About the process: First we all individually filled out the ‘drivers’ questionnaire (uploaded in a separate post, if you want to fill it out yourself), to think about what we bring to the group and the projects. Then people wrote on post-its in response to the four questions below. I mostly just typed up everyone’s answers, but have tried to group them thematically below. Question 1 was a response to the questionnaire activity. For question 2, people could put their names by their responses. Some responses to the last question were the same, so I’ve put in a number in parentheses to indicate that.
Question 1: In the light of what you learned from the individual exercise (see attachment), what aspects of how you operate in the course/projects would you like to work on?
Relations with others
Listening
Not expecting a lot from others, being disappointed: I can have a clear idea where I want to go and be disappointed when it doesn’t go in my way and when people don’t give what expected
Compromise
Kindness, open-mind
Managing the scale of projects
Group communication
Splitting tasks and group feedback
Time
Taking time
Time management—especially in getting the most out of reading
Need to work on time management
Planning and scheduling
Taking time to explore the subject
Need to work on time management
Long-term project planning
Attitudes/personal commitments
Embodied practice
Motivation
Sticking to my guns, remembering that my opinions are valid
Not being afraid to change own plans/ideas once started on project
How to work on final work not based on essays, etc.
Question 2: What aptitudes do you bring to the course/projects? What are you good at? (Can include, e.g. tech, theatre, graphics etc. etc.)
Making food for lots of people (Niamh)
Listening and mediating (Gaby)
ART 🙂 (Annapurna)
Draw, paint (watercolor) (Gray)
Collage
Science stuff (Gaby)
Qualitative research skills! Interviewing, oral history, ethnography, making zines, using methods that I am not totally expert in! e.g. participatory video, digital storytelling (Niamh)
Video-making (sort of) (Dante)
Video editing (Hamza)
Edit videos (Gray)
Music? (Ollie)
Finding problems (Hamza)
Asking questions (Ollie)
Energy to go forward
Understanding of use of space (Sophia L.)
Public speaking, presenting (Cara)
Public speaking (Gray)
Propagandising (Dante)
Organizing materials (Gaby)
Writing (Sophia W.)
Writing, analysis, presentation (Sean)
Writing, organization
Being organized, writing
Summary, overall idea
I’m not bad at grammar/writing (Fanny)
Write well and proofread well (Gray)
Speak several languages (Fanny)
Speak Russian, French, German (Gray)
Question 3: What do you really enjoy doing that you’d like to develop in this course?
Working collaboratively/participatory research
Collaborative work
Working in groups!
Group work—reaching shared conclusions
Working with different people
Learning from people
Informal learning
Working on big projects in a group
Learning new/unexpected things
Collaborative thinking
Group work and field work
Collective/collaborative thought
Enjoy critically analysing things and deconstructing ideas down to their bare bones
Interviewing/qualitative research
Creative work
Playfulness
Going on trips! (day or more)
Working with visual media
Writing creative projects
Question 4: What specific skills/knowledge would you like/need to learn?
Technical
Digital skills (e.g. film, web etc.) (2)
Digital design skills
Graphic recording
Graphic recording/facilitation
Audio editing and creating audio based projects (2)
Web design (?)
Interpersonal
Facilitation (3)
Cooking
Growing plants
Proactiveness
Conflict resolution
Public speaking
Research/learning
Social sciences research methods
Research/research ethics
Interviewing to elicit hidden responses
Bringing together analytic and creative thinking
Different methods of approaching a subject
Different approaches to learning
