The individual (student, artist, designer) and the material. How to find your own material, able to represent values, interests, individual traits and future scenarios in personal expressions?
Perhaps the opinions of fellow students can help, perhaps intuitive surfing of the net and Chat GPT. Maybe there is a material that the majority of those around us associates us with? The term assignment was to choose one and devote all your attention to researching this material in order to arrive at techniques that would be unique to you.