Through a week long course within Emily Carr with Craig Badke and Samein Shamsher I explored the concept of Deep Time – a time that is based on geological and cosmic matters. Which makes humans very insignificant when looking at how old Earth or other celestial bodies are. I was able to rethink what we actually value as a group of temporary members in this infinite timeline – from which we can’t even grasp the immensity. I’ve been very aware of the problem that antropocene is causing, but this quote really highlighted how Deep Time can put in perspective our relationship to others, and that climate justice goes beyond that just a fair way of developing a resilient societal system or economy. It is beyond human.

“anthropogenic climate change has already delayed the next ice age by at least 100,000 years. In other words, our emissions of greenhouse gases in the last 150 years — which equals five generations — are causing an effect we can expect to last 3333 generations, or roughly half the time our species (homo sapiens) has been around on Earth”

— Franz Mauelshagen

From early on I knew that I wanted to adress Deep time in relation to Climate Justice, mixed with my favorite topic, democracy. But I wanted to take a take on what climate justic means and remove the human centered focus from it.

Exploring Deep Time

[Insert mapping images]

Looking into the social, economical… implication of Deep time the direction… (to complete)

Quite quickly it took the direction of creating a political based on deep time principles.

(detail the exploration and themes)

Deep Time Assembly system

The system was composed of two kinds of members; permanent and temporary members highlighting the puniness that we – humans, represent. Those members would meet on a regular basis (thousands of years apart) or if a crisis meeting is requested by one of the member.

(explain the system entirely)

The Deep Assembly of Earth and Beyond

An alternative cosmic

What is the UN and what does it do?

The Deep Assembly of Earth and Beyond is an interuniversal organization committed to maintaining peace and security, developing friendly relations among its members and promoting better living standards and universal rights.

What did I learn from this work and what do I want to take from it?

Yeaaah (write something smart)

In the pursuit of understanding what has been done and imagined by others I wanted to look into positive societal changes or at least attempts. I decided to dive into Utopias.

To gather my insight I first wanted to create a digital document that I would later print out. But I felt constrained in the need for the document to be perfect, visually pleasing, exhaustive, accurate, and smartly written. Even when I started looking into some utopias and dived into documentaries I felt afraid and restrained by this printable accuracy that I was creating. To free myself from it I decided to go towards a medium I love and that I usually make for others in the context of workshops and facilitation exercises. I created a template and riso printed it giving myself guidelines and space to navigate utopias, go back to them, quickly sketch or simply throw in a few words.

Once it was printed, on nice paper, in proportions that were pleasing to me and in a card format, I decided to connect my not-yet collection together. Looking for a way that would allow me flexibility, to start over if I wanted to, but still be able to compare my content together and lay it on a table.

What did I learn from this work and what do I want to take from it?

Diving into different utopias was very inspiring and I was surprised by the amount and variety I encountered. The principle of community seems to be part of them all as well as constructed shared spaces, but besides that, they are all unique. The downfalls often come from a lack of engagement, either because the community is too small, the next generation doesn’t fully believe in the established values and rules, or because the lack of control leads to misunderstandings and even acts of violence.

Besides the data I collected, I learned more about my needs around research. And the accessibility that I need to create for myself to be able to combine research. I have to start by designing a tool that will serve as a support to keep me focused. I recently got a pre-diagnosis for ADHD and it has been helping me to understand my needs in that direction, and how to build a structure for myself, as well as practicality. I have been making tools for myself or others for a long time but it was my first time understanding why this kind of format is working for me. Over the next months, I hope to build more of these tools that allow me freedom in my way of researching.

This work makes me wonder: What is needed for Utopias to become working societal models? What are people dreaming of nowadays? How could we get out of pessimistic fictional scenarios for our futures and start pushing for bigger utopic visions? I am aware that we are unperfect beings, but I believe that we could collectively aim for better futures whatever that might be, and that’s what triggers my focus in the unrealistic world of utopias.

How could I design a new social model? Re-design democracy or capitalism? How do I become a change expert? Well, big questions, small steps and a lot of understanding needed. I want to understand how we – as a society, we can move forward. So I decided to look into the past? How did change happened. I decided to ask what social changes people have witnessed in their life.

Understanding that my domain of understaning is only based on the twenty two years I spent on Earth, more than half of them being a kid who had little understanding of the systems in which things are anchored, it made sense to reach out to my family members who have a more complete understanding.

