Main Advisor and OP Reviewer: Nicole Vosper
Associate Name:  Sophie Viandier
Output Packet: 5      
Phase/ALC: BSc IESD Yr1
Date Submitted: 16th April 2015
Date Reviewed: 12th May 2015
Mark: 80
Grade: A
Time Spent on Review: 3.75 hours

Dear Sophie 

What a wonderful piece of work. You are doing incredible work on all your projects and have truly embraced eco-social design, while navigating complex commitments. I’m in awe of how much you do and give to the world. 

My review is broken into these sections:
1. Evaluation Form (attached)
2. Comments Per Section

Required next step:

- Add a digiphon section

- Add more commentary to your self review, at the very least a written statement in the final comments section. Self reflection is an incredibly important feedback loop (as you know from the OP5)

Recommended next step:

- Develop your output packet process reflection further. What did you learn? What were the highlights and challenges? What would you do differently next time? Did you meet your design goals for the OP? 

- Also share reflections on how you incorporated feedback from peer and pro reviews, and an overview of your dissemination efforts. 

Comments per section 

Specifications & Abstract

Love the quote about planning! What is the source?
Great that you have used the zoning tool
Be great  if you can include just a very brief introduction e.g. who you are - a BSc associate, where you live, how long you’ve been with Gaia U etc. Just for readers browsing your work who don’t know you.
‘Experimenting, tinkering whirlwind’ - brilliant! My Mum actually calls me Little Miss Whirlwind too…!
Great you are using the OP as a tool to heal and grow. I love that this OP is already orientated towards your own needs, well done!
The feedback from Ava is blank - intentional?
I love the separate ‘elements’ contents list - maybe this could be more prominent?

Zone 00 - 1

Your flower is so abundant! What a huge amount in such a short space of time!
Beautiful writing.. learnings like a punch to the nose
Amazing move to more clarity & focus… when has this emerged during your pathway? Just on reflection in this learning review.. or as a constant niggle the whole time?
Wonderful graphic of goals

Parentage
Your parents must have such a huge travel bug! No wonder you have inherited such a spirit of adventure
It sounds like it has been a transformational time for you all, so many changes and moving points of reference
‘Hyper-responsible’ - what a powerful statement. How did this feedback feel to you? Accurate?

Peer
Great that you bought friends and peers to you, recognising the limitations of your local area
Wonderful you have such multidimensional connections
Great that Jon wants to work with Gaia U :) So glad you have found such a nourishing relationship

Zones 2-3

I definitely agree your OP portfolios are growing in quality for sure. They have always been of a super-high standard, but its great to see you fully embrace some of the internal Gaia U tools and concepts
Love the graphics for the different design processes
HUGE number of projects. No wonder you are exhausted! It would be great to see these in some kind of comparison to each other e.g. ones you had most personal fulfilment from/professional growth/ones that were most challenging/which felt most strategic etc.
I still can’t get over how you’ve done up your own home, what an incredible achievement!!
I remember reading these outputs :) Such impressive work
I’m glad you are very proud of the transfer station design… it was brilliant. I can’t wait to hear about the design implementation

Professional

Process of elimination, yes! I can see that you have been doing lots of rapid prototypes working on different projects. Sometimes we learn more about we want by experiencing what we don’t want. Important life changing decision making! Remembering we change over time is very important also… e.g. livelihood design can consider succession - you may have the energy to manage 3 or 4 roles when you’re young, and as you age desire to reduce complexity. For example I’m already planning to be a herbalist in my later years so I can use my herbal knowledge and reduce the amount of intense organising/demanding project work I’m doing. How could you utilise the principle of succession in designing your own livelihood?

Perhaps one of your capstone year projects can be a thorough livelihood design?

Stunning list of jobs, awards, volunteering experiences etc!

Zones 4-6

I can just imagine the feeling of interacting with the other selectman from reading your words. It must have been a full body, all encompassing experience that chewed you up regularly. I admire you so much for ‘sticking to your guns’ and riding it out (and calling them out) so you could serve your community
How can you support yourself discharge the distresses?? Maybe some reflective writing about the whole experience? What support would have changed the experience? What institutional practices could be introduced to minimise the harm to people in these roles?

Congrats on changing it to selectperson!
Your observations that its for retired, financially stable people is most likely v accurate - it is similar here in the UK. How does this make you feel? How can people still participate in politics without that privilege?

Planetary

Aw beautiful connection with the bird
Sounds like an amazing, important project
Congratulations on teaching your first PDC, what a fantastic capstone year project
Brilliant you have found a mentor, Aviram Rozin
Great that there is a sister agreement now and a clear legacy

Reflections, Journals, Appendices

Be great to see a conclusion before moving to this page

38 new solar homes, what an achievement!
Well done for handing over the community association if it was a real stress point, accepting our limits is a big lesson all the time (like shifting sand!)
I’d love to hear more about your interns and how that worked for you
Maple, yum!
What a huge diversity of projects, I’m sure you learnt phenomenal amounts that are beyond this OP

Amazing list of content workshops. I’m sure they were hugely informative.

Beautiful poetry, you really need to get your work out there :)
Including the attendance tracker is a great idea!

Wonderful skill flex assessment. What patterns can you see? How will integrate this data in your next LIPD?
On the bar chart it would be great to see a comparison within the same chart
You have clearly grown more than expected. Why is the transparancy & integrity less? It would be great to see some written annotation of these bar charts (maybe in the next LIPD?)

Wow a lot of articles, great dissemination efforts

It is very common for associates to not initially see the power of the LIPD process. But great that you recognise this and the next one can have more concrete goals/projects within it.

Nice that you’ve included music albums. I always like to create an OP soundtrack!

Very thorough resource review. Gaia U like RRs to be ‘annotated’ however I feel you have included sufficient commentary to indicate to the reader why the resources were useful