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11.0 Appendix III: Practitioner 2 interview
1. Where did you see the call for PBB?
On the email.
2. Why did you apply for PBB?
The exhibition fit exactly what I was doing at that time.
3. What about the brief made you think your work was appropriate?
Just reading the general idea of the exhibition. The combination of technology,
art and design…that’s exactly what I was doing, or at least what I thought I was
doing… so reading it I thought ‘that fits perfectly’.
4. What did you expect to get out of the exhibition?
I’d been working for quite a while as a professional designer, but I hadn’t been
working on individual things, it was always related to companies, so this is one
of, if not the, first big object that I had come up with the brief myself and was
very personal to me as an interest. To be able to exhibit this first piece of work
was interesting for me to go through the process. I’ve done a lot of stuff before,
but it never was just my name, or my vision which I had to represent.
5. Who did you expect to be in the exhibition?
6. Was there someone you expected to be in the exhibition that
wasn’t?
From the brief, not specifically, I just expected certain people to participate with
similar interests. I didn’t expect any one in particular. Just to meet people who
did similar stuff or think about similar questions.
7. Was there anyone in the exhibition you were surprised by?
Not surprised, the range of the exhibition was wider than I thought, but that
probably had to do with me looking at it from my point of view and I thought
the fact that it was very wide was one of the good things about the exhibition.
When I first looked at the other projects I didn’t know where to position myself
within this range. I didn’t really feel it until I got to see all the work. In the
beginning things like the Grandma project, it felt like it was quite far in terms of
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