Minute keeping/ summary
Minute taker: Hamza
Apologies
- Cara, Sherene and Nathan
A recap – mission statement – 14:10 – 14:20
- Go over consensus decision on the goals and vision we wrote
- Time for mission statement to be read out, goals and collective vision recapped
Discussion of attendance 14:20 – 14:33
- Will we formally write a list of people who attend?
- Discussion of whether or not we want the attendance data to be used by the university
- Decided that we will make a statement for the university discussing our terms of how we wish to take attendance and use this data
Forming groups and discussion of approaches and ideas 14:34 – 16:00
- Wrote on post – it notes how we individually wish to realise our goals and vision
- Discussed in pairs/groups what our ideas and methods were to share and potentially gain inspiration as to how we wish to achieve our goals
- Shared with the group our ideas of how to realise our goals and aspects of our goals we would be interested in pursuing
- Post – it notes were organised in spheres of overlapping themes, ideas or methods in order to streamline the various interests of the group
- These groups of post – it notes were spread to different tables with “anchors”
Ideas of group projects
Bureaucratisation
⁃Flow chart of governance
⁃Case studies of other ways to govern universities
⁃Humor around the frustration of bureaucracy (Important to state the context)
⁃Finance (where does it come from? How is the money spent?)
Education
⁃Explore new pedagogies
⁃What is the hierarchy within learning (ages, socials classes…)
⁃Explore the Interdisciplinarity within the university
⁃What is the university? (perspectives from individuals, institutions, collectivity, …)
Creative Archives
⁃Internal archives (recording what we are doing? => whatever methods/formats)
⁃Ways to use creative methods for other groups
⁃Post-bureaucracy archive (look at what we are doing through different lenses)
Communities connections
⁃Exploring what is community?
⁃Exploring what is the place of the university within the Edinburgh community?
(Students not being anthropologist and building for yourself but learning from it)
⁃Exploring the sense of isolation of different communities within the university
⁃Exploring how Edinburgh university could consider the ideas of different communities
Gardening project
⁃Theoretical and practical learning and application
⁃Archives of local knowledge of sustainability
⁃Regards of different issues of sustainability within the university (contact with the SRS department)
