Built at Week 12.
What this is for#
A bench is not a seminar and it does not work if people arrive empty-handed. The mark exists because the corpus is shared: your record becomes somebody else’s evidence, and the only quality control it has is the room.
What counts#
Bringing an artefact. Saying that somebody’s primary looks like a secondary
to you, and why. Accepting the same about your own without treating it as a
loss.
What does not#
Talking. Agreeing warmly. Attendance on its own — being present at twelve benches with nothing on the table is worth roughly nothing here, and that is stated plainly so nobody discovers it in week 12.
If you cannot attend#
Tell the convenor before the bench, and submit the artefact you would have brought. Benches cannot be made up, because the thing being marked is the effect you had on other people’s records, and that does not happen afterwards.
The spec
The brief poses the problem and leaves room for a response. The spec is the fixed part: what a marker checks. Some lines can be checked mechanically; the rest call for judgement.
- you arrive with an artefact at benches where the brief asks for one
- you have challenged at least one other person's verification level, on the record
- you have revised one of your own after being challenged
How it is marked
Marked across the twelve benches as a whole rather than week by week. The question is whether the room worked better because you were in it: did you arrive with an artefact, did you challenge a verification level that deserved challenging, and did you change your own record when somebody challenged yours.