Pre-task
Prior to the first session, students were asked to consider an aspect of their own identity and to find an image (ideally typographic/lettering) that represents this.
These were brought to the first session and students uploaded to a Padlet that I had created to document the intervention.
This had the added advantage of becoming a communal resource for students throughout the five-week teaching block.
Examples of sources of identity images that students brought in
Images that students brought in ranged from art and design references, to family heritage, non-latin language systems, images of nature and ecology, indigenous knowledge, music and pop culture.