Week 1 Crit: Orientation
The first crit --- what a note is, and why most of the feedback you've been given so far probably wasn't one.
22 February 2027
Bring#
Two pieces of feedback you’ve been given, on anything, ever: the one that actually changed what you did next, and the one that didn’t. Not the meanest one and the nicest one — the one that worked and the one that didn’t.
The crit#
We read a handful of these out loud, anonymised, and sort them into two piles before anyone says why. The pile that worked turns out to share three things, most weeks without much prompting: it names something specific, it says what would have to be different to be wrong, and it stays on the work. The pile that didn’t share the opposite three. That’s the whole method for the semester — everything after this week is that claim tested against a new kind of work.
Leaves with#
A one-sentence definition of a note, written in your own words, that you’ll be asked to defend again in week 11 once you’ve tested it eleven times.
The spec
What you bring to the session. Written so a reader can tell whether it has been met without asking you.
- you can state, in one sentence, what makes a note different from a reaction
- you have named a note that didn't change what you did and can say what was actually wrong with it, not just that it stung
Teaching team
- Marisol Quaye — convenor
- Idris Fenn — tutor