Looking to the Future
After my FBP, I want to continue developing in a way that balances industry experience with community involvement. First, I want to work in a corporate or studio setting to gain professional experience, add industry projects to my portfolio and understand how design concepts move through real organisational structures. This responds to my need for more professional grounding, especially in communicating critical or situated design within commercial contexts.
Goals
I want to practice presenting concepts in corporate settings. I can explain my work in academic and reflective contexts, but I want to become more confident when presenting to clients, senior designers, manufacturers or stakeholders who may need a different language.
I want to stay involved in community-oriented projects and trainings, such as y-plan in Nicosia (n.d.) this September (Figure 1), and how the methods I learned about in academia are used in real civic, educational and social contexts.
I want to strengthen my software proficiency in context. I want to learn industry-relevant tools such as Blender, Rhino, Grasshopper, CREO and Adobe Substance through projects where they help me communicate form, CMF, materiality, parametric possibilities and production details more convincingly.
I want to start a GitHub or similar documentation platform for my data and computation-related social projects. This would make my coding, data visualisation and computational design skills more visible and accessible, while aligning with my belief in open and understandable knowledge.
These goals respond to my current weaknesses: gaining confidence in my portfolio diversity and corporate contexts, making my technical and computational skills more visible, and continuing community-centred practice beyond the safety of an academic project.
Figure 1. The y-plan project objectives (Y-PLAN, n.d.); I will hopefully be joining the 5-day youth camp in September 2026.
References
Y-PLAN. (n.d.). y-plan: Youth for Participatory and Localized Action in Neighborhoods. Y-Plan. Retrieved https://www.y-plan.eu/en/