When working on the College’s presentations with my colleagues they immediately understood the value of transforming the org chart into a dynamic, networked motif but we still stumbled into many problems when I initially tried to visualize this move. What was interesting was observing the different expertise people brought to the critique of the work-in-progress.
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In developing the idea for my final project I realized that there were several things I wanted to incorporate. Reflecting upon my previous projects and their limitations I felt compelled to step outside of my comfortable practitioner-researcher mode. The imperative seemed that I needed to in many ways set up external forces that offered additional [...]
Okay so here is my first attempt at outlining my idea for my final PhD project. Written up for a New School audience it seeks to explain the relevance of the project for The New School community, specifically for Parsons. But this was part of the point with this project, to give it some applied [...]
Leaving RMIT and working in a different context has been interesting with respect to my impressions of the reflective practice model and what it might mean to be a good practitioner-researcher. I had my reservations before I left but then I came to a School with no real history of research and the expertise embedded [...]
Okay so it has been almost another six months since I last wrote - which suggests I was a little premature to suggest that when my son was only six months old I was ready to start thinking about other things. The only reason I can find time to think this weekend is because it [...]