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Contemplation Room

23/10/2018 0 Comments

Last meeting for 2018

​Date 28/11/2018
 
Recent Activity
Team met today to discuss further steps of the project development. It seems that there are two streams going at the same time:
  1. Space with more "loungy" feel, Jacob will work on updating the Lounge with plants , games, photos or pictures on the wall
  2. Contemplation space with more spiritual aspect
 
Pillow fort can be a movable space and it is relatively easy to recreate it in different spaces at university. Contemplation space  is more difficult to move and create a simplistic space. Victoria University got gifted an old ambulance that they use as a prayer spaces. There's been some controversy over this space.
 
Action points from the meeting:
  1. Revisiting a space exploration - look into the "high traffic" spaces, e.g. The Library - everyone
  2. Speak to Anita Frost re the spaces available -  Mark???
  3. Check with Governance Group who would pay for the space - Mags
  4. Explore which concept to bring forward and what questions around spirituality to ask students. - Mark
  5. Work on a brief of what are the objectives of the project
  6. Connect with exec and students about the project - Jacob
  7. Trial some of the questions and space idea (Who Box) with students during Student Services Expo. - 2nd week of classes. Liaise with Shannon about it. - Mark????
 
Next meeting: week of the 30th January. 

Blanket Fort Reflection

Over week 12 (hand-in week) the project team set up a trial of a blanket fort at the back of the Campus Co-Lab space.

​They set up a feedback board where students could indicate their mood going in and out of the space. The forts existence was advertised by pillow posters going up in two locations on campus and on Campus Co-Lab's and MAWSA's social media pages. Materials were bought from the secondhand shop including an arm chair, sheets and pillows. 
 
Each day we changed the dots on the board to see if different day had more engagement 
  • Monday = blue 
  • Tuesday = read 
  • Wednesday = Purple 
  • Thursday = orange 
  • Friday = yellow 
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Some of the project team (Jacob, Mark and Daniel) met with Mags and Marie today to reflect on the blanket fort trial and talk about what to do next. The Blanket Fort was a great first prototype and the whole team felt like it proved you could transform peoples moods with spaces. The team was really happy with the trial, but there were questions bought up if this was doing what the contemplation room original purpose intended to do. To reflect on the Blanket Fort the team completed a SWOT analysis: 
 
Strengths 
  • Closed off but still part of the room 
  • Location of the fort enable it to stand alone with nobody actively looking after it 
  • Engagement with the fort and feedback board was good 
  • The fort really tapped into the needs of students during week 12 
  • It provided emotional first aid instantly and with no effort needed by the receiver (I.e. they didn't have to read anything) 
  • Material used work really well 
  • Value outweighed the cost of material 
  • Material could be used again 
  • The fort is a versatile size which could expand or be smaller 
  • Chaplaincy is happy with the outcomes 
  • Feedback system worked 
  • The space is multipurpose for both groups and individuals 
  • Pocket (the cat) loved it, bringing more people in 
  • New people were bought into the space 
  • Not corporate vibe 
  • Comfortable 
  • Set up was easy and didn't take too long 
  • Blanket fort is universal = childhood, fun, safe 
  • It was safe 
  • People stayed in it for long periods of time 
  • Transformative 
 
Weaknesses 
  • Only temporary 
  • Block light out from the Campus Co-Lab space / takes away from the space 
  • Not everyone who used it feedback 
  • Don't know which type of students used it 
  • Not really a contemplating space 
  • Not an active space 
  • Not 100% central location 
  • Didn't reach everyone 
  • It wasn't an unplug space 
  • Territory 
  • Did people come for pocket or the blanket fort? 
 
