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Week 01
Week 02
Week 03

Written Responses

Week 01

For the first week, I spent most time realigning and refining the learnings my previous assignment as we transitioned into the Positions through Contextualising. I have attached the slides below!

I am still developing my draft bibliography, but it borrows from the previous list, plus some new additions that help contextualise the new directions.

The overall feedback and takeaway for this stage was:
– Focusing the line of enquiry by anchoring around the topic of ‘value’ manifested in 2d objects, and limiting the scope to ask deeper than broader questions
– Understand if ‘value’ can be translated ‘universally’ through something that’s really specific and esoteric like Pokémon cards – be able to articulate why the enquiry is about Pokemon cards, and not just currency itself.

Generally, other points I found helpful were:
– The enquiry should be set up with a strong foundation, and not a fragile, self-contained structure, as it could fall apart very easily.
– The project should help to inform or advance enquiry but should not perform or express it.

As we move into the next stage, this feedback was helpful for me to sort how to clean up and make my enquiry more specific and rooted.