During my intermittent break, I had the good fortune to attend a creative skills management bootcamp at Portsmouth University. After my diabolical business plan and misunderstanding of the brief for GDE730, the skills bootcamp clarified a lot for me and has helped me to refine and focus my thoughts. Part of the bootcamp was to assign me a mentor, whom I will be able to work with over the next few months. This not only helps me with my journey, but I am hopeful that I will also grow my contact list locally.
I had spoken to Ben about resubmitting part of the work, but he advised against it- still, after partaking in the bootcamp, I did rethink the artefact. I also had a good look at my business plan and my LinkedIn profile and tidied up my website.
Direct marketing outer packaging, inside is an unusual gift related to the institution I am approaching; for example, the British Museum would have the gift of a small bag of white marbles.
This links through to the front page of my website for continuity, and would also feature on any business card I may have printed.
Creating Curiosity & Smile – Naomi Baisley
Future Technologies
The bootcamp cohort had a tour around the Future Technologies building at Portsmouth University with its extensive Centre for Creative and Immersive XR Creative and Cultural Industries (CCIXR), which blew my mind. To find out that the facilities that could enable my designs to move from the speculative to the immersive are right on my doorstep is a highly exciting discovery; there is just the question of money and the cost of these technologies. However, I am hopeful that I can find a way in.
Future Technology Centre | University of Portsmouth
Theme for research
There are many superstitions still used in the UK today. From lucky rabbits’ feet and footballers urinating in the corners of a pitch before the game, lucky socks touching wood, bad luck coming in threes, the number 13, horseshoes, full moons, breaking mirrors.. a seemingly endless array of lucky charms and bad luck.
There is a huge scope of areas to investigate, and my initial thoughts turned to the superstitions related to animals and nature, from counting the magpies in the woods. Animals in superstitions are numerous and there are many stories to investigate, I am intrinsically drawn towards this as a starting point. But…
Thinking about the Portsmouth connection that I want to make for my future, I am debating whether to focus on superstitions at sea.
There are several reasons for this; I believe that I will find much to research in my locality- the boat museum and the shipwreck centre, both on the Isle of Wight, could be a good start for research, as could Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. The Royal Navy plus many merchant ships that visit the area- could be good for both historical research and hopefully allow me to obtain a contemporary viewpoint from the many people whose homes are at sea today. This could help define my audience within Portsmouth; many people in Portsmouth have connections with the sea, either themselves or through friends and relatives.
Ian McKellan reads “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge