Week 11: Practicum — Performing the Exaggeration

Nine weeks of cataloguing other people's violations; this week you commit one, on purpose, under supervision, and describe it honestly afterward.

4 October 2027

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Every prior week studied a violation someone else committed. This week asks you to commit one yourself — deliberately, visibly, and exaggerated well past the point of plausible accident — in a supervised Drop-in Session where the “public” is your own cohort and the stakes are a mark, not a stranger’s day.

The exaggeration matters. A convincing, undetectable violation teaches you nothing about the norm; an obvious, committed one forces the room to react in real time, and that reaction is the data. This week is about performing something you would never actually do to a stranger, and being honest afterward about what it revealed.

Outline#

• why exaggeration, not subtlety, is the point of the practicum
• what “under supervision” changes about consent, safety, and what’s on the table
• performing a technique from any prior week, live, in front of the cohort
• the Practicum isn’t separately marked, but the debrief you give afterward is exactly the kind of first-hand evidence Assignment 2 and the Final Exam expect you to be able to produce — see the Drop-in Session page for logistics