Annotation as Habit

- [x] I realised that note taking and then annotation was a habit / inclination that came about though my own personal inexperience and I know aware how it has become embedded almost integral in the way that I naturally progressed as a designer and pedagog.

- [x] This is visible in my current practice, pedagogy and more recently in the process of the PhD.

- [x] A habit I formed around the need to learn quickly

- [x] To teach myself about practice before I practiced or while I practiced

- [x] A way I make informed decisions quickly when I first started

- [x] It has become a way of processing information / practicing design

- [x] A process of immediate engagement with question / problem / complexity

- [x] Annotation I see almost as a kind of investment into a situation.

- [x] My practice began with drawing bathrooms, kitchens and bedrooms of friends and family in kind of quiet attempt at gaining professional practice experience, getting my first projects using academic work and literally borrowed a close friend's portfolio as a start.

- [x] By redrawing, tracing over the projects and annotating key features I gained more intimate understanding of this work that was not mine

- [x] Inexperience and in/experience (in the experience of) were defining conditions for this learned, sometimes excessive and varied use of annotation.

- [x] Inexperience - as a persistent condition in design

- [x] Urgency - as another persistent condition

- [x] In/experience / in the situation - constantly being in "deep-end" situations.

- [x] From my background of personal inexperience, i grew accustomed to being thrust into immediate situations and annotation became embedded in my practices as a default reaction.

- [x] Shift from an passive observer to an actor with some form of dynamic control over the situation and possibly the outcome