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 a 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