Opportunities 
  • Communication of the kaupapa / use of space 
  • Come up with what the contemplations room's ultimate purpose is / guidelines 
  • Bring contemplation room thinking to the lounge 
  • Make sure the space is in a place that isn't college specific 
  • Start at the start of the year so you have buy-in from first years. Set the tone from the beginning 
  • Be less corporate, be something else, be an escape 
  • Have multiple spaces 
 
Threats 
  • No Funding 
  • No new people using it 
  • Not having a permeant space  
  • Multiple agenda's not working together 
  • One space can't do everything ​
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22/10/2018 0 Comments

Prototype budgeted

10/10/18
Project team met today to talk about how what they will need and how they will do the prototype next week during week 12. Mags and Jacob are heading out to the secondhand shop tomorrow morning to pick up sheets, pillows, blankets and throws for the construction of the pillow fort. 

Mags, Debbie, Jacob and Marie will set up the prototype on Monday morning along with a board that will collect how people are feeling when they enter vs how they feel when they leave.
 

​This prototype will measure how people are effected with a space like a pillow fort and if space can transform peoples moods.

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22/10/2018 0 Comments

Prototype planned

26/09/18
The contemplation project has recently completed surveying students to gather context around their assumptions around their project. 

Their online survey had 25 responses and their paper survey had 17. The survey asked how students were, how anxious / calm they felt, what things they do to currently unwind, what they would expect of a space that recharges and energises, their year and study. 

The traveling board was also put out to gather feedback on expectations and how people currently deal with stress. 

Today the facilitator meet with Jacob (VCD 3rd year student) and Mark to talk through the survey results and how that could translate into a prototype.  

Jacob had recently executed a project in collaboration with VUWSA during their event Sex in the Hub. Jacob was involved with setting up a blanket fort which students could go into to listen to one of six headphones which played stories from students of sexual violence. (See images below) 

Jacob and Mark agreed that we could replicate the blanket fort (without the stories) on the Massey Campus in week 12. This blanket fort is an opportunity to test an option that students are indicating they want in the feedback.  
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NEXT STEPS 
Jacob will get together a proposal of how the blanket fort could be constructed and any costs involved. Mark will explore if there is any acoustic panelling we can borrow from the music school.

Current thinking is that the blanket fort will be set up in the Co-Lab space at the back. There is also have an opportunity to conduct another prototype during exams which contrasts the blanket fort. 

​In the next meeting (10th October) this idea for a prototype will be discusses as well as how we can measure it’s success and what a contrasting prototype could be.  
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22/10/2018 0 Comments

Survey set up

30/08/18
  1. The team shared their findings about different places and what the rooms look like 
  2. Group decided on the survey questions. Survey will be shared by the team through their social media e.g. Platform, MAWSA as well as on the travelling board and on paper survey. Paper surveys to be distributed in the library, the lounge and health and counselling survey. 
  3. Team decided to meet a week later to have a walk through different spaces and see what potentially might be available.
Action point: Anna to collate survey questions and create a google forms ​
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22/10/2018 1 Comment

Initial meeting

16/08/18
Yesterday the facilitator met with the project group for the initial project meeting. The initial meeting was approached slightly differently than usual because of the amount of people attending and because the project was a joint project between two Massey services (Chaplaincy & Student Health and Counselling). 

The facilitator prepared an agenda for the meeting that would help bring everyone onto the same page, give a clear context of the idea, establish key elements to the project and give a clear direction of where to from here.


From the submission of the project there are a couple of different agenda's coming through. To prevent this from becoming an issue further down the project each person at this meeting was asked to introduce themselves, say why they are here, and say one aspiration they have for the project. 

 Actions established 
The team established to meet up fortnightly and next meeting they would have the beginnings of a survey to put out to students, along with some research into where their idea is happening at and outside of Massey.
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    About the project

    To provide a generous and caring community space for all Massey students. This space will focus on giving the individual a chance to become silent, to be mindful and to have a space to relax purposefully. This will also aim to be an educational space focusing on emotional regulation, managing stress and spiritual enlightenment.

    Project initiators 
    ​Student Health & Counselling and Chaplaincy
    Get involved
    colab@mawsa.org.nz
    Facilitator/s
    Mags Chalecka-Harris
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