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How can you translate your poetic reflections?

Make public your private personality

Balance how much you say

-Introduce the essence of the project. Don’t try to push it all to people. Lead and guide them. Trust yourself, and let the qualities of the object speak for itself. 

-Let the power of the project speak on its own without you explaining too much. 

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(Photos from Mid-terms)

It has been 3 months into department so far. As i look back, i start to piece up some of my year one feedback and my progress. One of the main feedback that stayed with me  Kiek going into 2nd year was from Kiek . She said my reflection was always poetic and inspiring but the translation was somehow not as impactful.

With Public Private module 1, during my mid terms my feedback was summarised as follow : Make public your private personality I actually always made a lot of reflection and thinking in my head, but i am not communicating and making them known. It somehow is similar to Kiek’s feedback. It was a very sharp feedback.   Post mid-terms , i discovered I really like textures. The uncertainty in controlling the outcome of it fascinates me because I always felt that as humans we always try to control. Resting in uncertainty is just something we don’t seem to do well, and i always believed in the beauty of uncertainty. Uncertainty teaches us and reminds us of the little that we know.( when sometimes we think we know it all). Also textures gives such tactility that i feel could make physical objects matter in a time where it is about dematerialising and technology.

Using texture becomes one of the key elements in my decision-making in what to do next for Nacho. I did metal textures and translated them into a “stool”. All along i have always been trying to find a conceptual layer to place it in my work without recognising that the layer was always there. 

My fascination with material , certain techniques is my reflection of how i see life. My work is a small reflection of me. That is my big mother of all concepts. 

For Nacho, what i wanted to make was furniture and communicate how we value objects is sometimes seen in how we value people. I reflected on how the values of mass production( i was formerly, industrial design trained) and a consumer driven-culture causes us to prize function and efficiency. Those qualities are somehow creeping into how we value people as well.  The scale of my work also comes from my reflection of how big doesn't necessarily mean impactful. In a world with many voices, we think we need to make things bigger to make our voice louder.  However, sometimes a whisper is all it takes.  We don’t necessarily need to make big stuff to make an impact, just as we don’t need to shout to be heard. 

With Ezter( Module 1 short assignment 2), I am mapping slow spaces in a fast place(think along the analogy of placing a stone in a stream of river). I am attracted to the topic because of how we are always so caught in a fast paced generation that i think we need to learn how to slow down, periods where they could anchor us. 

With Izabela Boloz + Jacqueline, i did my research on integrating displaced population. How can cities help integrate refugees, expats etc. I am so interested in this topic because i think we are all made in an equal worth. We are not defined by our colors, whether defined by nation, politics, sexuality, gender - no matter where we live or what passport we do or do not carry.We are all refugees in our own right. 

With my elective (Humanizing Technology), i am working with grasshopper. it is a 3d algorithm organic modelling software.  I am playing with these things called Perlin Noise and Voronoid algorithms, i am very fascinated with them because they are generated randomly but yet like what we see in nature. a reminder of how uncertainty can be beautiful as well. 

In Student Council, i learnt creating a lasting influence do not necessarily come in the things you do, but rather beyond them, how do you make people feel. People remember you not just and only for what you do but how you make them feel. Romantic relationships tells this point in its clearest. 

With this reflection, most of the thoughts with life have been in my head for years but i never could see a pattern in how they affected me as a designer. For the first time, looking at a wide perspective, i start to really understand why i do things the way i do. 

I start to believe in this: as a designer i don't wan’t to dream of changing the world, i just want to touch the world with how I am made. Changing the world is not my job, it is too complex for a finite mind on me alone. It needs other than people other than me and it belongs to a far greater superior being. Only He could do that. 

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Actually, all objects already have these layers embedded, but not visible. The phone you are using has embedded social issues — labour, exploitation, resources etcetera — but these objects are not talking about it. What we like in our work is to make that visible.

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This is my fascination with moulds and the unknown textures we could get from using cardboard as the medium to get a texture. I felt the same “opening a christmas present” feeling as i was doing this. 

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Working with textures felt really therapeutic, in some ways , it felt like this was what i enjoyed doing- The results of unveiling the latex texture from the mould always feels like opening a christmas present, it is always so unexpected. 

For me,  However i also start to be sensitive to the behaviour of latex, you can manipulate the transparency by either the mould or by the coatings. The mould has high and low points, the low points are like valleys where the latex would gather due to gravity and as it dries, it becomes thicker.  Roey gave us his assessment criteria. and I found it pretty inspiring. He isn’t grading us based on the our end result. But rather on our growth of how we move forward.

How challenging was it for us to make the leap of faith?

Where did you leap from?

How uncomfortable was the leap for me? 

These are powerful questions to ask in my design processes/decisions.What you are scare of and not confident to do, is the space where you could grow bigger than yourself. We often have to something that we are not ready to do for us to grow. 

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This for me was a step forward in terms of drawing. I have always had a technical background, i would say a refining process forward. The only form of sketching that i have in my head was always design sketching, but  this way of sketching for me meant it could more expressive and less definitive, it is more open to what it can be rather than communicating a defined idea which i was trained in. 

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