After developing our endless thoughts in miro respectively during the first half of the week, we inevitably invested a large amount of time making agreement on directions on Thursday.

I felt it necessary to ensure that each team member could fully understand what we are talking about, so that everyone can actually make contributions. Personally, the most difficult part was not about compromising with dissenting views, but getting clear of how the whole logic was developed.

To avoid being too idealistic, we decided to both propagate our ideology of “Jack” while emphasizing all practical problems currently hard to be fixed. We haven’t figure out how groups of problem should be, but probably we can follow up the method of raising questions introduced in Elizabeth’s workshop. 

Friday is my routine “gap day”. I visited Tate Modern and unexpectedly inspired by a “Gutai” artwork. Piercing the surface layer to reveal the underneath, the artist Shimamoto formed a contrast between “delicate paintwork and violent holes in its surface” to “reflect the disruption of Japanese culture” during 1950s. The setting of multiple layers and holes, from my perspective, might serve for our narrative of past, present, and future. I’d like to share it with my team next week.