Week 2

This second week has definitely been more helpful in terms of starting to get an understanding/feel for the project.

After Tuesday's class Hannah and I were able to identify that we were both interested in looking into working women as a group and how the stress of driving impacts them and we went away and each looked into a different age group. I looked at young professional women, and Hannah looked at working mums.

When we came together in class today and looked at our journey maps the discussion came up that I had identified the young professional women doesn't give us as many opportunities as the working mum and she also didn't reflect the issue of equality that kind of spurred our desire to look into females as a group so we decided that working mums was going to be our direction. From here we discussed how the shift of women moving into the workforce has been a great thing for female independence, but as well as having these new work responsibilities women are still expected to take care of the home - managing both her personal and professional life when there are not enough hours in the day, and not enough opportunities to enjoy personal time/hobbies.

The ability to do more has resulted in women having more to do!

A woman's work is never done.

We then formulated some questions that we'd like to chat to the mums in our lives about in order to better understand our audience.

I'm feeling much better about the project now that I feel a sense of direction.

In terms of the class structure though I am still frustrated at how the tutors seem to be on the same page but also not fully on the same page. Every time there is discussion they all add things on at the end of what the last person has said and it tends to really drag on!

I also felt that a comment made today that we had not done enough work was a little bit unfair as everyone in the class was probably in the same situation of not really understanding what was going on and it's not been until today that I feel I have direction and know what to be doing in my independent study hours for this studio.