I realize that what peers from the second year said was right: it all started with an idea and some concept and during the year they change, better say they have transformed and little by little have taken a more specific shape, as my journey here at the MA course.
I started with my interest about puzzle and I ended up researching and exploring on movement, transformative and interaction using the media of kinetic sculpture.
During my journey, I learning better how to use the research journal / blog in order not only to keep record of everything about the project, but most important to reflect and also double-reflect and about its power. I have to admit I still have some difficulty doing reflective writing, but I discover that one of the issue that I have got is that I have a lot of thoughts and sometimes its difficult to write them down in an articulate way. This exercise of keeping a blog is really helpful to develop a fluidity of thinking and reflecting on the crucial step to take further. The first step was to keep record and then been able to look back, the second step has been write down on a notebook what I discover, what didn't work and consequently how to fix it after empiric tryings. This last step helped me to release some thoughts about the process, so that the following step has been write at the end of the day what I had changed and planned what I need to do the next day. The double-reflection (reflect on my notes written few days earlier) is still work in progress.
Having a record to look back at and an personal archive is more powerful of the remembers in mind, because it permitted to step out of the situation and have a more incisive consideration of what it had been done and how develop the own practice, what way to develop instead of others. After that it become more easy to consider what tolls and devices are needed to use or start learning as new platform. I always desired to learn Arduino, but only after I consider it fundamental for my research developing I push myself to engage with it. In addiction, setting mini project by myself in order to learning and training with different workshops helped me to make experience of new material or know their behaves deeply, as it was a objectives I designed for myself when I started the course. To have the opportunity of having access to workshops and machineries, such as laser cutting and 3D printing, is really important for me as I would like to develop my professional identity and tries to have less boundaries as possible. Research and reflective journal/blog and practice has really permitted my personal and professional development as methodologies, even if is still in progress. Next steps will be doing them more regularly and push myself to learn new skills, such as 3d printer, and been involved more in the contemporary context going to exhibition and been in direct contact with the sculptures regarding my project.
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