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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
👹 & 👺: constantly raising the level
👹 & 👺: We arrived with some bold ideas and they replied with something even bolder
👹 & 👺: Helped to continously questioning industry' standards
👹 & 👺: 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 tengu
👹 & 👺: 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