This is the last week of the project, and we had some finishing touches to be given to the presentation. This included planning the structure of our presentation so that it conveys our individual collaboration as well as our speculative scenario. I think the both are not necessarily co-related because a “good” end result does not mean good collaboration, and a good collaboration does not imply a “good” end product.
I personally feel like I have learnt a lot in this group collaboration and that it was a fruitful journey, the various skills I have learnt in terms of collaboration, adaptability, compromise ( compromise does not necessarily mean letting go off an idea, it means that we as a group try and incorporate it’s essence in the group), and listening to another perspective and understanding it are some things I have gained a deeper perspective on.
In this week, we gathered our data and feedback from the incubator, which was actually quite surprising, people engaged with our narrative, but they also felt a little uncomfortable with the narrative of HAPPY company, but they also felt like they’d be a part of it, if given the chance. We also tried to analyse and evaluate our research process and our collaborative process in general, since both go hand-in-hand and talking about it verbally might not be the best use of our time, since we have only ten minutes to talk about presentations, learnings, challenges, etc. We also glossed over minor details that we may have missed but found that we did have a foundation for our speculation. /
In terms of conveying our process, research and world-building, we may have missed out a few points like what do people in HAPPY organisation actually do, when they are employed? what are the social implications of our scenario in 2046, I personally think we were not able to go over some details due to time constraints and maybe we would have done a better and well-informed scenario if there was more time. We developed a sequence to do our presentation effectively and efficiently, and with the aid of visuals, we used it to communicate our collaboration and narrative, which gave us ample amount of time to do our process.
To convey our process, we used a 4-step diagram of discovery-definition-process-development-delivery, which talks about our challenges in ideation, problem definition and outcome. For conveying our extensive research, we used Saunders’ research onion to explain our approach, strategies, time, methods, and subjects of inquiry, which definitely helped us convey our research better, which would’ve otherwise taken up so long of our time. We also referred to the TV shows and journals we referred to since they also played an important role in forming our speculation.
I personally believe that I have learnt a lot from this collaboration in terms of skills, application etc. which I would carry further ahead in my own personal research.