Category: Unit 5

  • U5: Portfolio of experimentation – reflections on failure

    U5: Portfolio of experimentation – reflections on failure

    I have been reflecting on ideas of failure in relation to my portfolio of experimentation.  I spent a lot of last week in a deep state of failure. I was struggling to get to grips with what exactly my experiments had been about, and was worried that it had all been for nothing.  During this…

  • U5: A portfolio of experimentation in writing – starting point

    Following on from my thinking over the past two blogs, I’ve decided to use my portfolio of experimentation to set myself a series of writing-based experiments and challenges to push forward my practice.  I’m looking at my practice through an intercultural lens – examining how it is an intercultural practice in and of itself (translation,…

  • U5: First thoughts on Portfolio of Experimentation

    Our second task for Unit 5 is to create a Portfolio of Experimentation. The idea is to push our practice forward, expanding into unfamiliar and untested areas. The focus is on process and experimentation, not the final product. We should set ourselves a series of tasks, challenges and experimental activities, which we then try to…

  • Y2 Priorities – Portfolio of Experimentation, REBEL & Capstone project

    Y2 Priorities – Portfolio of Experimentation, REBEL & Capstone project

    I’ve spent the past week with an old friend from the UK, who was visiting me here in Mexico. We’ve known each other since we were about 3 years old, but I don’t think we’ve ever spent such a concentrated period of time together. Inevitably, we ended up talking a lot about our lives, our…

  • U5 submission: Body of Chronicles

    This is my first submission for unit 5, in response to the brief to create a Body of Chronicles, which tells the story of our cohort’s becoming over our first year. My submission takes the form of an interactive workbook, which aims to explore the complexity of representing individual and collective (and subjective-objective) experience simultaneously.…

  • U5: First thoughts on Body of Chronicles

    An overview of the brief For the first part of unit 5, we’ll be consolidating our experience of MAIP year 1 through a ‘Body of Chronicles’. It will consider The chronicles should tell the story of the cohort’s becoming as it unfolded through time, from our perspective and taking into account our positionality. The telling…