trees are people too

Meeting minutes for our second meeting.

Elizabeth, Sarah, Tingting and I met in the labs.

Discussion of what we had done over the last week. What would we do for the next? Plan for our mock interview. Discussion of content. Discussion of publishing a faux interview with Tom Sherman, publishing his correspondence with us. Discussion of use of photographs – Discussion of overall copyright issues, further covered by Adrian. Review of classmates wikis to see if we are on track. How are our creative researching skills? Where do we go from here?

Working in our ‘sections’ seems to be working quite well. We can continue focusing on one topic/area of information (which we can then take a bit of ownership for) and this gives us each a foundation from which to branch out from. I have discovered, since laying down my original posting (on writings), it becomes easier from there to ‘build’ on existing content. I am hoping it becomes a more ‘organic’ experience.

Elizabeth mentioned that the research was taking disproportionately long compared to how much content was prepared, and we discussed how hopefully (as mentioned above) this would become less as we start to branch out, following ‘hunches’ and the research takes on life of its own. It will be more involuntary, more natural. I think we will find this is the case – i have been surprised already at how the research – my research practice – is evolving.

From our foundation, we thought we would spend the next week developing our sections and working on pbranching out from our own areas and also noting areas, keywords in each others research we might like to expand on and develop.

We are going to meet next week to film a mock interview, in which, as discussed with Adrian in class, we can quote our good friend Tom as long as we avoid risking defamation by keeping it in good taste. We’ll brainstorm the interview during the week, and we are also toying with the idea of including content from his email. It was so lovely, after all.

But we all seem to be on track and our little wiki is taking shape. It’s fun watching our applied research, our explorations, being collected and curated there. If we can keep up the momentum the creature should evolve quite pleasingly.