How did we get to here? It may be wrong for an anthropology student to be so fascinated by causality, but here I am, and here we’ve all ended up. In the grand holistic human scheme of things, there’s too much going on to even know where to start figuring …
Reflection on Semester 2 : Future of Our University Over the course of the second semester there was a push to finalise the course. This has given everyone lots of time to reflect on the many different workshops and sessions that took place over the final months. For this reflection …
In this reflection, I would like to think about the course in its globality in relation the wider structures it operates in, such the University bureaucracy. I believe the course is a radical political experiment and it should aim to retain its political significance. The University as neoliberal institution Firstly, …
For my reflection on the second half of this course, I am going to write about which particular activity we did in class that I felt I learnt the most from. I want to focus on the session in which Pilar Garcia de Leaniz came in and ran a session …
I believe the one of the biggest challenges we have faced has been what I would define as structure, and I think our experience with it is one of the most important things we can share with those who make the course in the future. I have tried to be …
Over the last couple of months, I helped facilitate an investigation for The Student into the working conditions of tutors. Though the eventual article included responses to questions that we asked about pay, hours worked for preparation and general working conditions, I also asked tutors questions about the mental health …
So this is it, the end of this year in the Future of Our University course. I am so grateful that I had the opportunity to participate in this course from its idea to its realisation and to have shared this experience with all these great people. I would have …
In this reflection piece, I study human organisations from a system thinking perspective. More precisely, I explore the system we set together to organise ourselves in this course and the place we took in the whole institutional system that is the university. The idea of human organisation was central to …
How do we learn without reading? Can we? I’m torn (productively!) by holding simultaneously contradictory perspectives on the question of reading and its place in the course this year; so I think it would be a useful question to start my reflection with this theme. My immediate reaction is that …
I made this card to say thank you. Thank you to everyone who participated and engaged in such a wonderful project which I was ever so excited about from the first moment it was suggested over a year ago. I would like to contextualise this gratitude, for fear of it …
