This week, we extended our speculation and added the layer of speculative scenario, world building and tested with incubator. This week’s blog contains weekly lecture theme, the content of our project and my reflection of collaboration.
For this week’s lecture, we focused on complex systems – human and non-human agents. In Lee’s class, I created art using random material and asked to explain my own expression of future of work. In Eilliot’s class, I had a further understanding of technology using the linking object I brought, which is my oyster card.
For the content of our project, our team created our own definition, framework and structure of work, that leads to the idea of the Ministry of Human Resources of UK government, and using job key to document a person’s primary, secondary and tertiary job so that it can make invisible job more visible. After communicating with diverse audience, the problem is some people will be unwilling to be documented because of various reasons such as visa / main job requires people not have part-time job, and questions are put forward towards how we evaluate one’s working time, how can we make amend to those who are not getting paid by their invisible work.
By build our speculative world, I think the conditions that can make the world we built exist is that we have to be powerful enough so we can carry out the job key system, so that people can be forced to follow it. (Personally speaking, I want to avoid using power to supervise or force people) And another problem is how we can make amends to workers, to stretch this problem into the future, our team wants to use universal basic income.
And last but not least, for collaboration, we had another conflict on the work allocation of the project content and the tension came from preventing anyone from taking the credit. Even though the conversation is extremely hard, I can understand it and look it in a positive way. I reached out to the unstable teammate and expressed how I care about her feeling. I am more experienced to deal with conflict and able to see things in a different way and try to understand from the other side of the conflict. I am really glad I can be capable of a more mature approach when facing intense situation. And I can also understand the frustration from people on the other side.
I look at Unit 2 in a positive way, it opens a door for a more cruel but real aspect of the world. And I can think more, prepare more courage to become a global citizen, this experience is like a vaccine, if I occur things like that in the future (and I wish not), I can be more experienced to deal with it and take care of myself.
