During the first graphics class, the teachers gave us a noun to the half of the class and an adjective to the other half. I got the noun "found objects". I thought about how we collect objects and how a person is defined by the objects he owns. Depending on the like-phase in which we live, we decide to keep certain objects or get rid of others. Also, depending on our tastes, hobbies or jobs we tend to store and buy useful things for us (an arts student keeps his paintings). Later I focused on the look of a person because according to the things we wear we want to transmit something or show the public a different part of us. Today's society is moving fast. We don't stop to meet people and we are guided by the first impression. I'm not referring to looks, but to the style. Normally, a person's style defines his or her beliefs and principles. We like to dress according to what we think, be it through symbols or the way we dress clothes/jewels/shoes, etc. After all, when we decide the image we want to project outside of ourselves, we are building our identity. The first idea I had was a project in which two people with opposing ways of thinking sit in a chair facing each other naked. These people should come with a bag full of objects to represent them and exchange them. In this way, while interacting, they should remove an object from the bag.

Later, we met with another person who had an adjective. In my case, the phrase we got was "poetic found objects". For a moment we thought of playing with the literary figure of the oxymoron with everyday objects. The result was a series of satirical pictures on the use of common objects.

During the second graphics class we focus on prints. They gave us a letter to convey a message. We had to transform that letter in an abstract or literal way. At first I came up with a lot of literal ideas about how to convey a message with that letter. Later, I decided not to use any of these ideas and to use abstraction to transmit something with it. My idea was to fill out the whole sheet of patterns, but I didn't have time. Even so, the final result was an aesthetic transformation of the letter "o", to be used in a logo/poster. I found the workshop quite interesting, because unlike others, they provided us with new tools to make our creations and gave us the opportunity to try new techniques.

The third day consisted of transmitting a message from an image. After experimenting with different scenarios in which to place my word, I was interested in using an ironic but critical tone. The main idea was to use a lot of apparent "rubbish" that was out in the schoolyard. This pile was made up of chairs, pieces of wood, metal, cardboard. When I saw it, I thought about the amount of uses that could be given to those materials. Even so, instead of people looking at their possible use, when they need any material they go directly to the art store, I thought I'd study how the human being gives "value" to things. I thought about how many times the value of the objects that we have is not given to us but imposed on us. When you buy something, you don't question its value. The only measure that tells us what the value of that object is is price. But often, if not always, the price is manipulated by sellers to generate extraordinary profits. Also, certain marketing strategies make us consume, those strategies make us think that we are saving money when we are actually wasting it. My final idea was to put several sales signs in front of this pile of trash and then record people reacting to those offers.

The final outcome was an ironic photograph in which a person holds the signal of one pound in front of all that pile of objects, pretending that it is he who is giving value to things, even though they were originally meant to end up in the trash can.

 The exercise consisted on an ephemeral structure, a structure that could be positioned in a place and then be removed. I found it a good way to show the Architecture to a beginner. I studied Architecture for 2 years and I know more or less its foundations and how it works. At that time I was very interested in ephemeral Architecture.

 It seems to me that lately the function of the architect has been misinterpretated. Nowadays there is an overexploitation of the land because of the numerous constructions. Building is unnecessary, and there have been many advances in Architecture that demonstrate that certain actions on the ground can be avoided.

 Moreover, it has been shown that there can be different adaptations of the architecture to avoid such desertification. Today it is more necessary than ever that the architect focus on the impact he leaves on the environment. Society has to turn its perspective on Architecture, evolve, and realize that Architecture can be done without the need to damage and overexploit natural resources. The fact of putting a structure and then being able to remove it seemed to me a really interesting exercise. Besides, I am also really curious about the subject of the self-sufficient, recyclable constructions, and the portable installations. There are houses that recycle water and electricity.

 Furthermore, I am curious about social housing, and how land could be lend to people who have nowhere to live. How to provide a home that does not need any facilities (which supose a money saving) and that can be transported at any time.

