Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Wayfinding to become a community

The first week of school was very touch and go, meaning the first task was simple, although many of us complained I think we got something from it that we could bring back to the drawing board for the next task. I am part of the clubs, when we where challenged to combine our groups to make a whole i felt we did not have enough time to completely layout everything to the best of our ability. The idea was communicated well I thought but as the class as a whole agreed, not presented the best way, I was actually one of the ones that felt lost in our presentation, we meet earlier that day and agreed on a solution for our presentation. Some of the group was MIA but we agreed. when I came into studio for group presentations I was lost because my group had changed our idea and appearance of the presentation. As a group I definitely think we learned some key examples of what not to do, and hopefully we can grow from those as a whole. The class as a whole was another story completely and from it you can definitely see the maturity levels in the class and the lack to be professional. When we came together one group had an idea that most really liked, but some argued that we should at least have back ups. So we met in small groups and discussed the idea and found that not everyone agreed. We came back together as a whole presented the former idea again along with two other new ideas. The class voted and the first idea was over ruled by a new one that majority felt was best. In constructing this new idea I could see the corruptness unfold. The group that favored their first idea picked and criticized the new idea until no one recognized it. Along with major pouting and pour sportsmanship the new idea was overruled and the first idea along with there group began construction on the present idea leaving the majority rule in the background. So as a class I believe there is a lot of growing up to do and we need to learn how to respect others.

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