Synthesis

 Reflection – Theory – Action

• Interested in the process as well as the final product, finding ways to develop, experiment and explore these issues.
• Setting out to comment, investigate something, to position yourself in someway, show your opinion
• You need to take what is out in the world, other artists, books and use them to position yourself and make your own statement
• This module should be a test to experiment and take the practice and work in a different manner
• To get an Honor's level degree, you have to evident the skills in other degrees.
• Five learning outcomes (-knowledge and understanding)
  - 4A1: Think about the contextual backgrounds and aesthetical considerations
• P: Political
  E: Economic
  S: Social
  T: Technological
• It is about making but in this module, think about what you do and how it is shaped by contextual means, how do my own attitudes impact on what I do.
• What do the materials, and advancements in technology and social media affect my work?
• Photography example by David Hoffman
• A documentation on the documenters, everyone has a good camera in their phones, becomes a historical documentation, the state uses the media to document and supposedly use to stop crimes, e.g. CCTV, cameras, forensic science etc, use it for social control and moral demonstrations.
• Cognitive Skills
  4B1: Think about the relationship between the theoretical and practical context in your discipline research, into reflection and making.
  4C1: Primary and Secondary Sources.
  4D1: Practical and theoretical research demonstrating awareness
• Informed engagement, taking a step back and thinking why are you doing what you are doing.
• Thought, thinking and philosophy behaviour critic of the world. Praxis sums up – turn into existence through making.
• Bringing theory and action together
  
• Practice is the centre of everything. We all have different thoughts and process that aids development.
• “For” – investigations you do in order to enable what you make
  “In through” – the act of doing, making work is not just done but a form of research
  “In front of” – Aim for audience
  “Behind” – Contextual background, meaning, morals
  
  
• Kolbs theory – experimental learning theory – having an idea on the word (Abstract conceptual) and researching into the process of the idea of which experimentation. This then leads to new experiences, finding a way of working that it deepens the though of your process and allows you to do what you love on a different level… Record and Evidence!