Tutor Notes Summary

Feedback from

Theresa (Uni Tutor)

Deadline & structure:

• Final hand-in: Friday 5th December (Week 11).
• I will submit 15 pages for this project and 30 in total for the module.

Focus areas:

• Refine your values and vision, what drives your design thinking?
• Revisit Ben’s questions: Who is it for? What purpose? What’s the point?
• Build your reputation through storytelling and objectives; your design should answer your main question.

Concept development:

• Be clear: is the kit about bringing home with you or creating a new home each time?
• Think about whether your concept leans more towards identity, comfort, or safety, or if it blends all three.
• The project could explore belonging and privacy through a pop-up home or portable identity system.
• It doesn’t have to be physical, it could exist as paper, a forum, or even an immersive AR experience.
• Explore an AR layer where travellers scan their bunk and project their version of “home.”
• Consider creating an online community or digital extension, what do people carry that defines them?
• The artefacts could include symbolic objects, like a patch travellers attach to clothing, a chosen symbol of identity.
• The project could be emotive and reflective, possibly positioning you as the subject. Think about what you took travelling, what you didn’t need, and what you missed.
• Remember: it should be practical but rooted in identity.

Feedback from 1:1 Tutor

Values:

• Define what you value in your practice.
• Do you design for sustainability, accessibility, community, or profit?
• Consider your stance on money, environment, and ethics, how do you want your work to reflect your principles?
• You could touch on confronting inequality, particularly in travel or accessibility.

Vision:

• What do you envision for your brand and audience?
• Are you trying to change something in design culture or how people think about travel and belonging?
• Where do you see yourself as a designer, remote, nomadic, or rooted in one place?

Identity & belongings:

• Reflect on what identity means in relation to the objects you carry.
• How does portability influence your sense of self?

Idea directions:

• Research AR in travel, could it be used to extend your project’s narrative?
• Explore how social media shapes identity while travelling, what’s real vs. what’s curated.
• Consider crossover potential with Project 2, which looks at how galleries present or hide context behind art.

Project 2 (Early Guidance)

• Investigate whether galleries should reveal hidden or political information about artists and their work.