Well in the article Ellen Lupton discusses the good and bad things about collaboration. She talks about collaboration and why it is good and how she still wants her own independence.  Even ifor she is collaborating with someone she also talks about how she also likes working in teams and how it is a good thing to be working within a team. She goes into discuss about being in a team has ups and downs also.When your in a team sometimes people don’t pull their own weight of the team.I can agree with her on that .I also can agree that I don’t like getting forced into teams wherw being a group who is mismatch he’d  or where people tend to not take on their own responsiblity I also can agree with her I to sometimes like to work alone also but I rather be in a group I think you can get a lot done much quicker on my opinion.

I think that the people we hang out wits  can shape you in some form. OR give us informatioN.Yes your friends are always the healthy or rather suppose to be the healthy compete titian in some cases. When working in groups  you can take big projects and make them into smaller ones and then come back with all the ideas to form a great project.

I also think that’s a good idea that if everyone is passionate about a certain idea that every one should collaborate and come together and maybe pull some oftheir finances together and skills to make  somethingbetter if they share such passion on one thing.collaboration can be a great thing when you have like mindestructible individuals who are willing to put in the work.

In the article “Why Collaborate” by Ellen Lupton she sheds some light on why she likes and dislikes working together. She went into detail about the positive and negative outcomes of working together. Ellen liked to work with a team that had their own defined roles and skill sets. She stated “It can be frustrating when a few people a doing the heavy lifting”. Ellen doesn’t mind working with a group however each member should be able to cooperate and all add the same value of work to the project. Ellen went on that more can be achieved by working with a group that by working by yourselves. She talks about how outside of forced group work and school, many groups of people have voluntarily worked together to do amazing things.  In school students create social networks that can last a life time and are a source of artistic inspiration. Ellen stated that “Successful collaborations are like democracy writ small”. Collaborations are resourceful, fun and can be productive depending on the peers participating with you.

Donald Nian

Professor Jody R. Rosen

September 25th 2017

ENG

Why collaborate?

In the article, “Why Collaborate?” it explains about how the narrator Ellen Lupton was different from other kids because she did not like group work at all however she enjoyed voluntary, informal collaborations with her friends. However, she was resented being forced into arbitrary, mismatched teams in the name of social correctness, “The situation is different in school, where each student is a paying customer and the overall goal is the education of individuals rather than the production of large-scale projects. In my own experiences as a student, I have enjoyed voluntary, informal collaborations with my friends, but I have resented being forced into arbitrary, mismatched teams in the name of social correctness. The narrator had a different perspective than others because she love to collaborate but she wanted to work alone. As it says, ““I’d love to collaborate, as long as I can work alone.” I often have felt that way about collaboration. Sure, it’s a great idea, as long as it doesn’t violate my personal work schedule or on my sense of control and authorship.” This explains she wants to work alone and have no one interfere her personal work schedule or collaboration. This also means that the narrator has the same perspective in school. Later on, the narrator finds out why its more important to work in a group. Working in a group is more important than working alone because people have different ideas in their minds and it says in the article, she was impressed by an article in surface magazine about hot young architects. “I was struck, recently, by an article in Surface magazine about hot young architects. I was impressed not just by their work, but by the fact that many of the firms mentioned in the piece—such as Freecell, SHOP, and Open Office—are teams of younger designers who have come together to pool their skills, their financial resources, and their social connections. Architecture, even more than graphic design, is a notoriously difficult field in which to make a name for one’s self, and these emerging designers have succeeded in winning important commissions and getting their work seen by the larger community. They are also, presumably, making a living, while working outside the established system of single-name firms and big corporate offices.” As she realized group work is more important, she realized it can create social networks in school that can last a lifetime and at Maryland Institute college of art (MICA), the narrator and her group worked together to promote and organize events where they can offer these goods for sale. Another reason why working in a group is important because it can be successful only if the group works in a team. “he students have invested their own labor and creativity into their own products, but they each know that the success of the overall undertaking relies on teamwork.” Ellen Lupton is pointing out that working in groups is a better style than working alone and working in groups can make your work successful.