TAKING AND MAKING NOTES

[Niklas Middrup]

Week 1:
- learning by deconstructing text --> Jacques Derrida
- develop knowledge through text and image
- learning is the focus of the class
- how to express yourself in words / take ownership of your work, your words
- reading a text at least 3 times to really understand it
- create a sociality in our group --> create a reality among ourselves
- technology has changed the nature of words
- “The Network Society”

[Niklas Middrup]

Week 3:

-Fishbowl allows us to be in touch with our CREATIVE INSTINCTS
-Sanjiv’s courses prepare students to navigate and negotiate Creative Action, Innovative Organizing, Cross-Cultural Insights, Design Thinking and Visual Spaces
-IMPACT, INNOVATION, and ENGAGEMENT
-Socially reflexive, Self-generating, and Self-sustaining text and images
-SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
-digital communication technologies  new unique forms of collectivity
-Learning and Innovation in the fishbowl
-individual self-reflection
-learning happens COLLABORATIVELY and creates SHARED VALUE or COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE
-APPERCEPTION (fully conscious perception): Looking at each other looking at each other, and looking at ourselves looking at ourselves.
-taking ownership and responsibility for our own texts
-“We’re all each other’s filter”  no judgement
-PROCESS IS OUR PRODUCT
-We should not work for guilt  important to work in the fishbowl on a regular basis
-it’s not about the content of the work itself, it’s about seeing EVIDENCE OF LEARNING
-we are ENHANCING each other’s work
-our world is constantly changing in the digital environment  confusion
-NON-LINEAR THINKING
-selection process
-creating a relation between two concepts: wordsymbolimageidea
-abstract sentence needs a felt-experience to become human and to start making sense
-experience of empowerment of creating text and image is what we strive for
-dictionary is our toolbox
-FRAMEWORK  how we experience things is different for all of us
-GOAL: GROWTH IN OUR MINDS

[Niklas Middrup]

Week 4
10/08/2019

-creating a society within our groups
-society context developing
-Bartlett, Ghoshal –> model of international growth; integrated responsiveness; global integration
- Integrated networking structure: developing a knowing and a knowledge about it
- Dynamic decision making
-learning starts with vocab, not just copy and paste
-importance of Google searches; should know authors as we know actors
-use letter reflections to give back to your group, add value by sharing our work in the fishbowl, DIVERSITY
-RELATION

Fishbowl Steps
1. Structure:
-we enter the unknown with a structure
-integrated networking structure

2. World Pool
-the bigger the dictionary, the better
-create a world pool as large as possible
-pool is a circle and we want to expand the borders
-always taking the words further

3. Re-structure
-if it makes sense to you it is perfect
-extract the essence, simplify
-it’s a process  reveal your thought-process; don’t only share the final product
-the restructured sentence is an abstraction

4. Felt-Experience
-has to fit the abstraction
-personalized paragraph about the restructured sentence
-banal

5. Interactive
–REDUCTIONIST TECHNIQUE an approach to understanding the nature of complex things by reducing them to the interactions of their parts, or to simpler or more fundamental things
-representational
-symbolic
-perception
-sharing our perceptional categories
-peripheral vision –> Margaret Catherine Bateson
-now it is interactive, doing it jointly
-9 words

6. Create a dichotomy (“Gegensätzlichkeit”)
-want to have completely different words
-as different as possible, not from the same category

7. Create a word pool again

8. Create a sentence from the word pool; jointly as a team
-stick with simple sentences
-start with a complex sentence and work your way down to a simplified sentence
 Ownership comes when you work through the text

9. Felt-experience again as a team

10. Repeat step 5 as a team  interacting again


11. -3 paragraphs
-insight
-understanding
-realization

-developing our expression

[Niklas Middrup]

Week 6

1) Integrated Networking Structures
2) Complex Adaptive Systems
3) Dynamic Decision Making
4) Unique Innovative Capabilities
 Characteristics of global businesses
Toni Morrison: “Word-work is sublime because it is generative. It makes meaning that secures our difference, our human difference - the way in which we are like no other life. We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.”
-social change is taking place in the transformation of communication
-development of visual reality
-Internet is backbone of Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC)
-individuation of work and the fragmentation of societies
-THE NETWORK AND VISUAL REALITY
- develop a flow of information  visual reality, a way of seeing and being in the world
-visual characterized by the instantaneous flow of word-images
-networks reflect distinctive realities that are individuations
-leaning about ourselves through the selection of words
-learning to create VALUE within our group
-FOCUS AND CURIOSITY
-taking our words further and further
-FELT-EXPERIENCE empowers my text
-ANECDOTE
-dichotomy: POSSIBILITY/PERSPECTVE
-stay close to text to get out of negative feelings

[Niklas Middrup]

11/5/2019
Improvements:
-give examples to EMPOWER MY TEXT  affecting other people
-creating something entirely new with the abstract sentence
-abstraction is theory and felt-experience is practical  have to go together
-raise the question: How so?  DEEP THINKING (google) , revisiting my work
-keep substituting the words until text appears naturally
-DECONSTRUCTING: substituting words to improve understanding
-destroy something and create something new
-meaning is always shifting and it is deferred
-papers are based on Spontaneity
-action writing, active learning, performative writing (google)
-in the beginning we started depicting on an empty
-FREEDOM AND INDIVIDUALITY is what drove us
 can pick any words & how we interpret it
-creating a form and style of writing; unique to ourselves based on freedom and individuality
-everybody’s paper is singular
-we only represent ourselves, nobody else
-ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM (google)
-compositions all over the place; no clear focus
-embody emotions
-tangled mess of words; developed feels of chaos
-anybody can do it but only myself can do it my way; nobody can copy it  exclusive signature technique
-writing directly from your unconscious and revealing hidden truths
-viewer is determining the message
-changed the way we think by going into our inner selves
-paper has layer of depths; it is the outcome of a deliberate outcome;
-PROCESS IS THE PRODUCT
-Anecdotal theory, Jane Gallop (google)
-Inspiration Excerpt, Jackson Pollock (google)

[Niklas Middrup]

1 minute selfie or 3 page paper due Tuesday 2pm

-write it down first
-talking about my story how I integrated and relate the fishbowl and the assignments (10+1)  pick out what I wanna talk about, most important things
-talk anecdotally
-3 of us were interacting and looking at global phenomena; talking about globalization; experience of the global phenomena;
-how did I experience it while performing the 10+1
- one quote from my work
-not promote the fishbowl subst
-talk about ourselves and how we created value
-talk like I am presenting to someone who does not know anything about the fishbowl

-enter the unknown  look inwards  came up with structure  creating/inventing your own truth