Before going into further discussion I wrote down the questions that I wanted to adress or have with me will conducting this research:

-How does social change happen? What are the changes that I witnessed? What are the changes that [family member] witnessed?

-What are the current norms? What is socialy valued? What changed since my [family member/ancestors]’s time?

-How do we challenge our systems and train for them? What are the skills lacking?

-How to handle the interconectdeness and the ‘pluriverse’?

-What are the things that I want to shift?

Interviewing a family member

This discussion surprised me. The family member I talked with being a very optimistic person my question pushed us towards a discussion that was filled with new emotions. Pessimism was a big one. I could sense fear and sadness when talking about what they perceived as negative social changes. We talked about the rejection of aging, which is a rejection of our own bodies and what makes us part of the natural world. We then explored the lack of sense in what we do, motivated by a social race against time due to capitalism, cupidity and the need to grow, always more. Which totally goes against the IPCC reports that are telling us to connect, understand, prepare, work collectively and slow down. We kept going on the need for an ecological model that could replace the capitalistic model and the need for sharing of the wealth. On a lighter note they feel that ‘the young people have the solution’, I am a dreamer, and I want to believe that we do.

A mapping tool to understand social change

From this interview I wanted to extend the question to a bigger crowd. Asking “What are the social changes that you witnessed?” and gather all the inputs in one place. To guide that question I wanted to add more detailed questions, WHEN did it happen? WHAT is the change? HOW could it happen? and what VALUES does it reflect?

(add pictures of mapped changes)

What did I learn from this work and what do I want to take from it?

(not done)

Change is not sudden, it builds up

difficult to identify changes when we are part of them, unless it is a big vibrant step (metoo, change of laws..)

difficult to involve my peers in the exercise

takes time to map a change

way easier for me to have a base, a tool that I can be filled by hand to map research, if needed later on, transferred to a digital version.

I wanna keep on hoping and dreaming, how can I start having small impacts, having small positive impacts

This quest was an exploration of how my ancestors and my descendants could enter into a dialogue. Using them as characters for a decision-making meeting disguised as a role-play exercise. I invited my peers, together with my past and future relatives, to design a set of rules for our collectiveness, the MDES program.

THE SYSTEM

I arranged the room to create two spaces, one for vocal interactiveness and one to witness the session. I invited eight people to take a seat in the center of the room, four playing the descendants and four playing the ancestors. The rest of the class was seating against the walls, knowing they would not actively take part in the meeting. The ancestors were facing the final descendants. To get a better understanding of how my ancestors were picked you can check my previous blog ‘genealogy inquiry’.

The Ancestors:

The Final Descendants:

I started the session even before anyone had entered the room, by giving visual clues. I wanted to give a sense of urgency, so I closed all blinds in the room and projected a red color on the projector. Once everyone had picked their seat, read their cards, and knew who they were embodying, I asked them to close their eyes and to listen. I then followed with my prepared script and speech. Keeping my own eyes open to be able to follow it.

What happened

Three ancestors and three descendants took a seat in the discussion area. One of the descendants did not take part in the discussion as they had not enough time to appropriate their character. The discussion went quite smoothly, the silence was difficult at the beginning as it took time to accept the lake of our main sense, sight. Quite quickly the discussion took the direction of natural spaces, and respect for the earth, which was also in the direction of most ancestors. Therefore there was a lack of tension in the discussion. The discussion was about fifteen minutes long during which I could feel a strong focus from all the active or passive members. The outcome was the proposal for all of us to go for an explorative walk in nature, connecting to natural spaces, a forest with a river, connecting our feelings, sensations, and senses together in a space that has little human disturbances.

What did I learn from this work and what do I want to take from it?

I really enjoyed creating this discussion, thinking of how I would articulate it set my intentions, and communicate it with everyone else. Using drama methods for listening and hearing each other was also very efficient. Having to talk simply by listening to the silence and marking that one is about to start by clapping was also working. I could feel that the entire room was focused on the exercise, even after it we naturally kept on clapping to start talking with each other and discuss what had happened. I felt respect from everyone at that moment, accepting each other’s time to speak and claiming the space and time to do so.

