Collaboration in creative processes, Collaboration as creative process

In Module One we introduce ideas about ‘networks’, the ‘networked professional’ and cooperation. There is a discussion on Game theory, particularly the ‘prisoners Dilemma’.

To explore this further visit:  http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/playground/pd.html.

The idea of cooperation is explored in many artists processes. Art activism often uses the idea of making something together as a way to value and highlight community. I feel collaboration has a part in the map of an artists practice. Where is collaboration in your practice, in your inquiry, in your field of work?

Here is a video talk about collaboration and the work of a poet who uses collaboration as part of process. If you asked yourself how to collaborate each time you started a creative process what interesting ethical considerations does it raise - different for each situation I would think. In this way collaboration could be seen as a principle for learning not just an organising tool. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmQVNE-MbKI

What are your comments?

Campus Session

This Tuesday October 30th, we have a Hendon Campus Session from 1pm to 3:30pm
Comment below to indicate if you will attend. 

Discussion

In this mornings twighlight Skype chat we talked about the importance of having discussion with others about the ideas and assignments in the course. We thought it might be good to have a Linked-in discussion group in order to have a focused discussion. Join in with the conversation at...

https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13627321/

Friday Campus session

We talked about
AOLs, inquiry structures, and analysis -
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This is a short post so people attending the session can write comments below. I will post further later in the week.

Adesola

Twilight Tuesday Discussion Group

This Tuesday, October 16th, we have Twilight Tuesday Discussion Skype sessions. Every Module is welcome. This is a great time to share ideas and talk to other members of the learning community.

These will be at:

7am (time in London)

or

9pm (time in London)

Comment below to indicate which one you will attend and share relevant thinking/doing you have been mulling, reflecting on.

Why blogging - being a living part of a network of information & community.

This post is a short 'bit' about the blogs and why the blogs. In the new Module One handbooks (ACI3611) we discuss the networked professional and suggest looking at some videos. Below is one we suggest watching. (I thought it would be good to see for the Module Two and Threes who have not had the new Module One handbooks.)The blog contribute to the structure of our BAPP Learning Network / Networked understanding. This is a network you are part of this term.

On this course we draw heavily from the theoretical concept of Connectivism developed differently by Steven Downes and George Siemens. Below George Siemens talks about blogs in terms that help explain why they are a part of the network of learning in BAPP ACI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yx5VHpaW8sQ&list=PL521ADEA73AB9F2F3&index=94

Please comment on what you are thinking/feeling of this post below. It would be interesting to discuss some of the video content in our Twilight Tuesday Skype Discussion Group on October 16th or at the campus session tomorrow*. 
(*The sign-up for Friday and Tuesday are on a 'Session reminder Post'-NOT this post) 

Visit someones blog today and exchange an idea or conversation - visit someone's blog in the BAPP community you have not visited much before - explore.
Adesola

Campus Session

This Friday October 12th, we have a Hendon Campus Session from 1pm to 4pm.
Comment below to indicate if you will attend. 

Online session with Module Three focus: The art of Noticing

We had two online sessions with ACI3633 (Module Three)  focus today. The general topic was 'research terms-what are you doing?' !! The session was really about how all the elements we use to design an inquiry in ACI3622 (Module Two) are actually manifesting in the inquiry process of ACI3633 (Module Three).

Now there were people from Module One and Two in both sessions which is great because these ideas are not secrets only to be discussed on ACI3633 !! And also great because what we are saying about the inquiry in ACI3633 inquiry is 'true' for the 'inquiry' into what your practice is/can be in ACI3611 Module One and the 'inquiry' into designing a practice-based research activity/inquiry in ACI 3622 (Module Two) . In other words its all connected.

So, where is analysis manifesting in your inquiry? - we talked about the relationship this has to noticing and reflecting on what is happening around you. Also analysis is manifesting in how the literature/art work reviews you do inform or shine new perspectives on things ...

We talked about how Method is manifesting in your inquiry - are you noticing how you are doing thing. Are you aware of what it is that you are doing? and that in what you are doing you are making choices. There is a method to what you are doing but it is important to notice and analyze what it is. Just like in ACI3611 you are peeling your practice away from the back ground noise of your training or circumstance, in the inquiry you are peeling your activity (what you are doing) away from the autopilot or assumptions of.... should be done.

We talked about how ethnography is manifesting in your inquiry - in this course you are central to what you are doing. Its about your practice. Noticing yourself and making a space for you to be present. This is not about being neutral (not bias) because from the perspective of this course you can not be non-bias. "Wherever you go, You come along too!" You can only see through your eyes but you can imagine, empathize, notice consider other perspectives = reflection. In the inquiry the learning is in the reflection not finding  something that will tell you what to think!!!

We talked about how methodology is manifesting in your inquiry - The philosophy behind why you are doing things the way you are doing them.

We talked about how ethics is in everything, not isolated.

Overall we talked about noticing things

People are posting about:
The significance of You - see ethnography ....
Ethnography and method can disclose methodology
Methods = looking at/taking note of how you are doing things
Notice everything - keep reflecting
(personally I feel noticing can make you quite raw so hand-in-hand with it is to forgiving yourself)
Nothing is waisted  it is all part of (the) process
Analysis - critical thinking can be happening all the time.

Please 'notice' the glossaries at the end of the handbooks and start to add words and add to the meanings that are there so that you start to develop your own understanding of the language we are using.

Please comment below 

Module One focus session: Practice (peeling your practice away from the background noise of...)

We looked at what we could mean by Practice:

peeling it away from the background noise of your training, what you have had to do because xyz, what other people have told you are rather than what you see your direction as, the restrictions of work or organizations,....

We talked about how we are seeing your practice as fluid... changing as you find yourself in different situations, over time etc...

We looked at elements that contribute to what we are calling your practice - what you have learnt since formal training, what is 'self' learnt, or gleaned on the job/in action.

What are discourses in your field that around about things you value or contribute to shaping your practice.

We made connections between understanding your own learning style - as part of understanding and recognizing what you have learnt (AOLs) and also as a way to support your further learning now and across your professional career.

We made connections between using the Three lens in the handbook to help notice and give form to your practice. and also as a way to talk about it i.e. talk about your practice through reflecting on it, looking at what your networks are, seeing how you communicate and present it and yourself.

We said practice is not just the title of the job you do, it is deeper including what you value...

We saw how the 'diagram' maps out your practice, values, landscape, objects , discourses. How it might be a starting point to the essay rather than the other way around. 

We made lots of connections across all the elements of the Module ...please look at the comments below to see some connections people in the conversations made. 

All this is critical thinking - critically thinking about your context, your construct of what you do.