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I had a tutorial with Rosario today and discussed the conclusion I’d come to. She said that she didn’t think that my project was there and as I’d only managed to have two studio debates showed that it had pretty much failed. On top of that, debate and discussion already happens in the pub so where would my project be and what would do? What did I envision my show being? That kind of threw me, as although it was something I’d considered, I figured if I kept looking I’d find a way into the project.

Instead she suggested that I create tactics/techniques/objects to make people’s voices heard, stop interruptions and stop people being interrupted. I would start as myself, and then apply to others. So basically I need to come up with at least ten ways of people interrupting conversations or stopping other interrupting them and apply it to different contexts. Rosario mentioned Margaret Thatcher who changed her breathing techniques where she took a breath in the middle of the sentence rather than at the end so that when she was in Parliament nobody could interrupt her. It gives me a clear project and outcomes which is good, and it was an area I was dabbling in but it makes me feel pretty shit about myself as a designer right now.