1-1 with Sarah Hanaki #1

I recently met with Sarah H. to discuss Thesis topics and potential. I have chatted with Sarah before about other projects and appreciate her thoughts a lot, so I thought it would be nice to run through some of the things I’ve talked with Sarah R and Nun about with her.

I shared some project ideas with her, with the caveat that these might not be actual project ideas, but more just random “things” I could do that had to do with the topics I was thinking through. I don’t have an idea how to execute them or what they mean, they are just ideas that popped up in my head in the last few weeks.

• Technical gear paper dolls
• Barbie dream stuff // american girl doll?
• Poetry or haikus about how networks work
• Luxury hockey stuff
• Government issued survivor gear (super shitty and propaganda-y)
• Am I going to be okay?? Machine (magic 8 ball)
• a choreographed dance of org structure, business dealings, handshaking
• a manifesto
• fake sensor to find/uncover your true interests and passions on the internet?
• powerpoints that prove a point
• org chart chess (ceramics?)
• nerdy jocks *technical documents for sports…luxury?
• Get ready with me for the apocalypse
  • how i made this toothbrush
  • I made this network from old raspberry pis for my bf and I
  • Scavenging haul

We discussed some common themes of the ideas:

are you ready??? (overarching question)

• tactical
• decision making
• vigilance
• control
• protection
• choreography
• control

Sarah also suggested that I write out a do’s and don’ts list for my thesis because I had very strong opinions about how and in what conditions I wanted to use technology and what kind of tone I wanted to set with whatever the thesis was.