Hi, I am Sonya Rawst. I'm a lecturer and team manager at program at University of Applied Sciences in Amsterdam. Program is called Communication and Multimedia Design. This is where I am at the moment and I also teach at the Master Applied AI in the same University of Applied Sciences. You can see here where we are and I would like to say that I've been really thankful to the resources and the network and all the very applicable worksheets card desks meetings that we have have been brought by Aix design it's been truly inspirational. I've been using it a lot as material for my classes where I teach about combination of AI and design both to design students and AI students so I am really happy that this is resources that are not funded by big tech companies so that's pretty hard to find these days. So I'm really happy about that and do support you. So hope to do more in future if.

Hello. Hi, this is Nadia from Ax Design and I'm reaching out to you with a little request. Basically, over the past year, you've either worked with us or participated in a program or somehow been part of the Ax Design community. And we would love to ask you for a small favor, which is that we are trying to both demonstrate and understand our impact and how we create value for people with the work we're doing for a few reasons. One, we need to write a report for the grant that we've received the past year and demonstrate the impact. And instead of, I don't know, listing numbers and vanity metrics, we would love some faces that speak about how AI's Design has brought them any meaning or value in whichever way to their practice or their network or their ideas. Two, it's because we need to apply to other grants, because we're out of funding and we need to figure out how to continue our existence. And so it helps to have real people other than ourselves sharing that the work we do is of value. And third, we're also sort of at a stage of reflection ourselves where we're figuring out what we really want to do and what is most meaningful for us to channel our efforts into. So that's why we're also reflecting on our impact ourselves. So that's why I would love to hear from you a short video about anything you feel comfortable sharing, about how Ax is on the community, the programs, the events have added anything to your life at all. How did you experience working with us or being in the community? In what ways has it helped or supported you, which could honestly be in so many ways. It could be in expanding ideas, like meeting people that you might collaborate with, just learning about interesting people's work or practice or art or anything. Anything that was meaningful to you. That's what I would love to hear about. It can be a long video, short video, anything at all. And also, please let us know either in the video or in a text or whatever. I'm also testing this tool because it's more fun than writing, but please let us know as well if you're comfortable with us using your video and your face, or if you would rather us only use your words in writing but not your face. Or, yeah, please give us consent in a way that you feel comfortable of us using. Yeah, what you said. So, yeah, even if you don't, we would still love to hear from you about the past year and what we've done and how it's been of value to you and your practice and your thoughts and your growth as a person. So, yeah, thank you. I hope to hear from you. And thank you also for being part of this journey so far and contributing in the way that you have and showing up and being in the community with us. So thank you and hope to talk soon. Have a lovely day. Bye.

Sonja Rouwhorst