Hi guys! This is Vi, an international student vlogger from Italy and a student in Sustainable
Design MA at Kingston University.
My greatest experience in Kingston University was finding the amazing workshops that we
have in Kingston School of Art, in which you can actually realise every kind of idea you
could have within the the walls of the university. Being helped by some professionists using
huge machines and new techniques.
What I am actually missing right now of my time in Kingston University is being surrounded
by this kind of very international environment, in which you can always learn new things - not
just new English words - but new cultures from your classmates and their perspectives
about reality that is always really interesting.
One of the biggest challenges for me was to get used to the idea of the MA and of course,
another way of studying design - that is my subject. So just to get in contact with this
idea and learn as much as possible from it.
Well being an international student vlogger is really interesting as an experience and
you can live your life in a normal way, but in the meantime you know that you have another
purpose. So you are pushed to just check around you and have a look to the reality that surrounds
you in another way. Maybe sometimes in a more analytical way, just to try to understand
which could be the best post or best topic to speak about. So it's something that I really
appreciate and I would reccommend because it's not a big, big, big deal of time but
actually it's great experience.
One of the biggest lessons I learned this year is something about culture and how two
people from different countries can actually give to each other. So how a project considering
for example, the user, human beings in general should be thought of from different perspectives
and to understand if something is feasible or not in another country starting from the
culture, the people living in that country.
My plans for the future are actually a little bit uncertain in this moment after COVID-19.
I'm not sure but I would really like to look for a job or go on with an idea have to make
it into a startup. But you know, in this situation we don't know what will be the future, I just
know I'm ready right now!
From my perspective, Kingston uni helped me in a way that is according to me very English.
It really helped with this method in which even something artistical and creative such
as design could be analysed and made more complete. Also from the outcome perspective,
this is probably is how Kingston uni will help me in the future and prepare me to deal
with the future.
As always in my life, sometimes destiny takes control. I got there and I found out it was
the first uni in the UK for design and I was very happy to hear that. Also everything was
new, they built these amazing workshops and things like this. So in the end, really thinking
at the endpoint, I think that yes, it was the right choice, even though I didn't know
that!