User:Kiara/First Assessment

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Having fun with the wiki

Discovering the wiki was a journey.
I had edited a wiki page once, and not a meaningless one: the Hypercard wiki page!
Still, that did not get me familiar with the wiki syntax and language. I never was the writing type - except when it is for research/analysis/academic purposes, I have big troubles with writing. I never do it properly but I do enjoy documenting.
The thing is, I am pretty much convinced I have some form of attention disorder. As a child I was always the daydreaming kid, the one that takes ages to copy what's on the blackboard and is always far from what's happening on Earth. It didn't really go away, I just learned to deal with it I guess, put a mask, a coping mechanism. As a matter of fact I am already entering a side quest with this...
Anyways, back on track, writing is not my forte. So I have troubles with keeping the wiki content updated, BUT I really have fun editing.
I like conveying some emotion through styling, and the fact that the wiki allows inline CSS is giving me the best of times. Here are some examples:

Funnily enough, I hold quite a few pages in this wiki. I tend to put a lot of information in there, the pace is really off though. Writing this precise page is also making me struggle. Is this relevant?
Besides my struggle with writing, I also struggle with preparing presentations. I am trying now, but probably I'll improvise and forget to say a lot of things, as usual...

This all very overwhelming.


An outline to keep track?


  • Side projects
    • The pad of Pads that then gave birth to the XPUB 2024-2026 Survival Guide
    • SER documentation
    • Journal
    • Web Club
    • Archipelago[Wednesday 26th March] I officially joined the Archipelago. We had a long conversation with Mariana and Jasmijn about organizing seminars and workshops to bring together the people from all the masters. Our first idea would be to organize a seminar/round table about eco-feminism. We came to the understanding that a lot of people across the masters share an interest for fabric design and recycling fabrics, so we thought it would be nice to bring those people together to host a sort of conference or talk about those matters. This is very exciting!
    • Rêves Party — my first bachelor's graduation project. It is a text collection gathering extracts from french texts (novels, poems, short stories, etc.) that talk about travelling, dreaming, escaping. The collection takes the form of a zine where each text is displayed with a specific CSS animation/interaction, according to its content. There is also a website for the collection, which you can then print for yourself. To this day, the zine gathers 8 texts. —— My aim is to enhance it with texts taken from the british/american literary heritage.
    • Synthetica — a project started during my second bachelor. It gathers essays, interviews and articles about the uses of generative AIs in the context of graphic design and art creation and the damages it causes. It borrows Wikipedia's graphics and holds a system or hyperlinks to build an index inside of the text flow, making the book mimic the "Choose your own adventure" stories. —— At the moment, I am in the process of getting authorizations from the authors of the texts to publish it. Some of them don't reply or refused to let me use them for free, so I have to remove some texts. I still have a prototype containing all the texts I initially planned to publish.
    • Lilas Prose — a writer, crafter and DIYer. She is in need of a website so I am currently building it.
    • Langages|Jeux — for my first bachelor I wrote a short thesis about word plays, playing with words and language(s) and how designers make use of those playgrounds. I've been wanting to publish it in English and I figure the best way to do so was to transform it into a website. I am still in the process of building the website, I then will have to work on the translation. I would like to have this done before the end of this year. Let's see...
the responsive is broken :)