3. 27%
students live in parental home
(8% in 1984, NUS)
£9,000
annual cost of tuition fees
(undergraduate)
7
years to qualify as an architect
(UK)
Keith Tasker & Brooke
7. Well, it’s been an interesting exercise, if
sometimes for me a slow process (slow blog = a
slog?), but all things must end. Since starting this
blog about drumming in a band I’ve improved
individually as a drummer and, hopefully,
collaboratively as a team member. Together we’ve
written new songs, broadened our style, decided on a
new band name and had fun. I feel I know a little
more about teamwork, myself, the others in the band
and fellow community members from our reflective
blog.
When we set this task of reflective thinking through
a blog, using tags I was a little concerned in how I
would be able to achieve this task with not being in
a practice. However by just taking a step back and
perhaps looking at the tags from a different angle I
used my experience in life and the different work I
have done to respond. The success of completing this
diary has been an achievement with the added bonus
of learning/ hearing the views from other team
members also it has provided food for thought in the
future. The biggest sense of success and
achievement for me personally at work was an open
night in Blackburn, we had a presentation to the
blog:teamwork
8. …the issue of being aware and designing accordingly
to try and be sustainable is a very approachable
thing to do when designing and almost setting your
own individual boundaries….
blog:ethics….so we have a dilemma, we all ask ourselves should
fracking be allowed or not? Especially in this
current climate, where a lot of protest and
gathering are taking place to shut the idea down….
…my approach will probably form a synthesis between
what I believe and know to be right and the
utilitarian notion of that which will please the
majority of the people. Again I think everything
hangs in the application of balance to the scheme,
finding the correct combination of ingredients that
allow people to feel ownership and pride in where
they live, whilst keeping affordability and
adaptability to a maximum…..
…I feel one of the duties of an architect is to
resolve problems and not to present the means by
which problems arise…
