Tag: Writing

  • Unit 5: What remains?

    Strongest memory from U5 – a moment from class that remains in your mind? What readings/materials had the biggest impact on you, do you remember best and why? (Either from the course reading or that you found yourself prompted by the course) Were there any moments that ‘caught’, where you felt friction, felt personally challenged…

  • U5 submission: Portfolio of Experimentation

    This is my second submission for unit 5, which represents a portfolio of experimentation. I decided to focus my experiments on pushing forward my writing practice – an area of my practice that I’ve not given much space on MAIP so far. I started with a very wide brief, but over the course of the…

  • U4: Wayfaring: Reflections on travel as learning

    U4: Wayfaring: Reflections on travel as learning

    For my REBEL project, I’m planning to reflect on my experience of travel and looking to understand it as learning gain, for me personally and in relation to my practice as a writer and communicator. I will be analysing how these experiences have shaped my ways of thinking, ways of being, and doing. And how…

  • 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,…