My G.UTS exhibition was inspired by the reading “The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action” by Donald Schon. Centred around Schon’s second step of reflective Practice: Framing, I used this exhibition as a host for our class full of varying views, backgrounds and creative practices to come together, and ask two framing questions. Firstly, “what does this cohort of people think about the problem presented with the Wearable Cool Infuser?” and secondly, “what do they think about the proposed solution?” 

I developed two objectives that would allow me to use the G.UTS exhibition as a means to reframe my perspective. Firstly, I wanted to present my work as though it were an industry project, and the class were key stakeholders in its funding, and outcome. I treated this as a rehearsal for my final presentation with Health Collab later this year. Secondly, in order to ask people to criticise the solutions I have come to, the thought behind them, and what might be missing, I had to develop an activity. Schon’s theory emphasis’s constant reframing to gain a deeper, or different understanding of a problem. He describes this process as “learning your way to a solution”. My ‘G.UTS Exhibition Toolkit’ was a series of open ended questions that asked the class to respond to the physical prototypes in front of them. I gave the activity a certain start point, and wasn't sure where the results were going to end up. The G.UTS exhibition and activity was designed for me to gain a different perspective on the wearable cool infuser project in order to be able to reframe my perspective.