Something that worked less was the ancestors, as not all the seats were filled there was a lack of tension between the characters. Also as not everyone knew who were the other characters there was a fear of appearing harsh or being the only negative character. It was not immersive enough for people to fully embrace their characters and play with them. I enjoyed the idea of stimulating different perspectives through play but I need to tackle it in a different way. Another thing that I would have liked to be able to do is to engage the audience that has been listening. At the end of the discussion and before the proposal was accepted I asked them if they wanted to react to this decision that was taken for them, but none of them did. In a society where democracy is not engaging, I wonder: how do I train people to speak up and react to decisions that are taken for them?

A few other questions I am leaving this quest with are: How do I dare people to be provocative? How do I tackle, initiate sustain change? What is change?

Having to find a design inquiry to explore for a month forced me to look into the topics that stands out to me. I started mapping out all the elements that I care for.

Through this map, I could connect my different interests and identify areas within them. The Brain part is what I am logically interested in, the Senses part is what I sensitively go toward intuitively, and lastly, Ivresse, which could be described as what drives me to represent the places in which I always end up working, the kind of topics that I’ve kept on exploring and that keeps on exciting me. I have also added a few references to the designer that connect to my practice or had an impact on it.

This map led me to write down a few areas of inquiry and the first questions that came to my mind.

>How could we really apply values of equity and justice? >How could we particularise and localize a global world? >Could design ground our multiplicities and connect us to the natural and social ecosystems that we are blindly part of? >How could design catalyze our multiplicities? >How could I redesign policy-making and ground them in a relevant social and environmental context? >Could I start by exploring my own plural and disconnected roots? >Could I play with speculative narratives, participation, and systemic design?

How could design question the future of a super-plural world, looking into its policy-making and individualities?

Fairness and justice

From this question, I started my exploration by wondering: where does this need for fairness and justice come from? Those values are very important as a lot of my previous designs and life actions have been driven by them.

This design Blooming Democracy started from an inquiry into democracy that led me to realize that institutional democracy is not the rule of the people but the rule of some people. It is directly linked to the question of how justice and fairness can be applied in our societies.

Who was I?

To understand these personal values I decided to dive into my own stories, starting with my past. I collected already made research on my genealogy and tried to recall the family stories that I had heard. Stories about last names, origins, actions, and communities.

I won’t display my family tree or those stories online, but they were shared during the classes and I can email them if needed. (note for Cameron)

Through the study of this family tree, I was able to identify patterns that were repeated for centuries. To sum it up I come from a highly-educated men-led family and unknown women with strong Jewish attachments and beliefs. I could also identify that the pattern broke in the 50s. Did it break because of the political context? WW2, revolutions and Nazism? Did it break because of societal values? Is it simply closer to me so the pattern is not visible yet?

What are my worlds? My pasts? My presents? My futures? Who am I in the middle of that?

To connect to get closer to my present I looked through visual family archives. They did not teach much more than what I knew but they abled me to reconnect to the places in which I grew up. Seeing the walls of my family house full of my mom’s art, and seeing how playful and devoted my parents were to my well-being and joy in growing up helped me connect to them and my short past. I could also observe that I was very bossy growing up and was very independent and tenacious, knowing exactly what I wanted from a very young age.

To go to an almost present past I’ve reflected on my current state of being in Vancouver, Canada a place and country that has a loaded political, social, and historical context of the lands and people. Here I have heard about unsettled territories for the first time and also about the stories, of the colonial past (and present) of the lands. Being from a Jewish family in which the relation to the land has been broken over and over again has pushed me toward connecting back to those roots, even though I am as far as I’ve ever been from it. It has created spaces for me to wonder: How as a Jewish person, forced out of places for centuries can I be connected to a place, and feel like I belong? In the context of the super-plural world is it of importance? Is my unrootedness a force that I should explore?

How is the past seen and used?

Besides those personal explorations, I have been looking into works that have been addressing the past with storytelling.

What are the stories from the past that I could bring into the future?

From that, I wondered how to bring my learnings into an interesting format. I wondered who would be my original ancestors. Using the data I had collected I tried to expand my family tree and focused on four main archetypes that could inform where I come from. I have tried to nuance them by having two positive and two negative archetypes. Each of these archetypes is linked to one of my grandparents.

Trying to link the knowledge of the past to a potential future I was interested in who could be my final descendant. It was a very easy and natural descendant to come up with, and through using the understanding of my family patterns and the way I see myself she ended up being quite similar to the person I am.

Generalizing this exercise

From my exploration, I wanted to invite others to go through the same process. I wanted to collect those archetypes relating to futures and pasts. I created a booklet to do that. The booklet was riso printed in a dark purple.

