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Project Log 2025 | Gest. Machine.

Week 1 (intro)

[Agenda by Manetta and Michael]
03.09. (Wednesday)
Digital infrastructures --> Some challanges identified:

• make digital infrastructures tangible
• open up conversation about digital infrastructures
• friction of infrastructure & acccess(ibility)
• "to put things in motion"

Infrastructures "tools shapes practice shapes tools..."

• design(ers) intention --> idealistic/unrealistic (could be the case that does not overlap real needs e.g. desire path)

VS.

• prototyping and testing --> (hopefully getting closer to reality through user's feedback)

Vague ideas:

• Competition of existing infrastructure and design solutions (e.g. short highway bridges --> short buses???)
• to approach design from the effect it (would) create rather then only examining the intention behind the project

Read:

• [Artifacts Have Politics? by Langdon Winner]
• [Rehearsing Access' by Ren Loren Britton]

Local networks Again... some key words to grasp:
FRICTIONS of :

• controll
• accoutability
• tracking
• "copyright trolls"
• networks used by institutions (with preferences large scale tech companies such as Microsoft, Google etc. and their services --> reliant on these companies)
• a reason to have an internal XPUB network is not only to be in a bubble but also to study what it needs what it could mean to have an internal aka. local network for such community based course ?
• different types of networks for different reasons (e.g. for communication, for file sharing --> what else? --> fun task: to turn old laptop into a file sharing server :D )

IP adress:

Week 2 Mind F*ck Workshop with [Balaguer]

11.09. (Wednesday)
Day 1 [Record by Secretari(es)]
Day 2 [Record by Secretari(es)]
Day 3 [Record by Secretari(es)]

Refusal of the Call to Order: Clara showed a couple of methods to attract attetntion of the class without expilictly saying something like: "'The class has started pleas pay attention'". Rather she choose different techniques such as sitting in silence, observing and live typing what is happening in the clasroom. Or giving a book in one of the student's hand and ask to start reading out loud. There is a gradual process of getting everyone pay attention to whats going on in the 'circle'.

Blocks of Time: She found herself to be more efficient to work in a set of time, I guess because then there is a pressure to compress the info that she wants to give for us. >>> This requieers a great amount of practice in 'deep listening', editing, and language use in speech.

Deep Listening: Is a practice to listen with the whole body as a tuning fork.The methods she presented are borrowed from [Listenin by Pauline Olvieros].