19 Nov
2024
19 Nov
'24
10:32 p.m.
Also sending my apologies, I need to go OOO in the morning.
Jan
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On November 19, 2024 at 9:40 PM, Quinn Daley (quinn(a)fishpercolator.co.uk)
wrote:
Sending my apologies for tomorrow (I can probably only
do Fridays until
April) but I'll give this a proper read async on Friday and add any
thoughts I have.
On Tue, 19 Nov 2024, 13:43 Kim Foale, <kim(a)gfsc.studio> wrote:
> Heya all just a reminder we have a meeting in tomorrow at noon - zoom
> here
>
> https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84708264008?pwd=iaMMhdtol3bTbWibenAZho1avKHAwl.1
>
> I have a question for you all which is about how we go for work. So
> currently we are prob all tendering for the same jobs (if we are
> tendering at all) and are very reliant on the left economy at large to be
> producing enough work for us collectively (which is getting more and more
> iffy huh). Maybe theres better times for us to intervene in designing and
> delivering work together.
>
> This is confidential (i.e. please don't share off list) but I've been
> doing an intro consult with the Trans Learning Partnership and in the
> last session we boiled it down to 3 main user stories:
>
> [image: Screenshot 2024-11-18 at 15.44.05.png]
> Our goal is to get to something that can go directly in a funding bid.
>
> If I'm gonna shift GFSC more into this left-infrastructure role, I'm now
> realising maybe this is the time it would be good to involve other
> perspectives/ideas? Or at least open the door to anyone interested? Like
> maybe GFSC is now less interested in the build and more interested in
> helping shepherd these projects in and the relationship is less just
> studio-client and more about getting the balance right between engaging
> in existing political movements and doing the work? Not sure.
>
> Thoughts welcome either on this list or tomorrow. I can't pay you but if
> anyone did want to come to the final session next week with them where we
> are doing some "how might wes" against this do let me know, it's 1-4
next
> tue.
>
> (Obviously in this case its a trans group so I would prob want to partner
> with trans-led or trans-involving studios but I'm talking about the
> general principle here of how to put together a more community-oriented
> build team than this specific job as well!)
>
> Kim
>
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