SI17 reflection: ☾ Ål Nik ☾

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Overall experience

What did I love

▶ reading groups and karaoke
▶ exploring Rotterdam during the break
▶ the introduction to the topic with time to read and reflect
▶ we had a proper launch event and it was nice

What did I hate

▶ we had to put too much effort in decision making and self-facilitation of the whole process [thus, not enough time for more experiments individually or in small groups/pairs]
▶ feeling stuck again on deciding on concept & form [thus, we had to split into smaller groups - that's nice, we should have done it 1-2 weeks earlier at least]
▶ lack of time [but can we help it...]
▶ the pressure of the launch event ahhahaha

What would I like to keep

▶ having more time for reads in the beginning [but less than a month]
▶ start making the prototypes after we've already read and reflected on the reads
▶ having restrictions about the special issue form [in this case - a physical loot box]
▶ reading groups and jamming - more, please!
▶ continue with the karaoke
▶ having an editor team so there's someone to help the projects get together into one piece

What would I like to improve

▶ look for a balance between reading/researching and prototyping/experimenting
_IDEA_ from a conversation with Chae: how about we only read for 2 weeks and then only prototype/experiment for another 2 weeks
& then back to more research while already elaborating on some of the initial ideas
▶ more space for experiments & also getting feedback from the tutors at a very early stage
▶ better connection with the publisher (in our case PNF) during the whole process
▶ facilitation from outside us 12 would be super helpful for us to focus more on the projects and content [would love to have a different process experience for the last special issue]
▶ maybe it would be nice to have one special issue without so much focus and effort on the launch event, so everyone could have the time and space to play more during the trimester