The above is an overview of feedback I provided for the following Digital Artifacts, https://platzerpress.wordpress.com/2023/03/17/sea02-pitch/, https://aminapowditch.wordpress.com/2023/03/17/presentation-pitch-sustainable-fashion/, https://lilscano.wordpress.com/2023/03/16/sustainability-in-the-exhibition-making-industry/. I’m not tech native so bear with me.

What has the peer review process taught me?

By reviewing others work and reflecting on their process, I can utilise this information in my own work. Through the task of exploring others work, I was given the opportunity to ask questions about their DA’s and formulate ideas and feedback with Decarbonisation centric lens.

The feedback provided to me was concise and directly answered many of my burning questions that I had when I pitched. How am I displaying my own work through mediums and which one are effective at reaching a certain audience? I was particularly curious and thankful to be walked through some ideas around different socials platforms as this is not a strength of mine.

What do I consider to be good feedback?

Peer reviews are naturally unbiased and objective and offer insights beyond my own lens. With this in mind I critiqued my peers through the rubric of Digital Artifact outline and my feedback was mostly checking there was a clear connection to the concept of Decarbonisation. I consider good feedback to constructive, positive and to be capable of provoking reroutes or new ideas in the targets thinking.

How has this provoked critical reflection in my own digital artifact?

I particularly enjoyed being directed to new sources of information. Many brains offer alternative perspectives and this is why I don’t deny A.I’s presence (taken with a grain of prompting). The BCM think tank is a wealth of knowledge that has expanded my neural loops and aided in simplifying my process! Overwhelm equals paralysis in my case so I appreciate the thoughtful, objective feedback provided by 4 of my peers. Decarbonisation is a mammoth task, many hands won’t even make light work of this. In fact even if we start growing and sinking carbon drenched kelp today, it would be like comparing a fart to a hurricane. Our agriculture industry is a massive greenhouse emitter, so I’ve decided to narrow my focus into this and how seaweed can help reshape this and no you won’t hear me talking about how we need to feed seaweed to cows. Let’s just forget about beef eh.

In the same manner that earth has been giving us clear feedback that we need to stop punching ourselves in the head. I too, can chose to listen to the feedback provided thus strengthening my DA.