iThesis: Polly's project

Abstract

This text accompanies an attempt to solicit a loosening of the existing role of 'thesis' the key undergraduate learning instrument within universities in Thailand. It describes a project that uses technology to facilitate an exit from the 'regulatory space' in which thesis operates. It succeeds in exiting this regulatory space by forming - outside of its jurisdiction - an 'aggregate' body from which a cumulative intelligence is established. Operating out of such a space, a working-process is liberated allowing a wider visionary scope and access to a set of productive forces ordinarily not considered permissible. The sheer inclusivity afforded by the process achieves an extreme productivity that exposes the existing limitation of thesis, requiring its redefinition and transition to a wholly more pertinent educational instrument with new ambitions.