Trying things. Selecting and experimenting with appropriate media, materials, techniques, and processes. Iterating — keeping what works, abandoning what doesn’t, learning from both. The discipline of making as a way of thinking. Demonstrating range and judgement in material choice.
Tested by
- Edexcel IGCSE Art and Design AO2 — refine work by exploring ideas, selecting and experimenting with appropriate media, materials, techniques and processes (25%)
- AQA GCSE Art and Design AO2 — refine work by exploring ideas, selecting and experimenting with appropriate media, materials, techniques and processes (25%)
Suggested evidence types
- Material experiments (e.g. “three different ways of representing the same subject”)
- Process annotation — what was tried, what worked, what didn’t, what was learned
- Iteration sequences (early draft → refined version → final work)
- Photo logs of physical making process