Category: Week 5

This week, the layer focuses more on presentation and communication.

For this week’s lecture, Mark’s artistic intervention really impressed me. He let another people to live with a camera to record all the details of one’s life, and he used a VR device to simulate another person’s life and try to understand a new lifestyle. It is crazy but brave and creative. His background of fine art really influenced a lot with his style of intervention. This inspired me to think about my future intervention, do I have a chance, more likely do I have the guts, to do an artistic intervention using performance art.

For this week’s project, we spent a lot of time to prepare for the slide. During the process of making a slide, we dug deeper by asking ourselves the questions that might be asked. It is not as simple as copy paste, for example, we found that the job type for job key is not sufficient enough, we researched the work type and made it more detailed. For another example, when I create the slide of collaboration, we want to cover more aspects using SWOT analysis. When I wrote down key points, I thought a lot, took a time to look back, the appreciation for teamwork and tolerance from both sides came naturally into my mind and it leads to a more positive mind towards my future collaboration. And we also added critical lens to our slide, we did not see our project as 100% perfect, such as the solution of universal basic income is controversial, my Chinese teammate shared me a podcast which analyzed the pros and cons of UBI (and I attached the detail below), it is said that there was an investigation, the people who got the money and then refuse to work and take drugs were actually very few, normal and rational people will feel that they will be focusing more to a long-term gain, if the money is spent in the short term, then the risk is higher. But all in all, UBI is still a very controversial topic. 

Beyond that, from our persentation, I learned so many things, but one thing I especially want to mention is that we should always consider diversity when creating archetypes.

This week begins with another conflict during tutorial. Since I am more experienced with dealing with conflict, this week I stayed calm, when facing conflict, my tear did not drop unconsciously, that is a very huge step for me both mentally and especially physically, that way I can look more stable and calmer to state myself when an extreme situation happen. In the future when I am at a work scenario, I can look more professional. And I had a long conversation with another teammates on Wednesday, we all enjoyed it, during the conversation, we understand each other better and embrace the difference between each other. The conflict in collaboration unit definitely is a hidden treasure and a valuable lesson. A happy ending. Yay!