The RO Studio

Language and Relationships
Vulnerability
Empathy, Motivation, Dishonesty
How to talk to little girls

2013 7月
Adult?
Teaching people how they should treat you
Work, But No Jobs

2013 6月
How Slavery Is Corrosive to All Human Beings

2013 5月
The Damage of the Damsel in Distress
What do tests test for?
Men, the emotional sex
Squaring Accounts with our Parents

2013 4月
Do Friendship and Money Mix?(討論逐字稿)
404: Relationship Error

2013 3月
The Market Society
What makes somebody an asshole?
The Art of Asking
Is College Necessary?

2013 2月
Emotional Labor
The Tide Economy

2013 1月
Getting Old
Implementing an Interest-free economy: Currency reform
How economic inequality harms societies

2012 12月
JAK: Interest-free Banking in Sweden
The Basis of Trust
Ants, Control, Hierarchy (討論逐字稿)

2012 11月
Kara
Jealousy, Envy, Harmony
Harmony & Conflict, Experience & Knowledge
Apathy & Compliance, Dignity & Participation (討論逐字稿)

2012 10月
Boundaries, Trust, Consent (討論逐字稿)
Boundaries, Trust, Community (討論逐字稿)
What is Sustainability? (課堂筆記)
How Cuba Survived Peak Oil (討論逐字稿)

2012 9月
How Cultural Narratives Influence Perception
Coding a Better Government
Professional or Human Being? Can we be both?

2012 8月
Competition (討論逐字稿)
SuperBetter (課堂筆記)
Aliens Vs. Robots (課堂筆記)
The Power of Being Embarrassed

2012 7月
Self-Nurturing as the Ultimate Leadership (討論逐字稿)
Connection is Why We're Here.
Don't Regret Regret
The Courage to Live (討論逐字稿)
Discovery + Mentoring = Education
Embracing Failure (討論逐字稿)
How to Learn? From Mistakes.

2012 6月
Boundaries (討論逐字稿)
Child-Driven Education
Bring on the Education Revolution (討論逐字稿)
A Wonderful Country for Positive Thinkers (討論逐字稿)
Totnes Transition Town
New Economic Visions: Currency
(討論逐字稿)

2012 5月
Austerity, Solution or Problem? (討論逐字稿)
A Radical Tactical Shift (討論逐字稿)
Women's Values (討論逐字稿)

What do you want to talk about at the Rethinking in English discussion?

Enter your ideas for new discussions at the RO Studio.

Go to see the results, vote on which articles you are interested to discuss in the future, or add to other peoples' ideas on the response spreadsheet.

I will check this regularly and put the ideas as new discussions here on the blog!

Recent topics at the RO Friday Discussion

May 2017
Teaching Design for Change
Cooperate or Not?
Creativity

April 2017
Is it ignorance or discrimination?

March 2017
Work, Leisure, Play
Maybe you should just be single
Debt Culture

February 2017
Do you think other people can be trusted?

繪圖說故事

「繪圖說故事」本課程的重點是學習如何藉由自己所畫的圖畫說一個故事。在這個過程中，我們透過批判性思考，與密切觀察現實世界，來發展自己成為藝術家。整個課程下來，學生有機會從創作者的角度，能更了解自己，同時也能學習如何觀察、表達和描述。
一堂課2.5小時，分成三個部分: 人物畫、故事發展與整併。
在「人物畫」的部分，我們輪流擔任模特兒用炭筆畫人物畫、人的面部表情、與絨毛動物玩具，目的是訓練觀察力，與抓出比例，怎麼準確抓住細微的實像。我們也同時學習如何以批判的眼光，來看待自己與他人的作品，藉以彼此相互協助發展自己。
在「故事發展」的部分我們探討情感表達及不同手勢所傳達的意義，我們也磨練講故事的技巧和策略。進入「整併」的過程時，我們會把當天所學，整併創造成一個成品。這麼做幫助我們重新整理當天的經歷。課程結束前，我們會進入一個更大的任務，也就是色彩的運用。藝術作品中，不同的色彩代表不同的意義，我們賦予作品顏色，結合說故事的技巧，完成一幅連環漫畫或一部書。

Link:詳細課程介紹

如果您對課程有興趣, 可以與我們聯絡。五個人即可成班。課程會在我們中山北路的空間或其他您選擇的地點舉行。新竹以北都可以。
聯絡email: zmezmi@gmail.com 手幾: 0921613420 (Angela)

「Graphic Storytelling」 is first of all about learning how to tell a story through drawing. Along the way we also develop ourselves as artists through critical thinking and close observation of the real world. At the end of the course the student should have a better understanding of themselves as creators, and acquired skills in observation, expression and narration.

The 2.5 hour session is divided into three parts, Figure Drawing, Story Development and Consolidation. In Figure Drawing we take turns drawing live models and stuffed animals to practice skills of observation, proportion and accurate notation of details. We also learn how to look at our own and others’ work with a critical eye, in order to learn how to develop our own work and help others develop theirs. In Story Development we investigate emotional and gestural expression, as well as story telling techniques and strategies. And finally in Consolidation, each day we take what we have learned and try to create a finished product, which helps us bring together practice and experience of the day’s lessons.
At the end of the course we embark on a bigger project, incorporating color which of course makes it more difficult, in order to use everything we learned about storytelling and expression to make a finished story in panel or book form.

Dispossessed Workshops

Come join the five Dispossessed Workshops at the RO Studio!

The discussions will happen on the following dates, all Tuesdays at 8pm.
Address and Map

May 6 Freedom, Responsiblility, Initiative
May 13 Owning or Using
May 20 Possession: Luxury, Scarcity, Consumerism
May 27 How Boundaries Work
June 3 The Structure of Power

Links take you to the discussion wiki, where you can see the discussion guide for each workshop and also transcripts from the Becoming workshops held in April.

Our discussion will be centered around the book The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin. Here's a link to the entire book in English--it'll be extremely helpful to the discussions for you to read the book.

The main topic of our discussion is community, or kind of the ethics of community, as it relates to things like freedom, responsibility, initiative, boundaries, ownership and power. We'll be using the anarchist society described in The Dispossesed as a kind of lens to focus the discussions.

“The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!” asserts a character in The Dispossessed, to which the main character Shevek replies, “Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social animal, are those who are most social. In human terms, the most ethical.”

Is our ethical understanding of community what makes us strong as a community?

A community is formed of individuals, and these individuals make choices out of the ethics of their own conscience, or not. However they choose, they are interacting, cooperating and sharing with the others in the community, and so their actions impose obligations on themselves and also the others in the community. How does this all work out? What is the fairest arrangement of community, for both the group and the individual?

Come and let's figure it out together!

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Recent Topics at the RO Studio's Friday Discussion

What do you want to talk about at the Rethinking in English discussion?

Recent topics at the Rethinking in English discussion on Fridays

Recent topics at the RO Friday Discussion

繪圖說故事

Dispossessed Workshops

討論的檔案(日期類) Archive of Discussions (by date)

討論的檔案(題目類) Archive of Discussions (by topic)

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