I could collect booklets from five people, which allowed me to have a collection of 20 more ancestors and five descendants. For the good and bad ancestors, there was a common topic of who are the people they connect with and who are the ones they don’t. Most of them didn’t dare to push the archetypes or stayed in very close territories not that speculative or imaginative. Also, the bad ancestors were, to my own belief of what bad is, quite nice. For the descendants, I only collected mostly positive beings that are resourceful. There was a rejection of the ‘bad’ ancestors and a projection of an ideal self.

The booklets were a good way to start but it could be pushed, and this self-reflection could happen in a workshop context, and I could push that idea of archetypes to help participants build strong and deep characters.

Some people also gave me feedback that it was a good way to make peace with personal family stories and find an understanding of them.

Where to go from there?

I would like to pursue by exploring policy-making in relation to the past, the present, the future, and maybe confront it to the archetypes I am collecting. I am also very interested in this idea of utopia that is explored in the above quote from Utopia rediscovered: A redefinition of utopianism in the light of the enclosures of the Commons by Lieven de Cauter.

I will leave this idea of speculative genealogy on the side for now. But I might come back to my archetypes or use a similar process to play with policies.

Why are you designing here? is a role-play game that aims at including non-dominant perspectives in the design process. Questionning what are the elements around you and your design, or what could be, it invites you to question the impact of the design you are developping. It is a reponse to the article Why are we here? A reflexive story of decoloinisng by Yoko, Akama, Juliette, Anich, Areli, Avendano Franco, Jaz, Hee-Jeong Choi,
Liam, Fennessy, Marius, Foley, Leah, Heiss, Tania, Ivanka, Emma, Luke,
Rowan, Page, Tanja, Rosenqvist, Juan, Sanin, and Linus, Tan.

This article explains the strategy behind the ServDes 2020, the first service Design and Innovation conference to happen outside of Europe in its 12-year history. It was written in 2022, one year after the ServDes 2020 that happened in 2021.

Some of the key points expressed in the article are as follows:

1. We need to open conventions and ways of doing to reinvent them to decolonize and generate accessible and energizing forms of knowledge.
2. Going back to the values of aboriginal first people is a way to act above the dominant design, acknowledging them by not only listening but also by implementing, again, their values is a way to do respectful and down-to-needs design.
3. Intergenerational work triggers critical design outcomes, thinking beyond conventions and usual thoughts can push established systems (like conferences) to reinvent themselves.

One of the quotes that triggered a design response was “Design is an industry and discipline that has undoubtedly been a central machine and technology in making decisions about how people should work, live, play, organize and imagine futures [29] [48]. Redirecting what it should become, through ethical ways of gathering, could elevate and expand our thinking and being.” I strongly agree with this statement, and through the article, I was inspired by the strategy they used to redirect what design typically is. Through connections with the aboriginal people of the land where they were hosting the conference, they applied their values. The values lay in the simple traditional welcome that is also the question “Why are you here, what is your purpose?” that Boon Wurrung Elder explains as “this Welcome by a Traditional Custodian comes with obligations to obey the laws of Bundjil, Kulin’s creator deity, to not harm the land (biik biik), waterways (wurneet) and children (bubups) of Bundjil”.

Caring for the people and the localities surrounding the conference was a big part of the process of the organization of the conference. It is also interesting to point out that the decolonizing of this conference, generated better environmental and social values for the conference. I believe that we need to apply this respect in design, caring for the environment and the people that surround the design. Designers tend to forget to consider what surrounds the design, and all of the particles that could be influenced by it, in the now or the future.

With Why are you designing here? I want to invite the designers from our class to consider more than their scope. I want to invite them to think in the system, and out of the seen system.

