The Horse 2023

Environment & Technology

Reflection for Penan from Borneo

What happened to you personally and/or to the team in between?

For me personally, it was a fascinating topic. The things I learned definitely opened my eyes. I am certain that just a few other topics would have been able to do it in such a manner. The people I have met during the process of creating were one of a kind. For example my friend Rudolf Isenschmid, a guy who has been with the Penan on multiple occasions, or the photographer Tomas Wüthrich, who kindly allowed me to use his phenomenal pictures. Additionally, I started to appreciate what I actually have and how good we have it here in Switzerland. The problems we are facing are almost non-existent in comparison to what the Penan face on a daily basis. It is almost incomprehensible for us, having to fight for our homes, for example.

What kind of knowledge and experience could you achieve?

I realized, that I do not need much to be happy. This might sound a bit like something a lot of people would say, but to see how the Penan live really opened my eyes. Through the interview, I was able to experience second hand what it means to interact with this special tribe. When I spoke with the photographer who was with the Penan in 2019 and took amazing pictures, which helped me to immerse into the project even better.

 

How biased has your perception of the “real world” been?

Really bias actually, the conception of my world in comparison to the life on Borneo is vastly different. The problems we face could not be more different. We feel like we got screwed over when the train does not come on time, but they fight for the home on a daily basis. They need to protect their home against the illegal logging, an issue they did not cause themselves but have to carry the consequences. Just because we, the rest of the world want the tropical woods and their own governments need space for agriculture. It definitely helped me to realize how privileged we have it here in Switzerland.

Did your guesses correspond?

Up to a certain degree for sure, but also not really. I have heard a lot during past conversations with my interview partner. But through the interview I started to ask questions I have not asked before, through that it has changed my point of view on the indigenous tribe from Borneo and on my own life. I fulfilled my goals for my project, I created something I can be proud of, something which can help to rethink and change the view of the world. At least a little bit.

"Framework for the contribution" Penan from Borneo

* header pic

-format of the picture: image width: 1920 bis max. 2560px / image hight: 806 bis max. 1075px

 

 [Pic from T. Wüthrich]

 

* titles

-main title: short, crisp, meaningful; maybe a question, has the H1 format

-sub titles: take H2, sub sub titles take H3, etc.

 

[Penan from Borneo]

 

* introduction

-short exciting introduction

-maybe mention your collaboration team

 

[Introduction from Article maybe / Introduction of Rudolf Isenschmid]

 

* content

-structure text through titles, paragraphs, etc.

-check the spelling, have a look at the red waved words in your administration

(-maybe use colors)

 

[Working with interview and create a text introducing the penan / Corrections with languagetool]

 

* links

-link to external websites: meaningful link-text, main-domain (only) of the target in parenthesis after the link (, open the link in a new window (see settings)

-link to a wikipedia article: no main-domain after the link needed

-put links to other articles of contributions on dontwastemy.energy

 

[Links: BMF, Wikipedia, Tomas Wüthrich]

 

* media (images, videos, etc.)

-specify sources (who, where, maybe link to the source)

-images: always write a alt-text - this text is for screenreaders (people who do not see well) and for indexing the media through search engine (SEO, google etc.), maybe set also the title text (Einblenden des Titels bei Mouse-over)

>Example Image-details-for-wordpress

 

[Pictures from Tomas Wüthrich]

 

* interviews

-name of the person, where, when, short text about the person (who is she/he)

-inform the person after the article is live, maybe he/she does a comment

 

[I will do a short text for Rudolf Isenschmid]

 

* end

-name of the team-members, mention your collaboration team, links to the other article

 

[Yuri Dobler & Rudolf Isenschmid, Links will be added later]

 

* in the administration: fill in a short description so google will rate you better & it will be the text that will be shown by google in the search results

 

* propagation

-before & after going live: propagate on social media, send the link to people you know or ask for a comment

 

* Gallerien: Jedes Bild braucht eine Bildunterschrift (Caption)

 

* Nice to have

  >Interviews: Original text as PDF

Plan for today (16.05.2023)

- Start planning what I want to publicate on "dont waste my energy"

-Start creating the post on "dont waste my energy"

- Tasks

My plan for today is to get my text reday for publication and maybe start the proccess with wordpress. I already have my login information. Im waiting to get a short intro and explanation how everything works.

Statusupdate "Penan from Borneo"

So far I have done everything needed for IDAF and publication. I have updated all of my earlier posts regarding my publication process. The only thing I still need to prepare for is the podcast tonight. I am planning on updating this feed later today for my notes for the podcast, and tomorrow I am trying to update regarding the podcast. I assume the upload of the episode happens in the next month. But I am sure I will receive a raw version of the audio earlier than that.

Pictures for Publication

I have contacted Tomas Wüthrich, a photographer who was with the penan in 2019, if I could use some of his pictures for my project. I have added the teachers to BCC. I will update the post in case of an awnser.

Pictures in question:

Tomas Wüthrich

UPDATE

I have recived an anwser from Tomas Wüthrich, I am allowed to use his pictures!

Tomas asked me, if he could have the artivle aswell, so I sent it to him aswell.

To-Do for Penan from Borneo

I have already sent out  a lot of E-Mails, so I now need to work on the article. There is already a first draft, but I would like to include the interview into the article. As soon as this is done, I would be ready to start the process of publication.

-Finish article
-Possible corrections
-Start intro WordPress
-Storyboard podcast
-Team assesment