'Fail, fail again fail better and push yourself to fail'
This is what I got told in my PDP lesson and quite frankly I believe it. Looking back at what I have achieved through life is a series of failures to improve. Often, still I learn through my mistakes and I even encourage failure in my parenting, to jog my children's memory. Last week my son forgot to take his school bag to school, now I could have gone back for it but I let him fail and take the consequences is that bad parenting I don't think so. He will never forget his bag in the future.
This week we looked at lateral thinking.
Seeing old things in different ways.
For instance the Castle Museum has a stuffed animal exhibit, this was except-able in the passed and people didn't think to much about it, but now we we don't think its right and would never kill animals for a exhibition.
Remembering how we re-act to new information for the first time.
This week my daughter realised the connection with 'moving pictures' and the cinema she was amazed!!).
Les encouraged us to to look at our own practice in different ways.
How can I use this drawing/product/idea differently?
He quoted 'The threshold is not what you look at, its what you see'
Within our practice we need to gather knowledge from diverse sources and to look at trends. We then went on to pick a technique within our course and see how we could take this further out of the normal thinking, we picked sewing.This raised ideas of sewing body parts, using sewing for building housing, layering sewing to produce a thicker more durable product.
Next we looked at what we had modified recently to make something work better or used a different product in a different way. This was fun, Nell had made a weaving contraption out of items she had found on the beach, this consisted of a pully system, long pole and string. I had made a mud guard out of gaffa tape and also reinforced the dish washer with rip-ties.
This was a good fun lesson defiantly will encourage myself to think out side the box and see what hybrids I can produce in my practice when I am struggling for ideas in the future.
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