Constellation PDP Reflection

Constellation from the beginning was something I didn’t completely understand and struggled with finding the relevance of it to my own practise and the work that I was doing in Subject at the time.I found it to be a large step from my previous education in college and due to the constant changing of lecturers, the substantial amount of information and ideas being shown to us,also the great amount of people in attendance of the lectures, while trying to get used to the new surroundings did make the environment quite uncomfortable and the prospect of trying to learn anything from them daunting. This is where blackboard became a vital learning tool enabling me the access to the information that was shown in the lectures equipping me with some of the information to grasp an understanding of the complex ideas being conveyed, although still wasn’t able to understand the relevance of a fair quantity. Therefore one thing that I feel was something I took from constellation was the ability to learn independently. A skill that can be transferred to any part of my learning process as I feel like it is a vital skill to be able to track down and source information and be able to self teach.The learning of this skill was also subsidised by the lecture about using the library which was one of the lectures that I did find informative in the first term that I found very useful and helped understand the library system that I wasn’t used to and how to source relevant information. Another lecture that I did find interesting and helped with completing other work for the year was the lecture with Cath, teaching the use of ‘Cath’s columns’ which I found an easy to understand technique when dealing with and analysing information which really helps when writing academic texts.
It was only towards the end of the first term that I got used to how everything was structured and began to embrace the information being given dealing that although I might not see it as useful at the moment it may become of relevance later on. A lecture which I feel could have been received much earlier on in the year was the study skills one because I would have found it of use to practise essay writing, refreshing how to reference and creating a bibliography instead of having it as one of the last.
The second term was of more interest to myself, learning about the different movements within Art especially ones that I didn’t know much about such as the Avant-garde. It was also was interesting to learn more about the ideas that movements had that have been influencing my work at the about such as Surrealism. Because in my Inside Outside project I am looking into inner emotions and thoughts that we all have as part of the human experience and how these can be expressed onto the outside world.But although I found the subject matter of interest I feel like sometimes the lectures themselves became quite confusing and got lost to what movement was being talked about or if what was spoken about to do with constructing movements within art at all. But again the information needed was also on blackboard with summary sheets provided as well it became manageable,with the information gained of great importance in supporting my on work to create coherent pieces of work that have taken full advantage of our historical art practices.