The workshop for week two had quite a few interesting things in store for me. If you haven’t seen my previous post, I showcased my final ‘creative self-portrait’ with all the components of each medium. In this weeks workshop, we had to present it – but in an unorthodox way. Instead of presenting to the entire class, we split-off into small groups. Within each group, every person would take turns presenting their work.
The listeners of the group would then have to provide their feedback to the presenter, so that they could better evaluate their work. But this is where it became ‘unorthodox’. Instead of each person saying what they really thought about the work presented to them, each person represented a ‘hat’ from the ‘six thinking hat’ system. If you aren’t familiar with this system – simply put, it’s a tool used for group discussions that help to give feedback from multiple perspectives. Each hat represented a different perspective. We used four out of the six hats, which goes as follows:
