20- Skillsets and Design Approach

Top 3 Skills

Top 3 Digital skills- CAD, Photoshop, Indesign 

Top 3 Analogue skills- drawing,  

Top 3 Thinking skills- empathy, teamwork, creative, enthusiastic

Top 3 Communication skills- listening, empathy, teamwork  

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Emotional Design Theory- I'm an emotional person, I work with feeling which is reflected in my personality and my skillset as an artist who is intuitive to their emotions to respond to stimuli and respond to it accordingly 

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Design Process I follow

1- Mind map 

2- Pick the elements/ words that I feel are most crucial for a solid concept 

3- DRAW and DOODLE 

4- Connect and develop shapes and lines of the site including visualisations- BUILDING CONNECTIONS 

5- Feedback from lecturers and peers 

6- Develop further 

Then 5 and 6 repeat a few times before

7- Commit to design- with occasional feedback if required 

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What design theories direct your working methods? 

-Emotional design theory influences my design process. This stems from my artistic work where my art is ruled by my feelings and my emotional response, I'm not sure where the line is with my feelings intuition and knowledge though.  

-Sustainable design theory influences my work- I am conscious of using materials which have to potential for longevity, the potential of being reused and upcycled. 

-Climate mitigation- I am optimistic the work of landscape architects can address and give precedents to help the world become a better place, we have no choice. It's vocational and an empathetic response to the crisis we live in, we have a moral obligation which comes from a desire to be better and do better. 

-Seasonal celebration 

-Health interest approach-  ensuring the promotion of human health is seen through the lens of physical, mental, emotional, social, occupational and spiritual health