Gathering on the roof of the parking garage, shouting into the street, drinking warm coffee, walking through the city to the bridge, leaving traces, in and out of a tall building, making music with a fountain ...
Then
Doing nothing ...
What impressions are left? What kind of thoughts and reflections were evoked?
What did it feel like?
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I felt cold and tired in the park doing nothing and was not sure who we were talking to and why.
When we were in the OK centre it felt more relevant to do nothing in place where people were consuming art. It seemed to mean more in that place than in the park.
What was it about the translation of the same action in different places and different publics?
Taking a more careful look at the interventions that took place on the night walk.
I thought the bridge intervention was visually stunning, changed the way the bridge looked, changed the function of the bridge and the cars into a cloud and line making machine
in terms of team building it bonded those who identified and alienated those who didn't - Chantal Mouffe' writes that public space is constituted through conflict. Creating this situation required people to think about what is appropriate behaviour in public space in general and i wonder if it induced some people to consider what their own codes are and ask questions such as should such a public intervention only take place with prior warning?
I feel stressed when i'm part of a group where some one does something that puts themselves in danger - this stress if horrible and maybe avoidable or maybe its a neccesary part of the process. I wonder if climbing the crane was a good idea - i think it stressed a few people and excluded people, if there had been more climbing prior to this if, more people had played, stepped out of observer role it might have just been part of the fun. Afterwards we talked about game playing as a good way to include people. and doing activities from the workshops could be a good introduction. this is not unrealistic with more time an intro a game could kick a session off.
this leads me to - i think i put emphasis on all of us deciding what we would do and where we would go.. because there were so many people on the roof of the carpark it was unrealistic and so i contradicted myself - there was no consensus neither was there a preplanned route and set of activities. i was trying to make a balance between informal generating wandering drifting and building on the good work of the street trainers team, the good ideas we had previously.
if a group of people are involved should there first be a consensus about the intervention undertaken?
how could consensus descision making work in the moment in a group in this context??
for the next street training sessions there will be more 'curating' activities will be planned and a route will be identified. ideally though we will know the terrain enough to have a few directions that we can go. i'm not sure what factors should decide the direction.
about the street-training in Linz I want to say that it was a very important experience for me. I thought, I´m walking through my city with open eyes, but to DO things in open space that can enchant the surrounding: wow! of course the workshop in may was absolutely neccesairy for the nightwalk. my impression even was that those, who didn´t join the workshop, could not see the idea of the nigtwalk. they actually left the group very soon. all preparations help to be spontaneous and creative during later activities, because we know how to move and think in public space without affending others or disturbing nature.
for all coming street-trainers I wish all the best and say THANK YOU to Lottie who is a very special woman.
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