>> What am I interested in?
I am interested in hotdesking learning / making environments how they are perceived by students. What belongs in the studio? What can leftovers tell us about a teaching session? I would like to study this by what is left behind after a studio making session.
Part of these interests link to notions of belonging, waste and space as a place for community building.
>> Why does this matter to me?
I strongly believe in the generative power spaces can have.
>> ‘find a way and trust it for a while’ as sister corita mentions in her manifesto.
Studios are also often spaces in which bad drawings lead to long lasting critical friendships, the ones that have helped me sustain a creative practice.
>> My positionality:
I am a white European person that was assigned female at birth from an upper class background. I practice as an artist and designer in collaborative and individual, institutional and self organised contexts. As a person that was never taught craft, I struggle with making in front of others and I have found university studios and workshops intimidating settings. Brought up in a meritocratic setting in which ‘hard work gets you places’ I was taught to be an overachiever that might not make the best things but makes loads of it as an expression of effort. I feel strongly about ‘cleaning up after yourself’ as premise for sharing space with respect. Leaving traces is a bad thing.
Research question and keywords
What belongs in the [hot-desking] studio? What does it mean that it has stayed behind?
what do you need to know more about
(knowledge formation / concept planning)
observation in the classroom
learning artefacts
leftovers
belonging
read about object oriented ontology / interviewing objects
–Attend cross-programme event 4th
— Complete Ethical Enquiry Form (to bring to tutorial)
–start reading and researching into your topic and documenting on your blog (McNiff, plus anything else about belonging / physicality)
>>>>A clear research plan / task list
To read:
read about observation in the classroom (done)
read about learning artefacts (review from unit 1)
read about leftovers (any readings?) and belonging (bell hooks?)
read about object oriented ontology / interviewing objects (vibrant matter?)
>>>>>How could I research:
-observe
-take note after every session
-photograph objects and their positioning of the space?
-scan objects / drawings (flattening? why would you do that?)
-interview objects?
what is the next thing you are going to do? (Action Plan / task list)
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word vomit:
I am interested in the hot-desking space and h
-what do they bring, in what format, how?
-how do they transport things? No one ever taught anyone to package things
(people to scared to transport things because they will damage them
-what does it feel when someone brings work?
-what does it feel when someone does not bring work
-how does it feel when someone brings work on a tablet?
-what does the tutorial feel like? what does the studio feel like?
-a speculative scenario when no one brings in work?
-what does the space have to do with it? how does timetabling get to do with it?
-what does storage have to do with it?
-the leftover in the studio: a physical trace of previous or other activity?
– a way of communicating with other parts of the course
– a way of sharing resources
-serendipnity
-what happened here? what do you think was going on?
– a starting point for new conversation
– a creation of respect and compassion between year groups that do not get to meet. (asynchronous exchange)
-annoying and messy but also kind of useful. trash–no one actually looks back into them.
-collect what ‘resources’ are left behind.
-students often leave behind work they do not assign any value to. Yet, with a huge number of students using the same space, it is probanly the piece that gets seen the most.
-thing that don’t quite go to the bin but are not saved. what happens to them? does it become public?
-an observation about who / when do people bring in physical work?
-an observation about where work gets stored in the studio? where do people hide stuff
-a response to when an erasmus student asked me where can I leave my coat and where can I leave my lunch? (comfort and belonging in hotdesking environments)
-belonging
-physicality of making
-embodied / physical practices
-accessibility (cannot carry things around all the time)
-community
-anxiety (don’t belong, loosing things, comfort)
–Have a clear research question:
How does bringing physical work (sketches, print outs, prototypes) to the studio sessions creates a positive sense of community and studio culture in a hot-desking environment?