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Feedback Wanted!
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cogitationitis.livejournal.comWe are seeking feedback--both good and bad--about 2013 to make Arisia 2014 even better. Send your comments to feedback@arisia.org, or go to http://2013.arisia.org/feedback
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Feedback for Arisia'12
Jan. 16th, 2012 10:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jasraIf you'd like to provide us with feedback from this year's con, we'd love to hear from you. We have 2 different feedback forms:
- Feedback from panelists about their various panels, workshops or events
- General feedback about the con (what was YOUR favorite panel? what was good this year? what wasn't so good? etc)
Plus you can email us directly at feedback at arisia dot org!
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ETA: Ok, NOW the comments are disabled. :D Post con-brain hit!
- Feedback from panelists about their various panels, workshops or events
- General feedback about the con (what was YOUR favorite panel? what was good this year? what wasn't so good? etc)
Plus you can email us directly at feedback at arisia dot org!
Comments disabled to encourage use of the above forms.
ETA: Ok, NOW the comments are disabled. :D Post con-brain hit!
Disability In SF Panel
Jan. 22nd, 2010 09:30 pmspacehawk.livejournal.comI agree with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ambyr when she said,
"...what I'm really interested in isn't "extrapolating the future of disability through the lens of science fiction" (I am generally skeptical of "science fiction as a means of predicting the future"), but in what today's speculative fictional presentations of disabilities say about our current perceptions, and how speculative fiction can be used to hold up a mirror to ourselves and change the ways we see disability now."
Not a gee wiz panel about advances in medicine and technology. Did you know in the future, "disabled" people will instead have superpowers?
How about this not be the panel discussion.
This panel should be planned better next year and start from the "social model versus medical model" of disability as introduced into the conversation bytikva.
/huge thank you shout out totikva./
ambyr when she said,"...what I'm really interested in isn't "extrapolating the future of disability through the lens of science fiction" (I am generally skeptical of "science fiction as a means of predicting the future"), but in what today's speculative fictional presentations of disabilities say about our current perceptions, and how speculative fiction can be used to hold up a mirror to ourselves and change the ways we see disability now."
Not a gee wiz panel about advances in medicine and technology. Did you know in the future, "disabled" people will instead have superpowers?
How about this not be the panel discussion.
This panel should be planned better next year and start from the "social model versus medical model" of disability as introduced into the conversation by
tikva./huge thank you shout out to
tikva./
Some feedback
Jan. 22nd, 2008 09:02 pmbobquasit.livejournal.comHere's some general feedback about the con. I'm reserving program participant-specific feedback for email, so this is the more general stuff. Quick caveat: some of this stuff may have been at the con, but I missed it. If so, sorry.
1. I'd strongly suggest putting "QUIET FLOOR" signs - large ones - outside the elevators on floors that have been designated as such. On Saturday and Sunday nights there were some very loud conversations - shouting back and forth along the corridors, actually - well after midnight, and the noise went on for some time in each case. I'm sure there was no malice behind it, but signs would probably have been a helpful reminder.
2. The management of elevators was a serious problem on Sunday afternoon. I realize that there isn't much to be done about the elevators themselves, but I spent quite a bit of time standing to one side and watching the elevators go up and down - we were, of course, waiting for an elevator. Apparently whoever was running them had decided that the "middle" floors should get little to no service, because over and over I saw elevators skip the 7th and 8th floors. And the buttons were definitely pushed, mind you! We waited over 25 minutes for an elevator, and when one finally came, it was full. This was a concern for us because my wife has a knee problem and could not possibly take the stairs.
( Read more... )5. Things I miss from Arisias past:
1. I'd strongly suggest putting "QUIET FLOOR" signs - large ones - outside the elevators on floors that have been designated as such. On Saturday and Sunday nights there were some very loud conversations - shouting back and forth along the corridors, actually - well after midnight, and the noise went on for some time in each case. I'm sure there was no malice behind it, but signs would probably have been a helpful reminder.
2. The management of elevators was a serious problem on Sunday afternoon. I realize that there isn't much to be done about the elevators themselves, but I spent quite a bit of time standing to one side and watching the elevators go up and down - we were, of course, waiting for an elevator. Apparently whoever was running them had decided that the "middle" floors should get little to no service, because over and over I saw elevators skip the 7th and 8th floors. And the buttons were definitely pushed, mind you! We waited over 25 minutes for an elevator, and when one finally came, it was full. This was a concern for us because my wife has a knee problem and could not possibly take the stairs.
( Read more... )5. Things I miss from Arisias past:
- a formal dance
- the Dealer's Room (the Row was fine, but we miss the Room)
- the laser room (ah, that was long ago. But it was magical)
- a 24-hour video room. What happened to that?
- the amateur video contest. Although I'm not offering to run it!
