Work smarter not harder
Hello again guys! So, after a big meeting that gathered some of the major stakeholders of the project (where civil servants from the municipalities of South Limburg and even from Belgium, the VVV Zuid Tourism Board, UNESCO Dutch Committee representatives, and research experts sat down at the same table), there was much needed feedback to be given from our mentor to us regarding essential aspects of the scope of our Team’s task and it’s role in the bigger picture. That is why our meeting with the mentor on the last day of February was so important. Although it might seem weird, the truth is that at that point we still hadn’t completely figured out what our role was and exactly what our tasks and end goal was with the project…should we try to impersonate the role of scientists and archeologists and pinpoint what elements of the landscape of South Limburg should be selected for UNESCO status? Or should we direct our research to analyzing the different UNESCO instruments and figure out what is more interesting from a preservation or economic perspective? All our existencial questions were thankfully answered during the meeting and we were finally able to redefine the scope of our research questions in order to make the project more feasible given our time frame and to set a game plan for the future that both the Team and the mentor were happy with. After meeting with the mentor, we met amongst us to reflect on what had been discussed, make a division of tasks and set internal deadlines. We also decided we would be more productive if we created sub-teams of 2 within the team to work closer together on specific parts of the final report.
Here I leave a neat scheme of the final result:
- Andreia