{"id":1886,"date":"2022-09-12T02:50:40","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T02:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/?p=1886"},"modified":"2022-09-12T02:50:40","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T02:50:40","slug":"emergent-strategy-response-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/2022\/09\/12\/emergent-strategy-response-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Emergent Strategy Response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI often feel I am trapped inside someone else\u2019s imagination, and I must engage my own imagination in order to break free\u201d (18)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Q: Have you felt trapped inside of someone else&#8217;s imagination? How have you broken free?<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I think in responding to this, I have to consider if I actually have broken free. At the macro level, I think it&#8217;s safe to say that I have not. I feel very trapped inside the imagination of a capitalistic, materialistic, progress-for-progress&#8217;s sake culture. Despite lofty goals, I find it hard to break from the worn-in paths defined above. But if I have taken anything from this reading, it is that a macro-level reading of experience might not be the most fruitful place to start, so let&#8217;s look for some bright spots, shall we?<\/p>\n<p>Being an artist, maker, and designer is a break from some imaginations. Growing up, I knew that I was vocationally called to making things, but it was not clear how that would translate into a career path. It is probably a similar story for many such artists and designers (and peers in this program!), but the imagined state of &#8220;starving artist&#8221; is pervasive. I was lucky to have a network of support that trusted me as I learned to trust myself, fumbling forward through art, craftspersonship, and several other threads to my current home in the world of design.<\/p>\n<p>Other examples might be found in moments of change &#8212; moving to new cities, leaving jobs, leaving boyfriends. Deciding that something different is out there, and that &#8220;different&#8221; looked promising. I do want to spend more energy imagining futures that I want to see, for myself and for the world around me.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Small is good, small is all.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Change is constant. (Be like water.)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>There is always enough time for the right work.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>There is a conversation in the room that only these people at this moment can have. Find it.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Never a failure, always a lesson.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Trust the people. (If you trust the people, they become trustworthy.)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Move at the speed of trust. Focus on critical connections more than on critical mass &#8212; build the resilience by building the relationships.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Less prep, more presence.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>What you pay attention to grows.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Q: Do you find any of these principles more difficult to achieve than others in your own creative practice? How?<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I am heartened by the idea that &#8220;small is good, small is all.&#8221; I hesitate to call what I do a &#8220;creative practice,&#8221; even though I think that empirically that&#8217;s what it is. But the work that I do is sporadic, scattered, and simple. The things that I do feel small. Embracing &#8220;small&#8221; makes me feel as though I can do work that would fit into something I would call a practice. That it doesn&#8217;t have to be daunting, it doesn&#8217;t have to be complex, it just has to <em>be,<\/em> and hopefully be intentional. I am excited to focus on setting intention in order to catalyze small works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI often feel I am trapped inside someone else\u2019s imagination, and I must engage my own imagination in order to break free\u201d (18) Q: Have you felt trapped inside of someone else&#8217;s imagination? How have you broken free? I think in responding to this, I have to consider if I actually have broken free. At&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/2022\/09\/12\/emergent-strategy-response-3\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Emergent Strategy Response<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","neve_meta_content_width":70,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1887,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886\/revisions\/1887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/lowres\/critex-monika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}