Hello to you who has happened into this space that is currently in its infancy. It is something that I have thought of doing for some time and is an evolution of my Morning Pages, thank you The Artist’s Way, and is a space where I can both share with the interweb my thoughts but also serve as a creative and academic outlet. It is my intention to hold myself accountable and put to digital ink the thoughts that I have floating around, inspirations from my weekly readings and hopefully evolve into a way for me to track the progress I make as I start my research journey.
My motivation to start this practice is fueled by two major reasons. The first is the struggle to find structure in a COVID-19 workplace and the second is that I am about to embark on my design PhD journey as a fellow within the DCODE Network. I am in the process of coping with the reality of understanding that there is so much to read and process but only so much time in a day to ‘consume’ this information. I also struggle with academic ADD and have the wonderful tendency of finding an unending row of rabbit holes to jump down. It doesn’t help that these rabbit holes tend to reveal themselves when I would be much better served going to sleep. So to summarize, I hope that by holding myself to a weekly post I can better document the explorations that I engage in and have a space where I enable myself to freely post the thoughts that I have that will inevitably inform and inspire my research.
And so it begins. This will be an evolving practice and it is my intention to let the process inform the form that it takes. However, I hope to cover a couple general points with each post. Each post will ideally have a general theme or red thread that it follows (I have a couple ideas on where to start things and I will outline them in my first post.)
See you on the other side!
L