Week Twenty-Nine Reflections
This week challenged me to navigate a wide range of responsibilities from working with children to managing design tasks and personal commissions each requiring a unique approach but all demanding adaptability, time management, and perseverance. Balancing these roles meant constantly shifting gears: practising empathy with children of different ages and backgrounds, staying creative and focused on design deliverables, and finding the energy to complete handmade chalkboard commissions that required both care and precision. It wasn’t easy, and at times it was socially exhausting, but the joy and appreciation from those I was creating for made it deeply worthwhile. This experience reminded me not only of the emotional labour behind human-centred design, but also of the time, value, and craftsmanship involved in handmade work leaving me with a renewed sense of purpose and gratitude for the opportunity to keep expanding my creative practice.