Workshop day 2
Originally uploaded by Alice Angus
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Originally uploaded by Alice Angus
Its taken me a couple of days to gather my thoughts after the weekend. These first two days were an amazing unpacking of of people work, the contexts we work in and our aspirations. We are with an awe inspiring group of talented people and the amount of thinking and creativity that came out over the weekend was inspirational. It has been especially interesting to me to get to explore the idea of ‘creative city’ as shared, flexible, movable space and see how our different approaches and the work we do shapes that vision. Over the two days we created about 60 storycubes - using then freely to investigate, record, think around ideas. We also made many drawings on tables and walls, you can see pictures on http://www.flickr.com/groups/lattice_sydney/
There’s a new issue of the Trans/forming Cultures eJournal called Landscapes of Meaning: South Asia-Australia Connections: environment & people, which touches on a few of the issues explored in our project.
so…..we put our stories on the table….using it like a platform. The story cubes kept us running around and producing our stories into the table. i found the activitity we did in the past 2 days facinating really. To me, it wasn’t just ” talking about you do ” but it was also like a ” hi, how r u?” and really gave me a sense of ” you are very welcome into this platform .”
so i must say, it was really like a ” welcome to this place “ and i consider this a very good start!!!
probably i have been thinking a lot about how i got community people together to share their ideas. what would they feel like for the first time when they were in a kind of situation that they could say something……..
i made a 16-shot picture while also walking around and panning the camera. It reminds of a jigsaw which there are lots of pieces separated while also connected. dont know what im trying to say exactly but ..yeh..thats what i felt!!!
Thanks guys!!!!!
Today in the workshop, we were talking about the aspirations and goals we have for our work, the obstacles in the way of achieving them, and the steps we could take to overcome them and get there. Ali talked about his parkour practice, and in terms of this practice of urban movement, you look around and use what you have around you to negotiate your obstacles. Restating these big tasks in terms of the real movement of the body was very exciting and helpful.
Lattice::Sydney starts 23 February. Stay tuned!