Briefing the Guests
I have now prepared a briefing for the guests, below is what I sent to Anna Howard. I would like to experiment with breaking the talks down into sections, in response to my readings on dialogical spaces. Students will devise specific questions that fall within the sections.
- Share a recent project? (5 mins) Supporting Material?
A Project/Job that defined you? (5 mins) - A project you made in Uni/or aged 21? (5 mins) So they understand how you ended up where you are now!
Find your People? Tell us about your creative community – - How does this inform the work you make? (5 mins) Maybe Twos Care/
Future Anna – What’s Next? (5 mins) Maybe your MA work? - Studio Tracks Can you send us 5 tracks to add to our Studio Playlist?( We’ll add these to our Studio Tracks playlist!)
- It would be great to see some of the physical Supporting Material collection too? Just a few bits if feasible?
Briefing the Students
Next step was to gather student questions for the guests. I introduced the event to the students in class one week before the event. We were on deadline with their publications project, so it was a busy time.
I shared the flyer I had made, along with this Miro Board for them to contribute to as a Pre Session Task’
Pre Session Tasks
Here is a To Do List of what we’d like you complete before next Thursday 21st for the World Cafe industry talks event:
- Research our guests
- Read the Guest Bios and click through all the links
- Add at least 1 question to the Miro board, with your name at the end
- Allow 20 minutes for this task
I introduced the speakers, and included prompts to guide the students, in the form of Key Words. I explained the sections, and their role populating them with questions.
keywords: networking, community, processes, skills, jobs, free work, paid work, collaboration, audience, publishing, research, platforms, client, pitch, fail, succeed,
burn out, friends, fear, goals….
Practical things
- I have also confirmed 3 students to help on the day, to support event production and give thoughts on the room set up.
- Experiment with chairs in a circle layout, inspired by fishbowl, but use Miro to enhance participation, break down hierarchies between speaker and audience
- Can the speaker be on the same level, so they present from the middle of the circle rather than the lectern thing? Ideally we need a wireless remote , so they can click through slides)
- Dress the room so it has a cafe table vibe, softer, it feels like a chat with a relatable older mentor (the speaker) have music etc