There is no Essential Reading for this session, but you should try to find a short piece of writing by a designer, maker or practitioner of your choice. This might be a personal statement from their website or part of an interview about their work; it doesn’t matter what form it takes but you should bring this to the seminar as a way to start thinking about how you might reflect on your own practice.

 Questions for the seminar:

-       Has anything in the CP1 lectures and seminars got you thinking about your practice? What were these? How have they influenced your practice? (For example, did the lectures on making make you think differently about how you approach making in the studio? Or did the session on materials make you think about the materials that you use?)

-       Are there any existing (or historical) designers or makers who have inspired your own ideas or approaches in the studio? What did you find inspirational? How has this shaped your own working methods or outputs? (These might be people you have researched in your sketchbooks or practitioners introduced to you in taught sessions.)

-       Has what you are making or doing in the studio has changed from your preconceptions and expectations when you began your course. If so, what is different and how has it changed?

-       Where do you see your practice going in the future?