The document outlines strategies for effective collaboration, emphasizing the importance of clear goal setting and understanding the dynamics of team interactions. It encourages teams to communicate openly, define their individual skills and interests, and make decisions collectively. Additionally, it includes a structured workshop with interventions aimed at creating visual projects collaboratively.

1. working with
other people
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collaboration
working with
other people
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collaboration

2. Be very clear about the ultimate goals
you have for your collaborative
project.
Process v Product?

3. Be very clear about the ultimate goals
you have for your collaborative
project.
When does it need to be finished?

4. Be very clear about the ultimate goals
you have for your collaborative
project.
How will you know it's finished?

5. Be very clear about the ultimate goals
you have for your collaborative
project.
Write down your goals in the greatest detail
you possibly can, then sort them and list them
in order of their importance to you.

6. Be very clear about the process goals
you have for your project.
How will you and the (other) people interact?

7. Be very clear about the process goals
you have for your project.
Systems for decision making

8. Be very clear about the process goals
you have for your project.
Will there be a single leader? Chosen how?
Will you skip the leader idea, and make
decisions by consensus, or by majority rule, or
another way?

9. Communicate - Talk.
• Share
• Consult
• Open
• Responsibility
• Ownership

10. Building a team.
• Why be a team?
• What is the scope of project?
• Consider the aims / outcomes.

11. Building a team.
• Consider your team.
• What are your individual skills?
• What is your individual interest in the project?

12. Keep a track of your goals at all times.
• Ask - why did you decide to do this?
• Make and refer to lists daily while the project
is ongoing.

13. Do you sacrifice some of your
lower-priority goals in order to
achieve the higher-priority ones.
"I wanted this to be a mauve-y colour, and it's
too lilac.“
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"to finish this project as great friends,"

14. workshop

15. rules
a starting point from what you know
1 - on your own visualise a structure.
2 – as a group you now have to create
one structure.
3 – to do this either decide who has the
best idea and make that
or
combine many ideas to make one.

16. 4 – You have 20 minutes
rules
a starting point from what you know

17. intervention

18. oblique strategies
http://stoney.sb.org/eno/oblique.html
intervention

19. - using the instruction
5 - create a second structure that references
the first
- how do you choose what to do?
- which characteristics do you develop?
You have 10 minutes

20. intervention

21. - using the instruction
6 - now create a set/family with a minimum of 5 in the
collection.
- each individual element has to have some form of visual
connection but also be seen as separate objects
- the first two can be part of the set but you can make more if
you feel that they do not work as a group.
You have 15 minutes

22. intervention

23. - using the instruction
7 - now create a presentation to explain your work
You have 10 minutes

24. consider
- ideas around choice
- the rules you have created
- how do you feel about intuition?
- what was your role in the process?
- what you might take away from the process?
- how, if at all it might inform your own practice.