The student is able to initiate and develop a vision of value-driven innovations and the role of music in our society by analyzing topics in the music industry such as social sustainability, accessibility, leadership, music education and diversity (between groups and types of employees).
How I have accomplished the learning goal
Item 1
The first item that shows I have met the learning goal is the presentation for Our House. This presentation Is about the diversity in the dance music world. We found out that there are a lot of minorities in this scene that get no attention and are not appreciated fully. We created the concept Blindspot, this concept will make sure that everyone in this industry will be seen. In this case we are talking specifically about DJ’s. The concept entails that the DJ’s will be playing their music without being seen. If you decide to like their music you can go inside the building to find out more about the artist. This innovation will give the audience the possibility to only use the sense of hearing to find out If they like the artist or not. This way they will leave behind their judgmental issues through their sense of sight that they might have been brought up with or developed during the years. I believe this item contributes to the learning goal because it shows that we know the importance of helping out minorities in the industry and making sure that everyone is seen because of what they do and not what they look like. It created a bigger diversity between the artists and this is good because if you have a bigger representation of a certain minority on a festival there, the visitors from this minority might feel more safe and show up more.
Item 2
The second item that shows I have met the learning goal is the DGTL presentation we had. This presentation evolved from our research that we did on DGTL, we found that they already do a lot with the environmental sustainability but not social sustainability. We came up with the idea to focus our activation on diversity and equality, we believe that people that are not informed about something are most of the times the people that are judgmental, they are afraid of the unknown. With this activation it is the idea to let people walk through an exhibition with art work of people from minorities and different ethnicities, in the activation they will start of alone in the pictures and in the end they are portrayed all together. This will represent the inclusivity that is our goal to happen in the future. Inclusivity and diversity at festivals is important as festivals are supposed to be a safe space for everyone, with this activity we want to make sure that people are informed about everyone and their stories, this might make it easier for some to be open minded and accepting.
Item 3
The third item that shows I have met the learning goal is the crowd safety article written for English. For this assignment we could choose the subject we wanted and come up with a problem we had to research. The topic we choose was crowd management and the problem we were researching was that improper crowd management leads to deaths. The article includes our research on the problem and also three solutions that can be implemented to solve this problem. This subject is very important since it is all about the safety of your visitors, looking at what happened at Astroworld I don’t think I ever want anything like this to happen at my festival. Improper crowd management can lead to a lot of issues and possibly event deaths. This item shows I have met my learning goal because trough research I have created a vision with solution to show that this issue can be revolved and how to do it.
What I have learned
During classes I have noticed that music has a big influence on everyone in the world. There were a few things I thought were really inspirational and motivating to listen to. This was during the DGTL sustainability advice, a few groups in our class decided to focus their activation on deaf people that still wanted to attend a festival. Before they brought up this subject I had never thought about this and that those people actually want to join festivals. I was surprised that there are actual stages for people to not hear the music but feel the music. I have learned that music brings people together not only when you are hearing but also deaf, and not only deaf people but every person in the world. For me this is another motivation on wanting to work in this industry and making people happy with the music that is played together with a great inclusive experience.
What went wrong
There are a lot of topics and angles I fail to think about when looking at the organization of a festival. During the year I have gained a lot of knowledge but still made a lot of mistakes by being short sighted and more on the logical side of things. Some ideas and insights some of my classmates thought of during projects failed for me to see them as a possibility since they in my eyes where not logical. This caused some discussion and made it that both of us had to adjust our vision. Working in a group with people that have different visions, values and ethnicities can be difficult, everyone has to step out of what they are comfortable with to come to an agreement on what to include, this can cause some friction. I also think this is a nice thing since everyone will be more motivated and learn something from the individual you are working with.
What I still want/ need to learn
Sometimes I have trouble putting all the information that I have obtained into something creative. A lot of the times in a project I have all the information and some good ideas on what to do with it, but can not come up with some creative innovative ideas. Most of the times when I work together with someone we will come to great ideas, but I can not do it that well on my own. I want to learn on how to build all the information I have and found from research into something that can be seen as a great reliable idea. This entail I want to tap more into my creative side to give the vision I have an actual tangible result.
Documents and files that show I have met the learning goal
Item 1 – Our House presentation
Item 2 – DGTL presentation
Item 3 – Crowd safety article