Ok - we need to plan ahead strategically.
Apparently INDA is not ready to organize a workshop and it is not advisable in my opinion to divide yourselves into 2, as if there was school life and real life...
Rather, and this will only be for my studio, i would like our group to work on the possible bridge between the 2 situations.
And this is not arbitrary, it is actually the way i meant it to be from the beginning (relating it to water and flood).
On one hand we have a very materially preoccupying situation,
on the other hand we have a project about the intangible.
I believe the interest lies in the link we can create between both.
If we place ourselves in the position of relieving people, we will not make stuff (toilets, beds, boats etc.) but we will instead start working on how to offer momentary escape for affected people - places where they could dream, imagine, travel.
A big part of traumas is actually do deal with the psychological consequences of the events and losses people have experienced. This is where our work will be.
Now we have been discussing this together yesterday, and i would like it to be continued in this way.
Please answer back to this post with comments and suggestions.
And ALL OF YOU now have to clearly define what their approach will be.
For some, the relation will be obvious, for the others we really need to discuss it so please write and send your work and proposals this week-end.
Ways to think about mental, psychological or even spiritual escape and/or relief :
- documentation of personal experiences
- dreams
- story telling (look at The Decameron by Boccaccio - very interesting parallel...) and imagination
- hypnosis
- art, theater and performances (research on the project Il teatro del mundo by Aldo Rossi)
- projection
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I especially need to see the work and ideas of
Prompt
Dream
Tyre
Noc
Marc
A
and we need clarification on the proposals for the rest of you as well....
For Pae, an obvious and very important reference about the obsession of numbers and games: the film Drowning by Numbers by Peter Greenaway.
Download and watch it! or if you can't for now, document yourself about it and we will discuss it durig next tutorial.
For direct action, based on an individual decision and responsibility, we have contacted V from Design for Disaster.
We could present to her your projects and intentions on Monday and see how we could maybe have a direct action.
Best of luck with everything.
2 comments:
So you specify us to create a space dealing with mentally relief and escape right? Then now we need to try relating our topic with the escaped idea. Like what kind of relief we want our space to be when people go in?
I'm not sure whether I got it right, please clarify :)
It does not need to be for relief purposes, but it needs to address the current situation. It needs to bring to a discussion, about maybe the power of water, of the under/hidden-world, the destructive power, the life force, the physical properties etc.
You will (all) have to develop this in relation to the work you already started. This might help you finding a "program", articulate what you are actually, and today, proposing.
This is why i would like you to watch this film - it does not go very far with the madness of numbers and of mathematics, but it is a first step in how to relate numbers, games, rules and human life.
Your project could be to provoke reactions also - do not be afraid of pushing it far beyond the mere intention of helping... It is very often a much more efficient way to help (in the long run).
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