"The tail is the hardest part to peel"

With all due respect, that’s right, organization couldn’t show physically a lot of works. But there are other ways of showing works and not that expensive. But, ok, they wanted to display a physical exhibition in Berlin. To know that a piece is in Berlin and that it can be viewed in a gallery is quite a thrill for many students. So if it’s something that special it’s hard to consider it and behave as if it’s just another task. It’s now something that not all can aspire because of the limited space hence one more reason for organization to use the best criteria in selection.

I see the participation on that exhibit as the perfect corollary to sum up the lived experience in Design 101 not just another ordinary weekly task. As for the persons who discovered the course in the last weeks, 3-2 weeks ago, and are catching up, or for other persons who are just now about to discover it, I have to ask: What about the initial “journey”, “the collective exploration” concept? What about the “community” concept? Aren’t those pillars of the course experience? Aren’t those pillars of any MOOC and as important as the transmission of knowledge? Then, wow do organization legitimate selecting works these persons will create? Out of good will? Out of sympathy? Isn’t Design 101 a course with an academic team/real university to back it up? Would this kind of detour be something acceptable if this wasn’t an online course? Organization is stretching the possibilities because they can, because it’s nice, but in fact this means just decreasing Design101 standards. Look, let me show an example of compromise. To access the exhibition students should have done at least a percentage of the tasks (and knew about this rule at the beginning of the journey, of course. )

Just think for a minute about the reason why organization have different certificates to give away. The reason why is because organization decided  torecognize that those who worked more deserve more. I know that this was the 1st edition of Design 101 and that possibly organization were “absolute beginners”. Maybe on a 2nd edition it can see this questions differently. And I also know that all things considered there may not be so many participations for the blue flowers show. Oh, and the reason why I and so many students are upset is because we like Design101. I would worry a lot if we were all silent…