Playfully, this game allows the designer to think of their design in context, and opens a dialogue between different advocates and localities.
What are the localities impacted by the design? We tend to avoid this type of question. How would the soil or the water be impacted by your design? It can most of the time seem abstract and unrelated, but by asking someone to represent this element and stick to it through the game we might unveil unseen risks on which we should intervene. If you think of smartphone, you don’t think of how it impacts the environment but just by looking at the component needed that are extracted through mining, it is already having terrible consequences. But as I want to invite you to design in system, it was important to include the more active beings, such as elders, insects, infants, indigenous people, and so on. The person picking one of these cards will have to use all their knowledge and try to be their best advocate. This method allows more realities to be considered, it cannot replace the direct input from the concerned ones, but it is an attempt at getting out of the dominant design and going beyond the stereotypical body and social classes we design for.
The advocates present in the game were included by looking at the typical -ism, racism, sexism, ageism, and so on. I was asking myself the question who are the beings excluded from the dominant design? Who is being forgotten? Who won’t be considered but impacted? The answer is infinite and goes beyond the scope of the human. As I do not have absolute knowledge I have left space to add other localities and advocates that should be in it.
Beyond the advocates and localities that are discussing a designer’s project, I added a facilitator who following guidelines will curate the interaction and make it systemic.

What is design speculation? How can I turn it into daily practice? How can I make myself comfortable with this new practice? How can I make great speculative stories?

Design speculation is about projections of the known/now, the part that is close to us and that maybe we don’t question. It’s about identifying threats and avoiding them. It’s about imagination and storytelling. Speculation is questioning what is the norm.

Establighing a protocole

To come to a method of daily speculation I read about it, Speculative Everything was a starting point. I then connected with Sumein Shamsher faculty and learned about Re-imagining the now. A game/method to generate redesign of technological systems.

Using the knowledge I had gathered I made my own method:

1- Item and its definition

2- Context: environmental, social, political and cultural

3- ‘What if’ questions

4- ‘How’ questions based on the definition

5- Possibilities to each ‘how’ questions

6- Selection, and looking into related facts

7- Writing an unperfect short story

8- Visualization

Bonus- When stuck watch the Handmaid’s Tale, Black Mirror or reading about design speculation projects.

My item for those two weeks of speculation was the passport. A simple object that to me is unquestioned, I rely on it with confidence. But coming from a Jewish family it has been different for many of its members. The citizenship statute that goes with a passport made it very valuable especially in times of war and hatred that led to episodes of statelessness and in which hiding one’s identity was vital.

First story

What if there was no more physical passports or passport services?

In a TV studio, a man is sobbing, facing the camera. “Please let my Jane come home!”

The reporter explains that Jane, the man’s wife, went on a girl trip. It ended, and the girls came home. Raymond, Jane’s lover, was excited to see her again. He waited at the train station where all the girls arrived, except Jane. They seemed surprised “Raymond! What are you doing here? Already out of the hospital?”. Raymond was confused, then scared, “What happened to Jane?? She’s at the hospital?”. The girls, confused as well, “No, Jane left early. She received a call saying that you had an accident.” The group quickly realized that something was wrong. They went to the police to check her record. Jane apparently came back a few days ago. The officer told them not to worry. He then looked at Ray and said: “hmm, you guys were not married..”.

Raymond with his social media influence connects with other people with similar stories. His story is far from unique, but local authorities cannot do anything. The identity was stated at the border, and according to local police, she is back home. Borders are fluid, so everything is automatic. Some people found evidence that Jane never crossed the border. It is a digital ghost who did it. A person paid by the digital mafia to cross borders using an identity sensor, a sort of cheat code allowing access and making the country believes that they are safely back home.

Rumors are starting to gain importance worldwide. Forgottens, people with no identity, are found. Their country birthmarks are gone, a sign that used to be a second way to check one’s identity. They have no idea of who they are, but people recognize them.

The disappearance does not happen to children or married people. As the border system notifies when a loved one crosses the border a police investigation can start immediately. In the coming years, as international travel is part of daily life, people will get married on their 18th birthday. Soon, being alone will be seen as a weakness and lovelessness will be despised.

Two years ago, physical passports stopped existing. If one has to prove their identity, one must state their name, place of birth, and birth date. A contactless detector will validate or invalidate their statement. Visas are not required to travel, but you must work and spend most of your time in your country. In case of an emergency during a trip, you won’t find the embassy, but the local police will be pleased to help you. Lastly, every newborn has a birthmark with the outline of their birth country.

Second story

What if all countries were to close their borders by refusing access to all foreign passports?

Third Story

What if there was a global passport?

Forth Story

What if passports were taken from jewish people?

In downtown Vancouver, two young girls, Lena and Maï, are exiting a building. Today is a good day, the first day of Rosh Ashanna, the Jewish new year. They walk happily toward the farmer’s market to buy apples and honey for a sweet year. Once under the market tents, they deactivate their identity devices. The control drones cannot reach under the tents.

