SLOP4146: The Devastating Note
Feedback that changes the work --- specific, falsifiable, unsentimental --- practised across art, code, prose and criticism, since one domain alone isn't a method.
What you will do
Six times this semester you give or receive a note --- written feedback on a specific piece of work, in a different domain each time: a drawing, a pull request, a paragraph, a proposal under blind review, a restaurant, and the brief that assigned all of it. The rest of the weeks apply, revise or turn the same method on itself. The domain changes; the method doesn't. By week 12 you'll have a portfolio of notes across six domains and a clear answer to whether the method actually travels, because you'll have tested it yourself, in the room, on work that mattered to whoever made it.
Who it is for
Anyone who has to give feedback on someone else's work and has noticed that most of what passes for feedback is a reaction with a compliment sandwiched around it. There's no studio-art or software prerequisite --- the crits rotate across enough domains that no single background gives you an advantage for more than a fortnight. What it does assume is that you're willing to write a claim specific enough that someone could prove you wrong, and sit in a room while they try.