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My reflective journal of thoughts and emotions I have felt during the unit 6 group project.

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My reflective journal of thoughts and emotions I have felt during the unit 6 group project.

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Week commencing the 24th of November.

During the first week of unit 6 I tried to process the information given rather than stress about the structure of the new unit. After reading the brief and understanding the time table for unit 6 I felt anxious about the lack of contact I would be receiving from interior design tutors which would be replaced by lectures from external people and tutors from other courses.

I tried to not over-whelm myself and I spoke to some of my friends on my course about how they were feeling about the new unit, to which they felt similar to me, making me feel less worried about it.

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Week commencing the 30th of November.

During the second week of unit 6 I made a start on watching the pre-recorded lectures which I found interesting to hear from different tutors across courses and designers who had different interests and skill sets and offered their advice on collaboration, community and other topics. I felt motivated to think deeper about what community means and what it means to me.

I had a 1:1 15-minute teams call with my tutor Matthew which I was looking forward to as I had not previously had any tutor contact within this unit. After speaking to Matthew, I felt excited to progress with the unit and a bit relieved that I had been given some support; however, I also felt overwhelmed and still quite confused about what is expected of me to do within this unit.

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Week commencing the 7th of December.

During the third week of unit 6 I felt quite stressed about the brief as I understood more that unit 6 is a very open and self-led project, which I have never done before so I tried to keep open-minded and focused on getting research done, finding case studies and generating ideas as well as communicating well with within my group.

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Week commencing the 14th of December.

During the fourth week of unit 6 I felt inspired to get a lot done. I decided that I want to focus on the theme of memorials and food and how the two combine within my personal project as an extension to our group project where our theme is food, which excited me as I felt I now have a direction within my work and will be able to start developing the project.

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Week commencing the 22nd of December.

During the fifth week of unit 6 I worked on my ‘Pecha Kucha’ developing my ideas, thinking about potential outcomes and continuing to research and record.

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Week commencing the 28th of December.

During the sixth week of unit 6 I have used this week to take time for myself for some meditation and self-care to prepare myself for the end of the Christmas holidays. I have refocused my thoughts and enabled myself to feel prepared and refreshed to start the new term and push myself and my work forward.

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Week commencing the 4th of January.

During the seventh week of unit 6 I have used this week to really gather and focus my thoughts and begin to organise my research so it is clear where I am at and what needs to be done. To do lists and the boards I use have helped with this. This week is the most motivated and positive I have felt throughout the entire project and I am ready to start the new year and new term focused and ambitious.

Although I have had mixed emotions and concern with the news of the third lockdown, I am positive that this is a great opportunity for me to completely focus and achieve within unit 6.

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Week commencing the 11th of January.

During the eighth week of unit 6 I have used this week to organise my work in my InDesign documents, get un finished work done and progress on my development work by thinking about what materials and software’s I want to use within my practical work. I decided model making with foam board and SketchUp will be my main materials for this unit.

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Week commencing the 18th of January.

During the nineth week of unit 6 I presented my personal project to my group where they gave me critical feedback to help me progress my project. I found this session useful as the members of my group were great at giving me constructive criticism which then made me realise, I actually felt a bit stuck with how I was going to progress my project and that I need to do more research and brainstorming.

I emailed Matthew explaining I felt a bit stuck for ideas so we had a call and discussed my theme which he felt confident with and helped me to generate some ideas to think about. This week was crucial in my development as I felt lost with where to progress the concept of a memorial to deciding that the space was going to be based around a table and to be a celebration of life rather than a traditional morbid funeral reception. I left the meeting feeling much better and eager to progress my project.

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Week commencing the 25th of January.

During the tenth week of unit 6 I had a 1:1 call with  Matthew where I showed him my unit 6 document and discussed my plan for my individual project outcome. He gave me some feedback and also told me to email for an EC as my grandad was quite unwell and I was worried it would impact my work. After our call I felt positive and started my outcome.

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Week commencing the 1st of February.

During the eleventh week of unit 6 I worked on finishing my outcome. My outcome consists of a series of renders which are to promote the celebration of the deceased person's life, rather than a morbid funeral reception. Each reception is designed specifically for the deceased person in a way which represents them by their hobbies or passions. I really enjoyed designing the series of renders and I was happy with my outcome.

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Week commencing the 8th of February.

During the final week of unit 6 I used this time to organise my pdf document, ensure I had included all of the information I wanted to and reflected on the unit 6 journey as a whole. Overall this unit has been extremely different to anything I have done before. I initially thought I was going to despise it however I have really enjoyed it; working both independently and with my group. It was a great experience and I think I have learnt a lot about my style of working and improved on my self-motivation and organisational skills.