I’m writing this four days later than I intended. Better late than never, no? I got completely swept up thinking about our new projects.

We have a group curation project, we had the choice of three topics – Botanicals, Barbara Sawyer and Oral Histories. I decided to go for the Oral Histories as my first choice and Barbara Sawyer as my second. So, here I am now thinking about how we can present an Oral Histories project where the archive is a stack of digital files. My brain is buzzing with thoughts.

I also have ideas for my solo assignment which is a 3,000-word essay and a symposium. I have an idea but before I get carried away (I am of course already down the rabbit hole, Oops, again). I should run this by the tutors to make sure I’m not going to off topic. Then again maybe I can if I keep thinking critically.

The critical thinking side of things is not coming naturally to me, but I’m starting to see a difference in how I’m digesting text. Reading and writing more is helping with that as well as discussing the texts with my course mates. Sharing my thoughts helps.

The texts have been thought provoking, I spent most of my time looking at Marshall McLuhan, he seems to have predicted a lot of how technology developed. His thinking is fascinating and accessible, which also helps!

The big one for me this week was reading George Yudice’s Cultural Diversity and Cultural Rights. It’s definitely piqued my interest and makes me want to dig further into this idea of Cultural Rights…who knows…maybe it’s the start of something?

Arrivederci

Franki