the full spectrum of visual-communication.

• Adapt, at generating interesting and original ideas.

• Approaches a project with empathy and a willingness to learn and adapt.

• A thorough understanding of the nuanced aspects of the design-process.

• Attentive researcher and articulate in my presentation of findings and ideas.

• Well-read and tuned-in to the zeitgeist

• Possesses a broad knowledge of notable, cultural talking points that enables me to view a project in the relevant context.

• Versed in a rich selection of academic subjects, which often serves to inform and contribute to the design-development process.

• Willing to collaborate with others, and work outside of my profession in order to engage with new perspectives.

The skills that I need:

• The ability to refrain from veering off my decided course of action, in favour of continuing to explore my initial-ideas.

• To remain open to external contributions, and allow myself to continue to acquire knowledge.

• Endeavour to remain optimistic and humble in a society of increasing cruelty and injustice, to continue to resist the temptation to be complacent.

Design Development

In the course of exploring my process, I had decided to delve into the contents of several of my sketchbooks from the last few years. My use of a sketchbook had began many years ago and has continued throughout my life, in-part a diary, that serves as a refuge for my thoughts and ideas. A sketchbook can be many things, for me it is a safe-space in which to reflect on and explore the visual-world, that exists within my imagination. Through channelling those entities, I am able to give them life, and to delve deeper into a new world.