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.
- collective notes vs listening and participation
- fast and advanced learning vs collective work
- technical skills refinement vs social practice
- processing and learning vs time to work
- learning, discovering, absorbing vs writing, practicing, making
- tech that barely works vs tools that are actually useful (and make a difference)
- thinking vs metathinking
- writing vs metawriting
- focusing vs website mingling
- situatedness vs broadcasting
- FOMO vs commitment to one thing
- auto-referenziale vs meta
- intimate and private vs making things public
- crafting vs documenting
- touching many different things (horizontally) vs focusing on a topic and diving very deep (vertically)
- Listening vs taking notes