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SUTDWhat is this? We're documenting our journey for future users and builders of this movement. Take this chance to record not only case studies, design decisions or strategy, but our hopes and ideals for the future.
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We wanted to be different. We all joined SUTD excited to be part of a world-class, collaborative community of learners, innovators, and explorers. As the University grew, it became more organizational, more hierarchical. Somewhere along the way, I'd seen even the best and brightest lose their spark; jaded, exhausted, and tired for a number of reasons. We lost some of the best people.
I sat on these thoughts for months; what could a mere undergraduate do? The urge to do something about it was growing, perhaps only suppressed by curriculum deliverables (ha!). In April 2018, I started a simple repository on GitHub. The idea was for students to collaborate and share knowledge with each other on a public platform.
What started as a humble attempt to try and cope with this dissonance, soon rallied other members of the community - a #metoo movement of sorts that allowed these undercurrents to surface en masse.
Around that time, a group of students (now known as Working Title) had gathered (independently!) to make the discourse on policy and culture public. We started conversations with members of the community - students, faculty, staff and management - with the vision of developing a collaborative, familial culture. Strategy wasn't everything - we wanted to grow this culture authentically and for the community to own it.
Now things are picking up speed, and there's much to get acquainted with in terms of community building and culture formation. If we just hold on (preciously!) to the idea of SUTD that we all fell in love with, then I think there'll always be sparks to re-ignite, flames to be re-kindled.
@joel
ISTD Class of '19
We pitched this pedagogy deck which conceptualised what OpenSUTD would be.
Now this warrants it's own section because it gave us a direction as to what SUTD would support.
We pitched this platform deck. The meeting went really well as it turned out that the conceptual alignment was excellent. In fact, he was basically pitching to us a version of OpenSUTD before we managed to finish presenting our slides.
Here's a link to our latest meeting minutes.
We need to get everyone acquainted with what we're doing - no point creating a culture without people. Broad sketches are in this release planning deck by Joel, it sets forth the direction we hope to take based on what we have learned so far.
How do we move forward? We did some research.
"Open and incomplete systems often require facilitation,
a highly unintuitive method to strategists working in pre-
dictable and closed systems, but a routine task for designers.
In strategy, planning is kept short and based on optimization
and full knowledge of the problem space. Facilitation for
change instead demands clarity on the personal motivations
of stakeholders, while never fixing on a goal definitely. If
open source culture is indeed a possible direction for existing
closed hierarchies, perhaps a new evolutionary line of the
institution will emerge in the foreseeable future, one that
places the community and the ideals of change and design
at the center of its development and progress."
In short, the idea is to have several projects grow organically and front the OpenSUTD movement:
Here's our initial drafts for the SAC Student Rules.
Our inspiration:
We keep getting feedback that there is trouble ensuring continuity between batches of Fifth Row leaders.
So here's an effort to document the pulsecheck process and finance guidelines.
After evaluating the initial draft by Joel, Yustynnn volunteered to build the initial folder architecture for notes on SUTD's modules.
But we also have student contributed material:
Over Winter '18-'19, IAP courses were conducted under the OpenSUTD banner. Having the processes documented and open gives anyone who wants to conduct a course a point of reference on which to fall back on!
OpenSUTD as the one-stop conduit into all activities for Discovery Week.
Current concept is in development. You can watch the progress here.
@tlkh and team are in the process of building a web platform to act as a frontend for the current GitHub-based OpenSUTD. Watch, or contribute to their progress here.
Tara: "Ultimately, you can make it about the reason you came here in the first place. I mean that's really all you can do, right? You just have to say to yourselves: I came here for this, and I'm gonna make it this thing, and no matter how many obstacles they put in my way, I'm just gonna keep trying to make it this thing."
If reading this resonated with you at all, join us. Drop us an e-mail at {joel_huang, qingze_hum, timothy_liu}@mymail.sutd.edu.sg, speak to us personally, or raise issues here!
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