Cocept

During my final project, I wrestled with perseverance, especially in the deep phases of the work and in stillness. This manifested itself in various ways over the course of my project. I had to learn to believe in my concept, to grapple with the resonance of my relationship to the world, and to re-engage with every phase of the design process. When you are in the design process, perseverance can seem strange. You work with an open outcome, often without knowing exactly what the next step will look like. In sports, particularly in track and field, it is quite different. Perseverance in the design process consequently requires different abilities than perseverance in sport. The design process demands patience. You must take the necessary steps within the given time to achieve the desired result. Complex matters and problems call for their own solution. The design process itself is the recipe, without detours. And that simply takes time. This requires frustration tolerance. You must go through the steps, knowing that the process itself produces the result, without your ego suffering along the way. Ideas of life and death cannot be realized or simply do not work. They sound great, but they are of no use. This puts pressure on the designer, who exists in a relationship of resonance. He must measure reality and the real against his ideas, and measure his ideas against reality. The outcome is unknown. This moved me deeply during the design process. At the beginning, I had great difficulty picking up on my old concept. Continuing an existing series was hard. The concept was great, the images compelling in their clear visual language. Where should I pick up? Which change was the right one? I began at the level of text. I wrote a great deal. After several pages, I was no wiser than before. I was afraid to take photographs, but once I had overcome that fear, I had a good result after only a short time. Yet that confronted me with the next problem. I had great difficulty expanding my result into a series. After several attempts, I gave up. Was it my idea, the concept, or my reality that let me down? A new concept was supposed to save me. Things had to move forward, after all.

CHALLENGES AND LEARNING PROCESSES IN THE DESIGN PROCESS