This week, I have been continuing to research and develop my self initiated project. Within this, I have decided to focus on burnout within teachers and creating a space where teachers don’t have to feel alone when going through it. This project has a heavy theme of mental health and draws heavily on my own personal experiences with this.
Previously before starting my MA, I have worked on a couple of projects that are based around the theme of mental health and mostly looking at how the negative side to mental health isn’t represented or talked about. So I am familiar with the theme and the tones that the work will possess. The concept for this should focus more on the community aspect and getting the recognition for the space. All of this can be found within my studio PDF
Evaluating the self-Initiated
The project itself is a deep connection to myself and really relies on my own personal experience with design and mental health. I think that in terms of what I wanted it to do, It has been successful. The idea was to find some form of project that would help ‘cure’ me and In a way it did. It allowed me to connect with the themes and the causes of my issues and find an outlet for my burnout. The concept itself is a little but diluted. I think that I spent a lot of time working on the self help aspects for myself and tried to link this to a teacher aspect, which has and hasn’t worked. It is about making people aware of the issues and making sure that people who are going through what I have, didn’t feel alone.
TUNE OF THE WEEK
LSJ DESIGNS 
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