A part of everybody's projects matter how big or small 

What is experimentation?

• The action or process of trying out new ideas, methods or activity
• Breaking with tradition (i'm just testing this out, im playing with this idea, ill just see what happens) 

Making is thinking - Richard Sennet The Craftsman

Making objects / processes you haven’t used before. 

Florence Shaw

• Trying untested ideas for the first time 
• Asking questions about making and trying to answer them 
• Trial and error 

Artists Florence draws inspo from: 

• Alexander Calder, little spider, sheet metal, steel wire, 1940 (intuitive working rather than mathematical) 
• Yayoi Kusama
• @submiddle sabu 

• Experimentation means leaving your comfort zone 
• Experimentation teaches you to be flexible and adapt to situations
• If you don't adapt people will lose interest
• open ended-ness

Q&A

Are you ever limited in you ability to experiment? E.g. client work, money

• Suggest things to clients, not just take what is given. 
• Do commercial work some of the time and then do experimentation projects as well. Think about how to balance them. 

How do you teach yourself to accept your mistakes and not seek perfection? 

• The more work you make then the more chill you will be about it
• It's something that comes with time
• Doesn’t have to be perfect but it could still be other things like cool, interesting, weird, ect. 
• Perfection is not something to aim for, aim for something else. 

How do you find you own style if you do a lot of experiments? 

• You find your own style by doing a lot of experiments 
• You find what  you like to do by experimenting, you get to know yourself better by doing it. 

Is there any logic when you experiment? Something to guide you to choose what to experiment with? 

• Color pallet, questions answering the question through experimentation.