Initial Conditions

This occurred to me... What are the four stories in your life that most explain the person you are today? Put another way... What are four stories that, if left untold, would make it impossible for anyone else to understand you?

The full set of initial conditions for the FYS are

A starting point (above)
A course title (FYS: On Being an Artist)
A three-unit structure (Image, Sound, Movement)

A genre (Digital Storytelling)
A group of students
Two instructors

That's enough moving parts to generate edifying complexity... all we need to do is put the parts in play and pay attention to what the ecosystem needs... it's an instance of dynamic ecological design...