may 10 reflections
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
We have gotten back replies from all three sites. Each of them are interesting in some way and each disappointed in some aspects. Luis from Cuba was the first to arrive. He intercepted an e-mail targeted to his grandson and has been going to town on it. He speaks perfect English and is very intellectual, and very pro-cuban/socialist, although it should be noted that he would have to be, given he is corresponding on e-mail to someone in the united states.
we struggled this week trying to put the solutions into prazctice b/c none of them seemed particularly exciting, to us. After discussing with each other and Tad and Seth and Catherine, i personally see 3 things that we could change to move forward.
1) Ask the right question -- ask a stupid question, get a stupid answer! We sent out a variety of questions to see which ones would generate interesting responses. None of us cares passionately about the relationship between JWU and RISD. Homelessness is apt to receive cliche answers. On the other hand we have to establish what is the interest of those who we are asking to do the work?
2) define your process more -- what is the process for choosing solutions? We commited to doing whatever they said, but obviously we're not going to, what is our process and criteria for selecting a solution to execute.
3) have faith in the process, maybe the "boring" solutions are doors into more interesting avenues, or maybe they will open up a dialogue with the think tanks. Don't get caught up in judging the project based on each individual solution.
4)find a way to document the process, our expectations, the miscommunications , etc , etc
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We have gotten back replies from all three sites. Each of them are interesting in some way and each disappointed in some aspects. Luis from Cuba was the first to arrive. He intercepted an e-mail targeted to his grandson and has been going to town on it. He speaks perfect English and is very intellectual, and very pro-cuban/socialist, although it should be noted that he would have to be, given he is corresponding on e-mail to someone in the united states.
we struggled this week trying to put the solutions into prazctice b/c none of them seemed particularly exciting, to us. After discussing with each other and Tad and Seth and Catherine, i personally see 3 things that we could change to move forward.
1) Ask the right question -- ask a stupid question, get a stupid answer! We sent out a variety of questions to see which ones would generate interesting responses. None of us cares passionately about the relationship between JWU and RISD. Homelessness is apt to receive cliche answers. On the other hand we have to establish what is the interest of those who we are asking to do the work?
2) define your process more -- what is the process for choosing solutions? We commited to doing whatever they said, but obviously we're not going to, what is our process and criteria for selecting a solution to execute.
3) have faith in the process, maybe the "boring" solutions are doors into more interesting avenues, or maybe they will open up a dialogue with the think tanks. Don't get caught up in judging the project based on each individual solution.
4)find a way to document the process, our expectations, the miscommunications , etc , etc
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