Tomorrow we are hoping to be a full complement, and so the first symposium. One of the classes has framed some questions, partly out of the design fiction reading, partly more general, and we will be discussing these questions as a group (Jasmine, Elliot, Brian and Adrian). At any point in this discussion you are very welcome and invited to put your hand up and ask questions, offer a point of view, or any other statement that is appropriate.

The symposiums are the reverse of the usual lecture in that we will be discussing the reading the week after they are set. This is because the model is we all do the reading, well all discuss and think about it (in blogs, in class, over coffee, with your friends), and then after having thought about it, then the symposium will talk about. In other words it is not the model of lecture to tell you what the reading is about, maybe do the reading but really don’t need to since the lecture told me what to think, repeat. To be the scratched record, you learn by meeting and wondering and making sense of what you don’t know. You do not learn by being told what to think, or of only reading things you already know.