A brief view of the contents of our last week of Unit 2.

We had our last tutorial with David, who gave us a bit of final advice on how we could present our current progress of our project, and what we could take from our collaborative process from Unit 2.

Mark’s lecture on Tuesday evening. Surprisingly, the main thing I noticed was the way he presented his projects, which was by showing a narrative of the content of the project instead of basing bullet points off a powerpoint slide, which was what I originally thought a presentation would be like.

That was very useful when I was preparing my part of the presentation, that the content we speak while showing a powerpoint slide does not have to be word for word in that powerpoint because that would be conveying the same information twice.

The presentation went well. We were right on time with our presentation and we also answered questions on how our narrative of HAPPY would impact the future, as well as how policies could change in order to let an organization such as HAPPY exist. We answered with the idea of “tittytainment”, which meant that people with a lack of sense and meaning would need low-brow entertainment to regain that sense of meaning, which could be a direction of where HAPPY might go in our progress of the project.

I had an interesting realization during lunch, probably because part of my unconscious mind was still on our project. I think I would be the perfect person to be recruited into HAPPY if I wasn’t lucky enough to study in MA Applied Imagination and meeting and collaborating with the student cohort, because I was originally a very ignorant person and what was worse, I was comfortable being ignorant. I had a very dear friend back in China who was frustrated by me being blank about what she is saying about political views, but after the collaborative project, I did understand why she was so insistent on keeping a clear head in the midst of the chaos of society. If I was ignorant and not sensitive to my surroundings, I would be an unknowing victim to organizations such as HAPPY, and I would be perfectly content about it.

So on that rather dystopian note, we end this unit. I now have a reason to stay alert and keep aware of the narratives in society, and I would especially take note of the author of that narrative.

Reference:

Anon, (n.d.). Tittytainment / Ylva Bentancor» Errant Sound. [online] Available at: https://errantsound.net/2015/08/tittytainment-ylva-bentancor/.