User:Tommi/T2 Assessment

The everlasting and all-encompassing challenge of my (artistic, academic, professional, emotional) life boils down to a perpetual multidimensional tension among different practices, obsessions, principles. Most essentially, every single daily choice poses a threat to my mental health, especially being a curious and enthusiastic person in a world that is full of opportunities but also burning at the same time.

The perfect metaphor to represent this struggle is a scale. Here is where Marina comes into play.

Marina the scale

As I kept thinking about the way to best present my reflections over the first two trimester of XPUB, I was looking for a device to represent a constant, precarious, dynamic equilibrium, or better juggling with many different thoughts crowding my head. I started looking for an old-style scale, also in honor of my grandma’s passion for antiques.

I started telling this to all my classmates. In a quiet Saturday afternoon, during a walk with Lea, she brought me to De Majum, an adorable thrift shop in Delfshaven. Not five minutes since I was inside the shop, I found exactly what I needed.

I sent Nonna Gorix this picture, and I called her to ask her the maximum price she would put on this scale. She told me not to pay more than 20€, and that I could negotiate the price down to 15€. Eventually, I managed to buy it for 10€, especially because it did not have any plates. Victory!

I cleaned it and I added some pieces of wood at the bottom to calibrate it, as it was totally off-balance.

The only step left was to find a name for it. I named it Marina as my godmother and former scout chief, as historically she has been my reference point for pondering decisions and finding the right equilibrium, both spiritually or not.

A matter of identity

I consider

Threads

Recurring thematic threads

• Metaness
• Knowledge management and interoperability
• Tension of creativity vs organisation
• gossip unlocking
• Metaphors
• Pirate

XXPUB

XXPUB: Extra XPUB, but also XL XPUB.

• FediForum
• Local-First and its meaning in gossip
• 39C3 federated knowledge
• ILoveFS
  • Frieda
  • IAE
• DWeb and DWeb Camp

Learnings and failures

• I ended up being alone for SI28 event
• How to deal with being more acquainted with some technical skills with respect to the rest of the class

The tension → The equilibrium

This is a meta-balance: a balance that reflects about balancing itself. The equilibrium is dynamic, not static.

listening
advanced individual learning
technical solutions
bodging
impulsive intuitions
crafting
making
doing
working
vertical approach
thinking
self-referential

notetaking
collective learning
social practices
useful software
long-term planning
documenting
absorbing
reflecting
researching, brewing
horizontal “mingling”
metathinking
meta

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