In this session we talked about how to broaden our mind with our topics and see how many things we could link into.
First of all we drew 10 things that related to the news today, I found this quite challenging in itself as I wasn't very up to date with the news.
After this we were asked to pick one image out of the 10 things we had drawn and draw 10 more things to do with social issues that surround that one image. My image I chose was an elderly person so from that I drew things that surrounded them socially (cold, loneliness, prejudice, war, immigration, pensions etc).
After this we were asked to pick something from our first ten images and something from our second ten images and together form an image that related to our theme.
Being as mine was technology I found it hard to make a connection (I chose scissors and a telephone) beyond cutting the telephone line.
Then we spoke about our images before drawing hats that represented each of the five topics that our essay could potentially be about (social, political, technological, historical, cultural). I found that quite fun to see how a few interlinked. Overall I found the exercise a little bit useful in helping me to link with other things in the essay but as I already had a essay question in mind it wasn't as helpful as it would be for someone who had not yet decided.
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