The seller smiles at them, “The two of you are here for my best apples, I guess.” The girls smile back and nod their heads. The wrinkly woman with long black hair hands them a bag full of red and juicy apples. Lena reaches for currency in the bag. The woman asks, “How is it up in the clouds?” “Good,” says Maï, “The family is doing good! Sometimes I wish those clouds would give us more space and sun. Hopefully, this war will be over soon.” The old lady whispers, “My son told me they are running out of water. Now that they lost our lakes, we are safe”. “I hope so too,” replies Lena handing a jar full of honey. “Thank you, dear. We are even for this cycle, be safe girls. You don’t want the drones to detect an anomaly”. The girls smile and reactivate the devices to blur their presence to the digital world.

On the way home, they stop by a tree. “I wish we could have some trees up there, but their roots are so deep, they would go through the ceiling!” Lena replies to Maï, “Aren’t you happy with our sheep, bees, vegetable garden, and plants Maï? A house with a garden with neighbors would be better, but we live a great life!” “But Lena! You heard if the war is over soon and the drones gone, we won’t have to be careful anymore, and we will be able to visit all of our friends who left for the mountains.” “If they are still alive…” “Lena! No one died for real in this war, a digital death doesn’t make you a dead human…” “That’s where we disagree Maï, come on, let’s go home before they start without us.”

They arrive at the building, hop in the elevator and press the number four and height. The elevator goes up. It reaches floor twenty and makes a short stop. The screen numbers disappear, and it goes up again, continuing to a hidden floor. The door opens to a crowded room, and a man comes to them “Here you are! Come on, let’s cut those apples so we can start.” Maï and Lena get in happily. The honey is already on the table, and everyone has arrived. This year will be a sweet year. Shana Tova!

Two years ago, triggered by the amount of extremist and far-right governments as well as the climate and refugee crisis, WW4 started. History has proven that in those moments, minorities are under attack. Canada was invaded, and the authority asked the Canadian government to take the Jewish people’s passports. The government accepted, but massive online protests pushed them to do it differently. Helped by online powerful networks, new identities were created. With these new identities, they are free to travel and live peacefully. To give them space to express their identity, they could move to governmental facilities located in the clouds. Lastly, they were all given an invisibility device to guarantee their protection.

Understandings

Speculation and writing a speculative story take time. It is a fun but sometimes difficult process. Getting into the details of a story through the process of writing was quite easy for me. The closer and emotional it was to me, the more difficult it was. It s exciting to see how one tiny idea can lead to a far and complex story. I also got the chance to try Risoprinting through the process, which was very fun.
I am going to keep on working with speculation and maybe even deepen some of those stories.

A gift for Diego

Diego and I went to the Master’s rooftop, on the 4th floor of Emily Carr. We sat on one of the picnic tables under the sun and started talking. Diego doesn’t like rain. He comes from Mexico and when arriving in Vancouver he was happy to see how sunny it was. But as we all know it… grey and rainy days will come.

How will Diego, coming from a mostly sunny country, will be able to feel good when the rainy days will come?

I find it important to connect to the things that make one feel good when the weather is sad and gloomy. I decided to create guidelines for Diego, to invite him into a ritual for those rainy days.

The ritual – Elements

A- Corn tortillas

During our conversation Diego mentionned how Mexican tortillas, made with corn were going to be missed by him. I asked if he knew how to make them but he doesn’t. He mentionned that the process was long and difficult. As a food lover I took it as a challenge. And decided to look into Mexican tortillas making. Two of my friends come from Mexico, but none of them new how to make them from scratch. I asked the internet who guided me through the making of them and was able to quite quickly identify the ingredients needed. I went on a trip to a Mexican store to buy the right ingredients, and ask a few questions.

I then made the tortillas following their advice as well as the different online recipes I could find online, to make the tortillas as easy and good as possible.

B- Activities

Along with the tortilla making I wanted to invite Diego to connect to the things he enjoys. We talked about his lover who is still in Mexico, the sports he loves, the movies he watches, his family, and food again… Out of all those elements I suggested to him a few activities that I think he would enjoy will making tortillas.

Understandings

Through this assignment, I learnt a new recipe from a country I do not know very well. I also connected to Diego and understood him better, and maybe make a friend. It was also interesting to reflect on my rainy day rituals. I hope that when they will come, Diego but also I will be able to go through them with a lot of comfort and happiness.