Ten students. One project. One term. No marks.
Each of those four decisions was made against an obvious alternative, and every alternative would have been easier to run and easier to sell.
Ten
A practitioner can hold ten sets of work in their head. At twenty they stop responding to the work in front of them and start delivering a lesson to the room.
One project
A new activity each week produces a folder of beginnings. A term spent producing one thing produces the experience of pushing past the point where it stopped being fun.
No marks
A mark answers a question nobody in the studio asked. The work goes on a wall, in front of the people who know the maker. That is a harder test than a number, and a more honest one.