I had my first SiP tutorial today, with John O’Reilly and another participant, Richard Parry. It was a very fruitful session and I am left with a lot to think about. The lively discussions gave me plenty of ideas, and themes came up that I want to consider more: e.g. the concept of ‘rewilding’ – brought up by Richard in a different context, but strongly resonates with me. It seems a good concept to translate and integrate into the approach I am working on. And John brought up that, rather than looking at the online experience as fragmentation, one could also look at it as a process of circulation and multitude and additionally that the whole concept of inside vs outside of bodies and spaces leads to the themes of enclosure vs spilling out. That really stimulated my thinking and I became aware that, possibly due to the time pressure, I am in danger of confirmation bias, just ‘proving what (I think) I know works’. It is important that I go wider, be more open to exploration and failure. Actually something I am telling students constantly – but then again: they have a year, full-time, whilst we have only about 2.5 months left and I have other jobs and projects on as well. So, it is important to be realistic about how far I can take this at this moment in time. John made a good suggestion: he said as both our projects have the potential to become quite expansive and long-term, maybe best to look at it like the development of a prototype: prototype and prototype testing during the SiP and then continue the project beyond that afterwards. That’s a helpful strategy of approaching things.