Wednesday
In Elisabeth’s workshop today we created a map of questions based on the progress of our project. We started by writing out questions individually and then piecing them together and finally filtering out 3 questions that are the most important.
Below are the questions we wrote individually:
The top 3 questions we summarized from the above are as follows:
- How are we going to do interviews and account/ignore the assumptions/biases in it?
- What is the impact/outcome that we are trying to achieve?
- What is the evidence for our speculation?
Something else that really inspired me was Elisabeth’s quote at the end of the workshop: ” Stop worrying about the right decision, and make the decision right.” This to me means that achieving a 60 in the real world is way better than imagining a 100 in your head.
We made great progress during our group discussion later in the afternoon by redefining our original aim and looking further into it.
Our focus is to explore the hospitality labour being influenced(or for a better word, replaced) by the development of the usage of technology in tech companies. We centered our location on hospitality services in high-tech companies, for instance, canteens and gyms in companies like Google or Samsung.
A further note on the group discussions: I really enjoy the vibe of our team because we can have really heated debates in a really friendly background. I feel like we have created a safe space within our group where every idea, no matter how whimsical or out-of-context it is(which are the ideas I tend to give out:), will be listened and analysed in the most objective way possible. We are pushing each other simultaneously and collectively in our project and I’m confident we will make further and more intriguing progress in the weeks ahead.