21 January 2023 — Emacs Research Group

2023-01-21 Sat — Noorah Alhasan, Joe Corneli, Leo Vivier

21 January 2023 — Emacs Research Group

Check-ins

NA

  • Mourning the loss of Andy, and Suzi's loss of her brother

JC

  • Currently in Bristol with AT

AT

LV

Meta points

DONE Don't forget to record the session!LV

TODO Pre-PAR — Review the intention: what do we expect to learn or make together?

  • Dress rehearsal of the Bristol workshop

Agenda (Part 1) - Phase II (play-by-play)

Introducing Phase II

  • Converting Phase I mind map into org-roam network visual

  • How to classify these notes?

    • By CLA level?

  • Questions that we need to answer:

    1. What needs to happen from the end of phase 1?

    2. How does it go into phase 2?

    3. How does phase 2 happens?

Play-by-play of the entire workshop

  • 0930-1000. Arrival, tea and coffee (Waterside 3)

  • 1000-1030. Media screening (Cinema 2)

  • 1030-1230. Session 1: experts to citizens (Waterside 3). This is about context, stripping expertise, going to the root myth.

    • Introduce the workshop theme and core question using slides [AT]

    • Introduce the workshop format using slides [JC]

      • In short, if the problem could be solved by individuals using standard methods it probably would have been done already.

    • 1145: LV is available and we begin a process of condensing what was done in phase 1

    • Distil everything into one overall map

  • 1230-1330. Lunch (provided)

    • Working lunch for facilitators, so have a premade lunch

    • Finalise distillation of map

    • Walk through map with Noorah from 1300

    • Ensure that we have people only as citizens, not as experts; they have reached a ‘centered point’ in which everyone is harmonized.

  • 1330-1500. Session 2: citizens to action (Waterside 3). We want to generate patterns with some degree of mobility from the original context.

    • Joe to provide some HOWEVER BECAUSE THEREFORE SPECIFICALLY cards and show how to use them

    • Participants continue to work in small groups to explore scenarios that explore the original problems, and come up with coherent next steps

    • Introduce the Lounge tool for Phase 2

    • Pictures of these can become proto-patterns, see example below; these are the prismatic reflections of the original problem AT presented

      • With given proto-patterns, ‘However’ means a bridge between contexts

    • Leo and Noorah work in the background to turn patterns into a pattern language

  • 1500-1530. Review and close (Cinema 2)

    • Screenshare Org-Roam-UI with basic patterns in it; as a prototype, can we view the central problem as the apex of a double cone of problems?

    • We want them to understand that this problem is related to a whole array of problems (things this is not, but things it is adjacent to); this will contribute to motivating the participants because they’ll realise they have new superpowers.

      • Who else do they need to talk to?

    • Not only are they harmonized (from Phase I, they are also somewhat unblocked)

  • 1530-1700. Reception (Watershed bar)

1:30–1:45 Presentation of org-roam mindmap by LV and NA 1:45–2:00 JC explanation 2:00–2:45 3 rotations of 15′

BREAK

Agenda (Part 2)

  • Phase I

PAR

1. Establish what is happening: what and how are we learning?

2. What are some different perspectives on what's happening?

3. What did we learn or change?

4. What else should we change going forward?

Tentative agenda for next week

Check-out

NA

JC

LV


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