This week, instead of having a tutorial over video call with Nick, we were timetabled to have self-organised peer-review sessions.
The peer review session that I had was with the other three MArch2 students in Field Works studio – Faisal, Tony and Jay. We discussed our ideas for ways of presenting projects and shared with each other a few examples of graphic styles and types of drawing that we were thinking of using. One of the issues that we found to be shared between most of us was that we were all struggling a little with tackling the site as a whole, on a masterplan or infrastructural scale, and we discussed how we might go about dealing with this, agreeing that we needed to commit to something at this scale and then hone in on part of the site to go into greater detail.
Aside from design output, we also discussed how we were each dealing with the current strange circumstances of lockdown. It was reassuring to hear that it is not just me who has been struggling to adapt to working from home, and it is clear that everyone is finding it hard to replicate what they would normally be doing in studio or the library. I have definitely been finding it really hard to focus and work as effectively as normal, as up until the lockdown, I did 100% of my work either in the studio, workshop or library, using university computers for everything. I'm definitely glad that we had this peer-review call mainly for this feeling of solidarity, and I think it will be useful for all of us to keep up messaging each other over the coming weeks.
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