As I expressed to Richard my concerns about having to do interventions, he stopped me immediately and said, “It’s not about doing interventions because it’s a mandatory thing; it’s about what you want to learn.”

It’s all about making intangible questions tangible.

Ahhh… that changed everything in my mind. We do interventions to learn more about our ideas. It might have been something evident but I managed to overlook it somehow.

Trying to reframe what I’ve been researching during the summer and the new conversations I’ve had with the experts I interviewed last week, I revisited my conclusions:

• People—at least the women I had contact with—do not have the language to speak about design. It’s clearly a privileged discipline. How can we give them a voice in this topic rather than having them feel intimidated? There is something to work with here.

I also had an important insight about “Flag the Gap.” I think I was holding on too tightly to my idea because it felt like something that could have so much impact or potential. But as Richard said, you’ve learned from it, and that’s perfect. It made me reflect on when I was in university and took some ceramics classes. The first lesson the teacher gave us was: never get attached to your ceramics; there’s a big chance that they are going to break. You invest a lot of hours into something, into your creation, but it can happen that while they’re in the oven, they break. Art is also about letting go. It was a hard thing to swallow because I still believe “Flag the Gap” has the power to become amazing. But at the moment, I need to experiment a little bit more, maybe with new topics and I feel ataching hardly to Flag the Gap is blinding me somehow. And who knows? Maybe Flag the gap will revive after.