Welcome!

Hello everyone! My name is Hannah Baxter and I want to welcome you to our blog. I’ll keep you informed on the weekly progress of our project.

Meeting the client

We had our first client and advisor meeting on Wednesday. We discussed the goal of our project and initial ideas that we had. We also discussed constraints. As a team, we’re all really interested in a LBE deliverable. However, one of the constraints of the project is that if the project is LBE based it needs to be either easily replicable or easily transportable, as they want to also use it in a local high school space. Our client explained the culture iceberg to us. 

(Client meeting notes/iceberg picture)

Team Name

After the client meeting, we continued to brainstorm ideas, and worked on deciding a team name. We came up with tons of ideas, but decided that the following were our top three:

• Small Stories
• Intertwined
• Space of Ambiguity

After some discussion with our advisors, we decided on our official name. Allow me to be the first to introduce you to…

Team Intertwined!

Brainstorming

We spent Friday brainstorming and completing our composition box for Monday’s seminar. One of the exercises we did together, as suggested by our client, was social identity mapping. We each filled out a sheet with our social identities and went around talking about our answers. 

Subjects

Some of our subjects of interest were:

• Nonverbal language and differences between cultures
• Neurodiversity
• Global cultures created through instant communication
• Intersectionality
• Small stories to show overall ideas
• Archives
• Blending in

Welcome!

Hello everyone! My name is Hannah Baxter and I want to welcome you to our blog. I’ll keep you informed on the weekly progress of our project.

Meeting the client

We had our first client and advisor meeting on Wednesday at the Global Languages and Cultures Room (GLCR). We discussed the goal of our project and initial ideas that we had, as well as discussed constraints for the project. As a team, we’re all really interested in a location-based experience (LBE) deliverable. However, one of the constraints of the project is that if the project is LBE based it needs to be either easily replicable or easily transportable, as they want to also use it in a local high school space. Our project will live in a small room in the GLCR that has three projectors, so we feel that something on the LBE-side will fare well for us. Our client explained the culture iceberg to us. 

Team Name

After the client meeting, we continued to brainstorm ideas, and worked on deciding a team name. We came up with tons of ideas, but decided that the following were our top three:

• Small Stories
• Intertwined
• Space of Ambiguity

After some discussion with our advisors, we decided on our official name. Allow me to be the first to introduce you to…

Team Intertwined!

Brainstorming

We spent Friday brainstorming and completing our composition box for Monday’s seminar. One of the exercises we did together, as suggested by our client, was social identity mapping. We each filled out a sheet with our social identities and went around talking about our answers. We found this exercise to be very insightful. It was interesting asking the questions on the sheet to each other and seeing how our answers differed. We found that all of us valued different aspects of our social identities for different reasons. 

Subjects

Some of our subjects of interest were:

• Nonverbal language and differences between cultures
• Neurodiversity
• Global cultures created through instant communication
• Intersectionality
• Small stories to show overall ideas
• Archives
• Blending in

Thank you! See y’all next week!