Incubation 5
Shared Mental Model Survey
In Spring 2025, 3 months after the Residency, PW receive a survey. It includes a set of 8 questions about ‘The Configurations’ – including prompt-based questions, paired comparison matrixes, and diagram requests. Its stated aim is ‘to get as accurate a sense as possible of what each participant’s understanding of the work is.’
Completion is optional. 5 people complete the survey.
(The example survey below was filled in by Tanith Mab).
Introduction
For further information:
N1 – ‘The Confetti Manifesto’ – preparatory document circulated to PW prior to survey, introducing conception of PW as ‘a set of components, an emergent switchboard, a learner-generated context, shared representation’ – with reference to Wayne Koestenbaum, certain blur-related aesthetics and Buddhist imagery.
The whole
Socio-cultural context
PW cross-reference ‘The Configurations’ with elements of its socio-cultural environment.
For further information:
N2 – The Paired-Comparison Matrix and Collective Intelligence Testing
Configuration-by-Configuration Basic Understanding
PW members give their remembered version of the contents of each Configuration.
Section largely left unanswered.
Table of Elements
PW members write down perceived degree of connectedness between the set of ‘characters’ and the set of narrative units that make up ‘The Configurations.’
Scattergram
PW diagram the relations between characters/’identity-positions.’
Interestingly this reveals relations between characters who aren’t narratively connected – suggesting a view of the different ‘Configurations’ as iterations and versions of the same story.
Themes
PW write down perceived degree of interconnectedness between narrative elements and a set of Themes.
For further information:
N3 – Number Fatigue/Possible Issues with Data
PW Members
PW write down perceived degree of interconnectedness between characters and the set of PW members who had been involved in the process of creating them.
For further information:
N4 – Data Technician
Communal Memory
PW cross-reference ‘The Configurations’ with elements of the group of artists collective lived experience of the ‘art scene’ in Manchester and just general city life.
How to Materialise This
PW offer suggestions about how they see the world of ‘The Configurations’ being realised and presented.
For further information:
N5 – PW’s realization suggestions in Inc 5