Week 8 Lab: The screenshot workshop

Week 8 lab, compose the photograph the setup exists for, and start drafting its defence

12 April 2027

The lab where the setup finally sits for its portrait, and where the Defence begins.

Before the lab#

Bring two screenshots: your setup staged as if for r/unixporn, and the same desktop as it actually looks on a Tuesday.

In the lab#

We treat the composed frame as a designed object: framing, staging, what to leave out, what a staged terminal is quietly claiming. Then you list every deliberate choice the image shows and start writing the defence of each. The gap between your two screenshots is the most useful thing in the room.

Afterwards#

You leave with the artefact the course has been building toward and the first draft of the argument that has to accompany it.