Updated: 1 September 2024 > AP2 Submission
‘The Growth of a Poet’s Mind’ is a practice-led PhD in the third year of collaboration with The Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere. Primarily, the subject matter is time. More specifically, the focus is the mapping and communication of time, and developing a poetological approach to design which asks open ended questions about the vibrancy of relationships, memory, erasure, reinvention and the genealogies of knowledge making.
Using William Wordsworth’s autobiographical poem ‘The Prelude’ as a source material, the research is working on creating a portfolio of entangled aesthetic outcomes for investigating the anarchive as a creative methodology for surfacing temporal data in a literary collection. Additionally, in exploring the nature of the distinctly Wordsworthian concept of a ‘spot of time’ with both expert and non expert audiences, the project aims to foreground a particular quality of time and space and build a case study on the value of applying poetic, warm approaches to the communication of data.
This developing thesis lays out a framework for examining debates at the intersection of archival studies, Romantic literature, the philosophy of time and the speculative poetics of systems thinking and information design. Presented here as a sample of writing sketched in parts, it offers a pathway for thinking about the materiality of time and conscsiousness through practice, midway through the programme of research.
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