I have to tie all my year’s worth of investigations through two book club discussions, or within three books. The methodology of work attempted is distinct from project-based drawing processes architectural research is very much dependent on. Closed projects have tentative limits set by available resources, while open projects are incrementally developed and indexed in time. Rather than having a definite work plan or project outline daily sentences, or daily note-taking suggests the compilation of ideas collected daily into projects. What is always produced is an index of ideas irrespective of their form. Drawing projects are predominantly performed within limits. It could be either of site, time, or any other quantifiable resource. The roam subscription closes after a year in February, so, therefore, the necessity to compile indexes. I would start from December '20 for that, to analyze or record the work done while trying to build a public zettelkasten. The premise that roam built was folders are outdated and linking thoughts on its platform have been replicated by everyone. But what roam build is a conversation about tools, theories, and systems of thought. Without consolidating a theory of thinking, you cannot build a system for it and therefore will be unable to select appropriate tools for the task. So my attempt is to define how a writing practice for a design research practice should be assembled to produce knowledge. What roam helped identify is research according to them mostly produces two types of content daily reflections and research papers. Those are the limits, between the two you could have blog posts, to large essays of say 25,000 words. But that is it. Books are tricky. Especially the picture books that we need to make. There is a glossary, a set of theories and systems to analyze, import notes, and consolidate the form of a system to think out a stream of investigations, ideally daily.
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