Brief
This is a part of the preparatory assessment for module: DM3108 Negotiated Design Placement. Students must attend or demonstrate work/technical knowledge at 3 individual networking events. Networking is important within the industry, for learning via peers and industry professionals, and for making connections with the industry. The evidence needs to include photos of the event uploaded to this portfolio website.
Objectives
Networking events are a chance for groups of professionals to gather together and make connections. The purpose of those events is for people in an industry to grow their network. Making connections with other professionals is an important part of growing our careers. Knowing people in my field or industry could help me get job referrals or other opportunities. The first step toward meeting other professionals is attending networking events.
Networking Event 1
The ArchiMentors Summit 2021 was an online conference for young architects and designers which aims to inspire and educate through sharing journeys, experiences and expertise of speakers who have done it before created their ideal careers within the architecture and design industry.
Featuring expert speakers, incl.: Anthony Laney from Laney LA, Bob Borson from Life of an Architect, Sarah Sham from Essajees Atelier, Oliver Uszkurat from Learn Upstairs, Zean Macfarlane from Zean Macfarlane Studio, Joey Swerdlin from Morpholio Apps.
And covering topics like Portfolio Creation & Getting Hired Mastering Mental Health as an Architect Social Media & Digital Marketing Building Your Own Practice Digital Sketching Designing Floor Plans Architectural Visualizations.
Networking Event 2
This was a networking event by three digital marketing companies in Japan. Expert speakers showed us their own presentations including their careers and how they work. It showed that you need to put the work in to become a big and successful digital marketing worker. After the presentation, we could discuss digital marketing with participants and ask some questions to speakers. Discussing with experts helped me to gain more understanding of the digital marketing industry. Moreover, this event was useful for my research report because my dissertation topic is related to digital marketing using 3D visualization.
Networking Event 3
This was a networking event regarding digital media by international people. It was a more intimate and smaller event than others and a valuable event for connecting with other people around the world. At the end of the event, I had a presentation and talked about Japanese digital media.
Summary
I had taken part in three different types of networking events. It was lovely listening to people from all around the world, hearing different stories. These were inspirational experiences to see people from different backgrounds and to see how other people were influenced to enter the world of the digital design/architectural industry. Overall, three networking events that I participated in through Semester 1 were impacted on thinking about my career. As I will be based in Japan after graduating from University, I was choosing a Japanese networking event as one of the events. I think that was a good choice. In Semester 2, I would like to attend the bigger event and connect with more experts/professionals.
Yurie Shigemura 