Power, the teacher, and midterm

Through discusses from the midterm as a result of both my group’s and other groups feedback, the idea of power/agency really was hit hard and became more understandable. Agency and giving power to the person was a topic I had grasped fairly well in prior weeks, it is a topic my group and I have explored. But viewing other projects and other ideas/concepts through the lense of people having the power, not the system or a select few, really set this idea down during the midterm presentations. A standard example of this being an way of life, based on how I raised, has a set example of following: going to school, graduating high school, going to university and graduating, getting a standard 9-5 job, work your way up the career ladder, and retiring around 65-70. This a model that I have followed up to now with getting a university degree but in the future after I graduate, is not a model I would like to follow. I had thought about breaking this system since starting studying at university, but the ideas of agency and power has opened my eyes to the many possibilities in which it can be applied to.

A quick comment that really stuck to me was a quick comment in Ariadna and Estrella-s midterm. Ari had said something along the lines of professors need a PHD and in the feedback either Pablo or Davide had said they didn-t have a PHD. This lead me onto a internal thought process about teaching and what is interpreted as a teacher. What is a teacher. What makes a teacher a teacher. A teacher is someone who teaches, that is clear. But in my opinion, that lacks any context. In my opinion, a teacher isn-t defined my the degree but by the context in which they are teaching. The context is the school or university setting. This is how I define a teacher because sometimes I help teach people how to use Rhino 3D or some of the machines in the FabLab. Despite the FabLab being in IE and some of my teachings of Rhino may be in the tower as well, these teachings are outside the standard educational system of someone of power infront of a person or people with less power typically confided in a 4 walled space called a classroom