So today was our final day with D&AD Graduate Academy, so the mood was a little bit sombre at the start of the day. The programme today was very fitting, 25 days ago we all came together as strangers and were introduced to Darius and Andrew from the Spring Project, we did not realise how powerful the Spring Project would be.. to be honest, the first session with the Spring Project made me feel quite weird, as there were a lot of long silences and "deep" conversations; but 25 days later we found prolonged silences comfortable and "deep" conversations easy to get into. So as our final GradAcad brief and also as a thank you to Darius and Andrew, we worked in groups to come up with concepts which would encourage people to go on Spring Project programmes.
We pitched back our ideas, they were all great an really unique. I was pretty impressed with the concepts we generated within the space of 45minutes, it has really proved how much we have developed as a group within the past month.
On our first day, which was also our first day with the Spring Project, we had to go out in small teams and do creative acts of kindness.. that was great fun and a little bit challenging. Today we all formed one big team and went out together to do a big creative act of kindness, this was to find out the name of one person and to have all of us say "Hello *insert name" to them.. this was great fun and I loved the reactions of the people we interacted with. I recorded interviews with the people after they had all the hello's said to them, so I shall edit them and post them up a little bit later on!
So, a massive thank you to Darius and Andrew for laying on an amazing Spring Project programme for us, I never realised how much I could learn from them... it was a great experience!
Most of us went out for a Vietnemese meal at the end of the day, it was great just chilling with everyone at the end of the Graduate Academy. We have all gelled so well together, we came from a really wide range of disciplines and formed a strong collaborative group. Not going to lie, I will miss these guys, but I'd like to think that we will see each other again and work together in the future!
It's been a great journey, thank you Kati & Lottie and all the sponsors and agencies.
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