FAO CGAA Year 1: Unit 2 Space 2011/12 - Your Creative Partners Announced

See below - your creative partners for the duration of unit 2 are listed below - and look, 2 more recruits; introducing Ollie Fowls and Ernesta Baniulyte - all names below are linked to their respective blogs.  If, for whatever reason, you're not already following your partner's blog, you should use the hyperlink to do so now.

1. Nick B + Meg 
2. George + Chrissie + Mike 
3. Otis + Nat
4. Stitch + Joey 
5. Shayne  + Sammy 
6. Tom + Emma  + Ilmi
7. Simon  + Josh 
8. Lydia + Kadeem
9. Amrit + Anita 
10. Ernesta + Freddie + Ami 
11. Lloyd  + Magda
12. Jake M + Paris 
13. Steve S + Urvashi
14. Gabriel + Anthony
15. Ollie G + Jamie 
16. Anastos + Andrew 
17. Aaron + Callum
18. Jake C + Alicja P
19. Steve P + Mei + Oliver F
20. Ollie N + Alicja D

I couldn't help but notice a comment on one first year's blog in response to the creative partnership that said, 'we need to show we're talking to each other so we can pass this unit'. 

Talk about the missing the point!  

The 'point' of your creative partnership is that it offers you an ongoing opportunity for feedback, co-operation and support.  Rather like having a running mate in a marathon, it's having someone alongside you with whom to keep pace.  Importantly, working alongside someone new is getting you used to collaborative working - a fundamental characteristic of workflow in the creative industries, and something with which students traditionally struggle.  It seems that some of you prefer to work in your own little worlds, at your own pace - but those days are over. 

Many of you enjoyed successful partnerships during Unit 1, but there were other individuals who disappointed their respective partners by failing to communicate or connect. If that was you, snap out of it.  It is a requirement of the brief that you engage creatively with others - and of the world 'out there' too.

I look forward to some great partnerships.  Go introduce yourselves and get stuck in!