Bootcamp

initial reflections [17 oct 22]

Faces with child-like features attached to sleep-deprived bodies forced into ill-fitting uniforms get yelled at so that one day soon the owners of those faces might kill for a nation-state. Despite the name, that’s not what this course was about at all. Instead, it was a week of mostly introductory events (getting to know people, getting to know spaces, machines, and practices).

It was too much information at once for me to remember many of the faculty member’s names, or the details of which space we may use when/how. But the sessions on first-person research and especially the one on prototyping were very interesting. I really enjoyed thinking about the almost infinite variety of activities one could approach with a ‘prototyping’ / design mindset. More on that in the homework for next week.

The work we did for this course was mostly about who we are, who we want to be, and what we want to do. These are the deliverables I created for the course:

• me vs future me: pdf
• prediction on how the courses might affect me positively: pdf
• the ‘my fight’ poster (a title which should not to be translated into German too litteraly) : pdf

I assumed that the poster was just a way of breaking the ice, and didn’t think about what projects it might entail. But it turns out that it really helps in searching for a project - a perhaps unintended trick that worked very well for me (this might work only once, as all future assignments will likely seem like some kind of Chekov’s gun).