An Integrative Project

So this break hasn't quite been the renaissance I was hoping for my project, not exactly one of the more 'active blogs.'

Several times over break I'd tried coming back to my project to start working again and had found I just didn't have anything to say—not necessarily that there wasn't anything more to uncover—but rather that my mind was still numb from the process.

I think the question I'm still really stuck on is tone.

In many of my iterations, I'm looking at them now and it seems I'm trying to describe visually the group's actions (connection, overlap, people coming together to produce something new), but am leaving the motivation for the group ambiguous (progressive, forward-thinking, open).

It also seems like I've been trying to fight with the name itself, "The Roosevelt Institute." In my opinion, Roosevelt becomes increasingly meaningless over time as the generations in proximity to what he did pass on. In fact, Obama has maybe even replaced that identity for my generation.

I just finished the outline of the thesis of my draft, and these sorts of questions I see weighing heavily on it.