Isabelle discussing the unstudio, what happened, how it happened, and what was made.

“All things equally exist, but they do not exist equally”

Be good to return to that.

Michael notes that the unstudio was a ‘freeing class’. That’s an interesting, and really good, observation. Things to hang on to. How much you’ve actually learnt so far (you did talk for a considerable time about quite a lot of different things). That you can translate this into an action that looks forward to wonder about something. This is the pleasure of just learning, and the pleasure of learning intrinsically, for its own sake. Not for a job, not for a mark. Intrinsic pleasure, doing it because you know how to get value from doing it, is the most powerful form of motivation there is. (It underwrites every elite athlete, great musician, writer and so on. All started doing what they do because they enjoyed it intrinsically. The rewards only came much, much later.)

Thomas notes what he learnt from his, and seeing all the other ontographs that were made.

Michael (as a teacher these are those moments that surprise, I thought our class Wednesday was, well, struggling, perhaps it was, but to have even one person have this experience, it’s a big deal) has his understanding of his practice in relation to creativity turned on its head. And Jacob is coming up with useful answers to what this studio might be about. As I said in week one, you’re at university and as far as I’m concerned this is the last chance we (teachers) get to actually change how you think about thinking, things, the world, yourselves, for the better. If nothing else, I am a disruptor of what you bring in to the class. You should leave this studio different. Not knowing more (that’s easy to do), but thinking differently.