Failure (noun):
- lack of success;
- something not done;
- something not working, or stopping working as well as it should.
Failure is hard to face, and not much people are able to admit or recognise it because it seems to happen when something doesn’t go has planned, with a negative connotation. However, only facing it allows us to discover all the good opportunities that it can bring and develop, also from an apparently simple task. For example, it can be interpreted as a challenge: understand where we failed and try again, where a technique or an abject failed and analyse it deeply until we find out how to fix it.
Failure opens to us an unexpected world we couldn’t imagine and lead us to situations we didn’t take in consideration before.
The important thing to do after a failure happen is to understand what didn’t go as expected, so learn as much as possible from it, and transform the negative connotation to positive, pushing us to pull something interesting from it.
Practice that represented failure to me was when I tried to make the frame of a cube with material I am not familiar with: bamboo sticks and UHU glue. The section of the bamboo sticks was rectangular and the glue that I have used to assemble them didn’t behave as I expected. It isn’t dry fast enough to keep a precise figure.
But what happened turned into the point of strength of the experiment because allow the cube’s frame to keep moving and collapse in an unplanned shape.
Knowledge and skills gained by practise gave me the chance to use this technique in order to get a variety of shapes.
--> KNOWLEDGE FROM FAILURE
This failure reminds me that between thinking and the reality there is a gap, which can be fill only with practise.
Our relationship with failure can be interpreted in different ways:
each student brought an example which concerns with the own experiences.
Notes from discussion in class:
- it can be deliberately random
- it can happen at the end of the work -> no opportunity to go on
not determining: what intention - just a process --> REFORM THE INTENTION
- Munari's thoughts
- object finished then failure
- simplicity -> more opportunity
- bond to tradition can provide failure
- chasing perfection is a failure itself because we are human (not perfect)
- you need to have failure in a game, otherwise you don't enjoy the win
-> gives motivation
-> fail: you feel optimism or pessimism
- nature and behave of a material give different results -> failure on what expected
- object unfinished: is it a failure?
Re-organization on the wall in categories:
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