As part of the Open Lecture Series, a number of postgraduate students were asked to present work, to showcase some of the things being explored on masters programmes and PhDs at the moment. The idea was that this could be especially useful for final year undergraduate students, at this point when they may be starting to think ahead to what they wish to do beyond graduating. Joe Mills and I were asked by our tutor Nick to present our first semester work (DS1 and DS3 respectively) as a snapshot of what the Field Works studio is doing.
Poster for the event
A couple of things were good about this experience.
Firstly, it incentivised me to look back over the whole of last semester's work and think about how best to explain the core themes and motivations of my project to an audience who have no prior knowledge experience of the work that I am doing. Whilst pulling together the DS3 portfolio had forced me to do this to some extent, that was always being created in the knowledge that Nick would be talking the portfolio through to the other tutors who are less familiar with it, as he has seen it evolving week on week and has shaped that process himself.
Secondly, it was great to see the work that some of the other people at Leeds Beckett are working on. In particular, it was interesting for Joe and I to see Beatrice Freeman, one of the masters students on the landscape architecture course, present her work, as it is also sited on Pomona Island. I think that her presentation and ours complemented each other, as we had each discovered different things about the site that had piqued our interest and had therefore taken our projects in different directions. As my project is quite landscape-based, it is also good for me to see graphical methods of representation which landscape architecture students utilise to convey their ideas.
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