User:Kiara/First Assessment

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Having fun with the wiki

Discovering the wiki was a journey.
I had edited a wiki page once, and not a meaningless one: the Hypercard wiki page!
Still, that did not get me familiar with the wiki syntax and language. I never was the writing type - except when it is for research/analysis/academic purposes, I have big troubles with writing. I never do it properly but I do enjoy documenting.
The thing is, I am pretty much convinced I have some form of attention disorder. As a child I was always the daydreaming kid, the one that takes ages to copy what's on the blackboard and is always far from what's happening on Earth. It didn't really go away, I just learned to deal with it I guess, put a mask, a coping mechanism. As a matter of fact I am already entering a side quest with this...
Anyways, back on track, writing is not my forte. So I have troubles with keeping the wiki content updated, BUT I really have fun editing.
I like conveying some emotion through styling, and the fact that the wiki allows inline CSS is giving me the best of times. Here are some examples:

Funnily enough, I hold quite a few pages in this wiki. I tend to put a lot of information in there, the pace is really off though. Writing this precise page is also making me struggle. Is this relevant?
Besides my struggle with writing, I also struggle with preparing presentations. I am trying now, but probably I'll improvise and forget to say a lot of things, as usual...

This all very overwhelming.


An outline to keep track?

Rêves Party is the title of my first bachelor's graduation project. It is a text collection gathering extracts from french texts (novels, poems, short stories, etc.) that talk about travelling, dreaming, escaping. The collection takes the form of a zine where each text is displayed with a specific CSS animation/interaction, according to its content. There is also a website for the collection, which you can then print for yourself. To this day, the zine gathers 8 texts.
My aim is to enhance it with texts taken from the british/american literary heritage.

Wednesday 26th March I officially joined the Archipelago. We had a long conversation with Mariana and Jasmijn about organizing seminars and workshops to bring together the people from all the masters. Our first idea would be to organize a seminar/round table about eco-feminism. We came to the understanding that a lot of people across the masters share an interest for fabric design and recycling fabrics, so we thought it would be nice to bring those people together to host a sort of conference or talk about those matters. This is very exciting!