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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 [Deep Listening by Pauline Olvieros].

Composite Definition: A collection of different undestandings and expressions of these understandings from different individuals on one term.

Scientific Attitude: Religious belief in empiricism.

Pulse Excercise: Sitting in a circle of more than 10 people and saying out loud Name + How do you feel? one after another without thinking, and obesrving how feelings were circulating/swirling among the group.

Interpretation vs. Translation: While interpretation happens in the moment and usually in speech translation is a more thoughtful process for exapmle taking in consideration of examining cultural embededness and usually in a written text format.

Cultural Embededness: To research and understand that differen words, gestures, colors etc. could mean different things in relation on where (which continent > country > city > town > village > organisation > family) are the inhabitants located and how their societies built and functions.

Cosmology: The belief that there are universal laws which unify everyone (incl. human and non-human).

Universal Law according to Immanuel Kant: According to Kant, the concept of universality in ethics requires that moral principles are absolute, apply to all rational beings equally, and are not based on personal interests or inclinations. This is achieved through the Formula of Universal Law, a part of the categorical imperative, which states one should "act only in accordance with that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it become a universal law". A moral action's maxim can be universalized if it can be consistently applied to everyone without contradiction