I’m so happy that we’ve finally got to this stage of the lectures, I just couldn’t help though to have a giggle at the lecture name’s relation to the failed Vegemite revamp ‘iSnack 2.0’.
However, our unlecture revamp was nothing like Vegemite’s! It wasn’t lame or preachy to tech literate young people, rather original and revitalising as the symphony of Vegemite and Cheezy spread intended to be.
I felt like a young person sitting in the audience of Q&A, with Adrian as Tony and no one as Sophie Mirabella or Christopher Pyne. If you had filmed today’s lecture in a similar vein, their would have been many close ups of enthused young people of diverse intellectual backgrounds (as a side note, I just hate it when they are discussing gay marriage on Q&A and the camera always tracks to the most mildly camp looking guy in the audience, who just so happens to be sitting next to another young male. They may well vote for Bob Katter’s Australia Party in the next election, stop visually typecasting Q&A cinematographers!) looking captivated and amused at the thoughtful commentary of the tutors.
[…] Holly enjoyed it, and yes, it’s very Q and A isn’t it? Patrick took away the comments from Brian and Adrian about experience design, the experience economy, and that is is what you need to develop and understand (to I guess partially alleviate Rebecca’s bleakness). Shannen took away the ways in which design fiction (let’s call it speculative thinking, as I think Elliot’s observation that we have to be able to imagine and envision the future as media makers is very astute, and Brian’s recognition that design fiction lets you think very differently, and creatively, about what counts as evidence as ways to shift it out of ‘design’ and into what we do) helps you think ahead, even three years, while William remains estranged. […]