Context

The context of the exchange between Fi Plummer and myself and the beginning of RSELF, has an interesting relationship with, and has taught me a lot about what is meant by, ‘research’. By employing a dilletant approach, I was hestitant to get stuck into research, and instead to employ a non-expert and almost casual approach…

Process Documentation

The bulk of the exchange with Fi took place in our conversations, which for the most part were through the use of technology. While our few face-to-face meetings up until now have been useful, it has also been good to have developed an informal yet productive rapport with each other on Facetime. However, my initial…

Context of Future Work / Planning

Though RSELF began very much as a practical collaboration between Fi and myself to explore DIY making personally, as the projects and pieces of work are created and developed in the future, RSELF will reach a point where it will be able to be shown publicly. This is, of course, an embedded aspect of the…

Bibliography and Consent Form

Linton, J. (2019). RSELF: A DIY Making Collaboration Moriaty, M. (2019). Creative Interactions Between Disciplines and Practitioners.   Consent form available here

Practical Research/Work-In-Progress: RSELF #1 – ZINE

Collected here are some of Fi's initial stages of testing out ideas for a zine. Here, Fi is playing around with a mixed-media collage visual style, as well as experimenting with composition of text on the page. Words we'd identified as being associated with DIY making such as 'vulnerable' and 'raw' are incorporated creatively alongside…

Practical Research/Work-In-Progress: RSELF#3/#1 – OUTFIT/ZINE

Fi did some photo research on deconstructing the 'DIY uniform' in relation to ideas of vulnerability we had discussed - relevant for RSELF #3 - OUTFIT The process of this photo research is intentionally clear - the handwritten annotations feel live and active, and give a sense of journey and discovery as different 'vulnerabilities' are…

PROGRESS-SO-FAR PRESENTATION

In Week 6 I presented a brief visual outline of our process so far in front of the cohort, Richard and Lindsey Chapman. Here is a (fairly) faithful reinterpretation of that presentation which I put together after the fact, with added personality where possible.

‘WHAT’S A COLLECTION?’

Cobbled together from our audio documentation, here is the moment when we finally stumbled across the 'eureka' of doing a multi-form collection. You can hear the cogs turning.

FINDING FI + INSTAGRAM CHAT

After chatting to Richard, I reached out to my friend Fi Plummer as a potential collaborator. I've known Fi for a couple of years - we would often see each other about at the Exchange and various other venues in Bristol, both being in the same DIY/punk 'scene', and we were on the same campus…

(NON)PROGRESS SO FAR

Coming up to our fourth week into creative interactions, I began to feel apprehensive about not having any headway into a potential collaboration. Over the past few weeks, I had sent emails to Social Sciences, History, Philosophy and Fashion departments in universities across Salford and Manchester, as a kind of ‘call-out’ to postgraduate students. I also reached out to…