As part of contextualising both the methodology of my research and the practice this quote by Peter Downton, is useful in terms of remembering the basics of what is expected of the practice. Also, the importance of reflecting on previous practice and “The identification of themes…”

Peter Downton, ‘Reflections on reflective practices’, Design Research, RMIT University Press, 2003. p.126-7.

These candidates are practitioners who have a substantial body of work and an established trajectory of practice…

These candidates are expected to engage in reflection on the assembled evidence of of their achievements to date…They are encouraged to search for themes that have informed their practice…The identification of themes that have evolved usually clarifies for them a number of issues about the nature of their design activity and the practice knowledge evident in it. They begin to tell new stories about their work, new stories elaborate new patterns of inquiry.

As well as making the nature of their work rather clearer as a result of curation and reflection, participants in this program are expected to produce new work through which they find a means to summarise their position at this point and which facilitates ways for them to move forward in their practice. They are encouraged to produce a work of focused speculative power that can contribute to the knowledge of the field.