13. Learning by Making and Doing: Solo Project - Part 4 - Reflections

For reflection, I realized some missed chances of collaborative learning that can help facilitate engagement, connection and openness to other perspectives. Also, I was not sure from the actual effect whether the chaotically arranged chairs as spatial elements were helping or disturbing the process. The biggest reflective question was whether the process was dialectical enough, especially up to the final point: Did the previous elements come together to bring another layer of effects/impacts that made the participants more reflective?

Additionally, the making of the final video (editing collected footages from online sources), which I consider to be dialectically important step five and six, was an important learning for me. The video showed footages of oppression and war over the world, both in contrast to and echoing what the participants witnessed on the stage here and now at the individual level, was expected to bring a dialectical impact regarding the micro and the macro, the personal and the socio-political, being bystander/onlooker/spectator and participant/actor, resemblance and difference, etc. During the making process, especially in the collecting footages as materials to be edited, I got to know more about political situations in other places in the world, besides what I experienced in Hong Kong a few years ago.

(The World of Bullying and Bystanders -- The ending video edited from collected footages)