🛠️ Phase 3 - Investigation
🛠️ Workshop
⏱ 10 minutes
Task 6 - Group C: Engineers of Expression
Production theme: Architectural Prototyping for Digital Rebirth. Pick one design and sketch how it would actually work.
Pick one design to prototype
The Identity Masking Avatar Node
A profile that projects a compelling human narrative while confusing machine-learning tracking vectors.
Challenge: recognisable to humans, noise to AI scrapers.
The Sovereign-First Profile Interface
Redesign a network's UI to focus on reputation points over real-world legal identity.
Challenge: replace login with self-sovereign keys.
The Cryptographic Time Capsule
An encrypted personal data bank holding a user's authentic history while they live under a separate persona.
Challenge: readable decades from now, no central server.
The Subversive Rebirth Glitch Persona
Digital "Glitch Art" as a public avatar - imperfection as a tool for self-determination.
Challenge: non-indexable by search engines.
Sketch your prototype
Your chosen design
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✅ Prototype submitted to the class gallery.
The Grand Synthesis
Group A - the Engine
"Here is the protocol that allows you to start over safely."
Group B - the Threat Matrix
"Here is how the corporate architecture will try to track you down."
Group C - the Deployment Blueprint
"We engineered a system that separates biological tracking loops from the human right to self-invention."
Bridge to Phase 4 - Discovery
"Each team examined identity through a different lens - protocol, risk, and design. Now let's put them together and see what technology can never fully capture."
What happens in Task 6
A 10-minute Phase 3 - Investigation activity as "Group C - Engineers of Expression." Students pick one of four identity-protecting designs, sketch how it would work, then see the Grand Synthesis - one closing quote from each research team.
🎯 Learning objectives
Students prototype tools, code templates, or systems that resolve the tension between tracking and freedom, drawing on everything Groups A and B discovered.
♿ SEN Adaptations
- Voice input accepted for the sketch field
- Students may draw their prototype on paper and describe it verbally instead of typing
🖨️ No-Tech Format
- Four printed design cards; groups choose one and sketch on paper
- Grand Synthesis quotes read aloud by a spokesperson from each team