Month: March 2024

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ROLL CREDITS

The end of unit 2 had a euphoric ending. i feel immensely proud of the work produced and my group as i feel we completed the task that was asked of us. my group members returned once more to the third floor of csm where the first meeting occurred, we joked that it fit our spiral timeline. Unit 2 has taught me patience and organization, it also showed how efficient a group of hive minded individuals can be on a short deadline. The floors of the CSM library became beds at 4AM on the eve of the presentation but it attest to the importance of delivery this project had to me. The communication and responsiveness team persimmon shared during the QnA portion of the presentation felt that it had gone perfectly. in this perfectly timed 10 min presentation we all became so critical to the nature of the subject that i feel any member of team persimmon could have accurately presented the project alone! Happy Holidays, this one is well deserved.

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Peaks & Troughs

The shoulders of team persimmon remain relatively light in comparison to the un-ignorable situations occurring between the cohort. it remains the topic of discussion and has even spilled personally into the MAAI cohort. Unfortunately the build up of all these situations has fundamentally ruined what the point of this COLLABORATIVE unit intended. nonetheless I feel thankful that my group have remained ground level and within the same spirit, we have worked hard to create world building in our future scenario and I feel like the work load was properly distributed. an aspect that disheartens me is the possibility that proper communication or lack thereof has been holding us back. At times I feel frustrated with the responsibility of breaking the silence which sometimes causes me to conjure and idea that may not be completely fleshed out. The incubator test day offered great insight into the immediate challenges our scenario encounters, I made sure to stay around our pavilion to see how people reacted and interacted with our world. Being that the final presentation takes place less then a week away I feel motivated to push for the last time and deliver something to be proud off collectively. I look forward to the platform bar reward which will take place immediately after presentation.

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Week 3: The Week of Tension

After gaining insight from our interview at Leica cameras, team persimmon was left with more than enough information to build off of. After Monday’s tutorial, our Tutor , gave us the greenlight to experiment and brainstorm, with different forms of extrapolating our ideas into reactive outcomes for the incubator overview. A crossroad had to be formed in order to progress further. The team has now been together for three weeks, yet at times, it seemed like politeness of first meetings/ impression was holding us back. A tension arose created from the stress of looping through the same idea, lack of progression or ideas having to be explained to the point of losing meaning. 

After a long, detailed discussion, something clicked within per persimmon, which I’m very proud of. we had learned what the point of this unit was, it was a field study of what happens when two unique productive methodologies converge. we quickly understood that cause of this contention was due to the different mindsets and approaches our respective MA degrees behave in. 

CCC’ heavenly introspective and calculated analysis was clashing with AI’s action research approach. Think instead of do VS. do then think upon the results. 

This became so clear that immediately as a group we were able to rebound and establish what the next week would be. I thought of using this unit, as a method of learning different techniques in methodology and how it could improve my final outcome, of every project or endeavour I take on in the future. 

Grimaces turned to smiles.