1. assumed knowledge

5. reflective
practice

6. reflection
in action - (while doing
something)

7. reflection
on action (after you have done it)

8. ask yourself questions
lots and continuously

9. why do you make work?

10. what’s it for?

11. what do you want from your work?

12. what do you get from your work?

13. what is your work about?

14. who is your audience?

15. where does the work go?

16. build reference point(s)

17. art history
music
dance
connections
writing
general history
geography/place
contemporary practice
science

18. materials and process’s
understand what you work with
become an expert

19. defining practice

20. your making - contextual framework
social political
personal critical/ theoretical
historical geographical
institutional cultural

21. social context
Making and seeing art always takes
place in a social context. The way it is
seen and how it is seen are culturally
constructed.
Audience for work - who is
included/excluded/implicated on the
ways an image is produced, circulated
and consumed

22. your making - contextual framework

23. political context
Specific political issue
broad political issue
gender - race - ethnicity - sexual
orientation - class - disability - religion

24. your making - contextual framework

25. personal context
Biography - narrative of the self
particular issues - memories
What motivates/ drives you?
Your particular skills as an artist/
designer/writer/photographer
What strategies do you use when the
work is not going well?
How do you relate to the forces that in
part condition what you know and in
which you make things?

26. your making - contextual framework

27. critical/theoretical context
Does your work relate to particular
critical debates about contemporary art
and design practices?
Is your work informed by/engaging
with/contesting particular theoretical
frameworks/issues?

28. your making - contextual framework

29. historical context
Understand how/whether your practice
relates to a tradition, with a history
How knowledge relates to periods in
time.

30. your making - contextual framework

31. geographical context
Local, regional, national, international,
global.
Where do you make your work?
Do you make your work in relation to a
particular place?
studio home church city rural cyberspace

32. your making - contextual framework

33. institutional context
MA Course - Camberwell
Your educational background/experience
Your professional
background/experience
Your family background/experience

34. your making - contextual framework

35. cultural context
In it’s broadest sense - ‘a whole way of
life’ - this relates to all the other
categories.
More specifically, what works of artists,
designers, writers, filmmakers,
photographers, musicians are important
to you and your work - why?

36. your making - contextual framework

37. mapping your practice
Any other contexts worth considering?
Importance
Overlapping
change - evolution of practice

38. why find one?
vacuum moving forward
learning growing
position aspiration

41. HOW

42. reflective journal

43. what is a journal?

44. format
A4, 5, 6, 7, 8
pocket
phone
i pad

45. a journal is a place for...
Recording
thoughts, ideas, observations, things
Reflecting
to gain understanding
Analyzing
to further your learning
Concluding
setting out what you have thought
about

46. what’s in it - actual?
written notes
diagrams
drawings
sketches

47. what’s in it - ideas?
personal insight
observations
questions
speculation
the work of others

48. content
raw
un-thought-out observations
recorded close to the action
think police note book
reflection
stuff you have thought about
connections
notes on the unexpected

49. questions
what happened?
why did it happen?
what do I think about this?
what should I do as a result of this?
how do I do this?

50. how to use it
write often
note down dates and times
write freely - without hesitation
write down stuff even if its not relevant

51. Developing your
practice/project

52. what
what interests you?

53. what
what are your core ideas?

54. what
why? - consider the
evidence

55. why
why are you doing it?

56. what
what do you want to
achieve?
what are you going to do?

57. what
title

58. what
focus on the issues you
wish to pursue
identify your learning
needs

59. what
define the scope and
nature of the study
identify access and
resource issues

60. how
how are you going to
achieve -
• the learning outcomes of
the unit?
• your personal learning?

61. how
how does it relate to the
aims and assessment
criteria of the unit?

62. practical
timetable
what can you actually
do in the time you are
willing to give to the
course? – be honest

63. practical
how much time are you
going to give?

64. timetable
activity 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Research
Testing
Sampling
Final pieces
Creating
presentation
Presentation
Trip

65. practical
budget
how much are you willing
to spend ?

66. practical
ability
do you need to learn new
skills ?

67. content
be clear and precise
about what it is that
you are planning to do

68. content
think about what you
would like to study and
how this relates to
your practice

69. how
how do you achieve
success?

70. materials ambition -
what are you going
to do?
title
processes context
description of
what you are audience
interested in.
work of others what do you
want at the end?