Identity

Passion & Ambition

The first thing that comes to mind when I think of myself is the push that gets me to work on my goals: the passion that I have for the things I do and the topics that interest me. Having focus on these things helps me put effort and motivation into the things I work on, and pulls me towards the professional I wish to become.
That's where ambition shows itself. I set high standards for myself, always thinking of what could make me be a better version of my previous self, and what dent I could make in the sphere of design and engineering with the competence I build and the projects I show.

Thinking & Feeling

Thinking and feeling are usually seen as quite opposite concepts. One based on objectivity: rationale, analyzing, and undisputed facts. The other more on subjectivity: personal emotions, visions, and empathy. To me they are connected. Each has their own contribution in what I do, though it is hard for me to separate them. I plan out steps and only follow them if I feel I'm taking the best course of action and am doing something that matters to me. I noticed that following the right thing and sticking to hard rationale can only take you so far. It is the feelings attached to it that bring color and make it something more than anyone could have imagined before.

Making perfect and technically strong photographs gets boring. It is the play, human touch, and imperfections that make still pictures breathe with life.

Opportunity & Exploration

Something that is consistent over my entire life is the search for new boundaries, perspectives, and opportunities. I love to challenge myself if it means I get to learn something new and explore parts of something I haven't ever seen before. There is a drive in me to find ways to express myself in unique combinations of skills and media, and see chances in the things most people frown at or get frustrated with. I enjoy practicing new skills, learning about new things, and applying them in the things I do.

Perfectionism & Overthinking

Perfectionism and overthinking are my core challenges in the creative work I do. I get many ideas but rarely act on them because I consider them to never be enough. Many opportunities I do see I end up not taking because I think about them to exhaustion and never put anything into action. And even if I take them and work on them, I have scrapped many projects purely because I didn't think they were good enough or because they lacked something to me. Usually when this happens I also lose the strong feelings attached to my projects like motivation, which ends up turning into a negative feedback loop of sorts. I like to think of these things as challenges rather than flaws, because I actively try to find ways to work with or around them. The best cure to overthinking is to just do it.

Vision

My future role as designer is to be at the front of new technologies, and help explore how we can use these new technologies in connections with traditional and older techniques to help science, people, and society as a whole move forward. I see my role as that of a fieldworker: taking samples, performing tests, documenting my findings and making sure it is well documented so other people can use it. For this, having a varied skillset of digital and traditional media and techniques is necessary, and helps me explore and get creative in ways that people haven't seen before. Making things from complete scratch also excites me, understanding every step along the way allows me to find my own insights and share them with the world.

I am a big supporter of the thought that knowledge should be publicly accessible for free and that open-source software and hardware that is repairable are the way forward. It is products and services that are friendly and helpful to the consumer that should be celebrated, and I wish to contribute to this by creating physical and digital designs that follow this idea: reverse-engineering, DIY, community-oriented, repairable, sustainable, and well documented for knowledge sharing. I want to create an open and future-proof knowledge hub from scratch where I share what I learn and find with anyone who wants to read it.

I believe in a post-consumerist future where people can build their own objects, get attached to them, and share knowledge freely.

I envision a future where people are empowered to be themselves, and foster a new kind of relation to the objects they buy and use by knowing their origin and being able to make adjustments & repair it indefinitely. Our job as creatives is to help people find that voice and help them understand the process. We shouldn't gatekeep creativity and production. We are masters at using it, and need to help other people use it too, whether through physical and digital literature, videos, photos, or teachings; which are all media I wish to explore more in my study and possible career beyond.

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