 The structure I made is sculptural, completely ephemeral. A star figure with several quadrilaterals twisted that change shape if you look them from different perspectives. The feeling I want to convey with this space is connectivity. Architecture as a union of a society, as the core of all people. I was thinking a lot about the fact that a city defines the society that lives in it. I wanted to make a connected but somewhat twisted and convoluted figure to simulate the fact that a society, despite its diversity (of religions or ethnicities), has to mantein united to continue that coexistence in a city.

 The main purpose was to make a piece of jewelry that was related to social issues, specifically focused on the individual, and in the social conditions to which he submits without choosing them. That is the reason why I concentrated on everyday issues. Things we are supposed to do just because it is “common”, a destiny we are meant to live only because we are surrounded by certain social circumstances.

 I had several ideas. The first one was about pregnancy. I wanted to make a pregnant gut that a woman could hang in her shoulders. A gut made of steel, heavy, uncomfortable, hard to hold. This is the idea I had to simulate the fact that the woman in society is represented as a sexual entity, and at some point, as a reproductive entity. Also i wanted to simulate the retrograde idea that women have a duty to bring children into the world, and the idea that if they do not carry out that function, they will be incomplete. Moreover, I wanted to represent the judgment to which a woman is submitted if she does not want to have a child. Some people think that when two cells meet, the woman immediately has the duty to give birth to a life,to feed her and to be by her side.

 I thought about putting padlocks behind the woman's back. Padlocks which keys are not always women’s property. This is because the decisions that concerns their bodies are sometimes taken directly or indirectly by other people or circumstances.

 The second idea I had was the one I developed in class. It consists of a mechanism that devide into three parts. Each part has a function. The first has the function of covering the person's eyes, the second the function of opening the mouth and keeping it open, and the third the function of holding the spoon pretending that it is feeding the person. The main objective was to claim the fact that nowadays we feed ourselves without knowing the procedure and the process to which that food has been subjected. I wanted to represent how marketing in restaurants makes us consume food in a certain way, away from our real needs. As the only way we have to feed ourselves is to go to the supermarket and buy, unconsciously we become accomplices of the atrocities that are committed in the food industry.

 The third idea is how to graphically represent the importance of gesticular language. the project consists in placing ink utensils in someone's fingers, so that when moving and talking, they leave marks both in the environment and in the people and objects which they are interacting with. This shows the gesticular differences and similarities we all have depending on various factors, such as our genetics, our culture, or our personality.

 Brainstorming was a good way to bring our interests to the surface. I realized that the fact of having to represent the project in the body, made me want to relate it to the person, and the individual. How despite of our cultural, ideological, and emotional differences, there will always be issues that concern us all, as a group, as part of a whole.

 When they explained us the pathway, I thought about how interesting it could be to have the option of designing to the service of people, and about how designers provide society with objects that help perform daily actions. I like the way this type of design and the society are linked. A product designer orientates his designs towards people's benefits, as they have to take into account characteristics like confort, utility, secureness, etc.

 Nevertheless, certain images of the presentation made me think about the other face of the coin.

 Many times we depend of some objects because they make things easier. The problem comes when we don’t have that objects, and we don’t know how to do certain things without them. This cause a dependence in the person towards those auxiliar utensils. Ex: don’t knowing how to peel a potato with a knife and having to use a peeler.

 I found it problematic how some objects designed encourage consumption and lead to an accumulation of things that deep down we do not need.

 Even so, when they told us that the project would consist in the design of a chair,I changed my mind.

 A chair is a common element that we use in everyday circumstances. What I interpreted from the presentation was that there are different approaches of the concept of chair: the sculptural / artistic, the practical / functional and a combination of both.

 First, seeing the diverse ways of sitting down and of using the chair that people were having, and the poor postural hygene that they were adopting according to the use they where giving it, I realized that my idea was going to be based on the multifunctionality of the chair , without involving a sudden change of posture.

 My final outcome is a multifunctional chair that allows the realization of as many actions as possible, without falling into redundancy. An idea oriented to minimalism, and to the idea of trying to do without as many objects as posible.