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Fretless thoughts about the SI16 process

  • WORK IN PROJESS
  • Super nice project overall
  • How we take care of each other, it is something new for me in the context of a collective project
  • Attention to the group's pace was something really precious.
  • Exchange of knowledge
  • Self organized workshops, something we should do more and regularly!
  • Developing software that suits us
  • Check in moments
  • A lot of meetings
  • A lot of meetings
  • Communication is sometimes difficult
  • We should explore more the idea of building a shared glossary
  • Even if misunderstandings sometimes lead to surpising outcomes
  • Self directed project: nice but difficult
  • Like in the real world
  • Cristina: helped a lot during decision making
  • Cristina: super high quality contents and approaches
  • Manetta & Michael: constantly raising the level
  • Manetta & Michael: We arrived with some bold ideas and they replied with something even bolder
  • Manetta & Michael: Helped to continously questioning industry' standards
  • Manetta & Michael: Super stimulating to prototype something and then they showed how to do the same thing but with a more horizontal, accessible and inclusive approach
  • Really two great pedagogical tebgu 👹👺
  • Manetta & Michael: we need more prototyping hours, or organized differently. Once in a week is not really ideal. What about split in 2 days?
  • Steve: nice writing exercises they were super helpful
  • Not read enough tho, had time only while waiting the laundry at the wasseret
  • And that's a pity
  • So 2 are the cases: or more laundries or less practical things and more reading moments
  • It would be helpful to organize some shared reading moments maybe
  • Reading session with Erica and Mitsa at the beginning. Was nice we should do it regularly
  • During the exercise for writing the manifesto I had my headphones on listening to ? and at some point I was super focused writing and I heard at the same time the music and the silence in the room. It was really an ecstatic moment.
  • Clara's lecture was my fav: thank you
  • Angeliki and Wordmord were great
  • Danny was intresting
  • Simon was intresting but the timing of the lesson totaly wrong, really hard to focus right after lunch & the meeting
  • Aymeric pizza session was crucial to see how and why the API could have been a plural device
  • Really liked the iterative process of develop—share—adapt
  • the joy of digital DIY
  • Even if sometimes it hurt to redo everything (apparently) from scratch
  • the pain of digital DIY
  • Our API was something like an ecosystem: messy, exotic, vernacular
  • And im really happy about it
  • technology as a social and shared space
  • I worked with the most of us
  • But not with everyone
  • The right idea landed 10 days late
  • But it couldn't be otherwise I think
  • Ideas arrive always at the right moment, what we could do while waiting it's just setup the environment
  • Maybe it's easier to begin and adjust the direction meanwhile, rather than being stubborn on everything being clear and perfect from the start
  • It's true that choosing a format at the beginning could be helpful, but at the same time the ideal medium for something could not be chosen in advance
  • It's also true that constraining ourselves since the beginning it's stimulating
  • And helps to focus
  • I like how slowly we got all together to the idea of the API
  • Sometimes I was afraid of pushing things to much!
  • It was not easy to trust each other but really rewarding
  • Trusting each other in the process of work can also be a way to manage energies better
  • I like to rely on others for things I'm really not good at
  • But i found out is nice also for things I'm good at
  • Because in the end the result feels more shared, and with plural voices
  • Sharing expertise
  • Visual Identity outcomes were not really my thing at the beginning and I was panicking, because I'm super conditioned by visual outcomes.
  • But at the end I got to like the direction and I was super happy with the result.
  • (Even if I'm still not really sure about the text indent, doesn't it feel a bit messy in the website?)
  • We aimed super high
  • There were moments in which i felt to slow down everyone because of technical issues. Sorry
  • Technical issues always slow down the work
  • Actually this is a constant of working with technology, so not really a problem. More an epistemic thing. The borders of a project are its technical issues? Woa mr F. this is so dryyy have a break pls
  • Technical issues: prompt new perspective on how to do things
  • Setting up the infrastructure for the special issue at the end required a lot of time
  • I would have preferred to focus more on the actual contents
  • Because it is true that we worked with the politics of access to our materials etc
  • But at the end the most of materials were left out and this is a pity because they were super interesting things
  • We should state more clearly at the beginning how much we value the process and and the outcome
  • SI16 to me was super process—oriented, and I'm totally ok with that. I think we did something really great and in a great way (and im a super demanding picky 🅱itch that never settles for anything)
  • But maybe someone feels bad about the result not being polished or finished or full fletched, so for the sake of everyone we should think carefully at those two aspects
  • btw keep in mind that there is no such thing as a finished website
  • The fact that the school closes at 10 pm is super annoying