Notes/Meetings for WIP Thesis Show, 11/28/17
Next Door - joined three neighborhoods with very different demographics. They don’t have an official API but I’ve been working with a coder.
Always ask yourself, from now on, next steps, what does this thing advance?
What is the major agenda that I’m focusing on?
Review does not equal show. It’s not the same expectation. Two different things.
What are the key outcomes? What have you learned so far?
What’s the hierarchy of outcomes that you’re going to focus on? That doesn’t mean you need to stop any of the threads that you’re working on. Play them out til the end of this term. But for this review, what have you learned from these inquiries, and what outcomes will you privilege in order to move on to the next phase of this project.
I posted on FB, hey who uses Next Door? Most people use it for local gossip… “well if that’s the case, then own that. How do you represent those voices?” I’m interested in activating communities and bringing people together … for the purpose of breaking down barriers, practicing resilience.
One dimension is tools for neighbors to take control of their neighborhood and practice resilience and promote local knowledge. another thread is different modalities that can bring people together - audit
Next Door is another platform I’ve been working on, using it as a medium/interface to see how people connect.
What are the things that you’re gonna focus on? Those are the meta takeaways from these three main things. But what are you going to move forward with? What
I’m interested in creating digital tools to activate spaces…
How does this fit back into co-creation, participatory design, coming back to where you started, collective experiences - is that civility? is that being polite? is it major civic issues like lack of policing? Posing those challenges in your work. Strategies for co-design. How do those things fit in? Maybe that’ll help you decide what dimension of a project you really want to push forward?