Week 12 Session: Designing a Wait

Week 12. The studio week, where interventions are defended against the thesis rather than against a rubric.

17 May 2027

You present, and then you defend. The defence is not against a mark scheme. It is against the three clauses on the front page of this course, and the question in the room is which of them your intervention is acting on and whether you are comfortable with that.

Sharma is the closing reading because she will not let you treat speed as good and slowness as bad. Both are arrangements of people in time, and somebody is maintaining the arrangement. By now you should be able to say who, for your own work, without being asked twice.

Marks for the course are released this week and not before. Week 11 explains why and gives you the reading to argue with it.

In the workshop#

The studio runs as presentations with defence, and the defence is the assessed part. Twelve minutes each: your before and after, the technique you used, and the person it acts on. The room is instructed to ask the third question until it gets an answer.

But wait, there’s more#

A therapy hour runs for fifty minutes. The ten minutes are not slack, they are how a practitioner runs six sessions in a row without the sixth being worse than the first. The fifty minute hour is a wait designed into somebody else’s schedule so that the service stays even, which is the shape of almost everything in this course.