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Intervention during a workshop in Linz in 2007

What is Street Training?

Street Training is the art of judging how to and how not to interact with place and people on the streets, by regularly, safely and joyfully exploring ourselves and the spaces we inhabit. Street Training teaches us that, by focusing our thoughts and behavior, we can have an effect on our surroundings equal to that which our surroundings exert upon us. As changes take place within the street trainer they also take place in the streets: it is a discipline that evolves interactively in relation to physical, social and mental structures that make up the city. Street Training focuses on the conditions of specific urban locations through the senses of specific individuals and frames them in a way that can be tested in any global city.

Street Training is an emergent 21st century Martial Art. It requires commitment and sustained practice, and encompasses the physical, mental and spiritual aspects of being. It rewards the Street Trainer with incremental changes in their ability to defend themselves against the bombardment of city life, and shape their environment positively.

you can download the Camberwell Street Training Manual here
http://malinky.org/files/camberwell_v4_ARTWORK.pdf
its the combined wisdom, on the subjects of safety and joy in the streets, of many people including people walking around the streets of Camberwell in summer 2007

Street Training Code/how to

In the streets where you are

Walk
Or
Take public transport
Or
Stay in one public place

Notice what you
See
Hear
Think
Feel
Desire
Do
Touch
Smell

Notice what others
Express
Hide
Do
Don’t do
Wear
Defend
Obstruct
Enforce
Challenge
Customize
Play with
Sell
Make
Carry
Do
And how they move

As you notice, decide how you will respond or not, react or not, proact or not, engage or not
Or
Spontaneously do what you feel and deal with the consequences

Did we 'Do It With Others'?

A few of the Street Trainers (Lottie, Emily & Aileen) will be in London this weekend at Furtherfield taking part in the event titled 'Doing It With Others'. http://www.furtherfield.org/furtherprojects.php. This event invites a range of collaborative practitioners to make presentations and look at the methods they use to 'do it with others'.

I'd like to take this oportunity to think about how we did or did not do it with others during Street Training, Linz. To think about how this project might be important as a collaborative practice and how we might develop it to include others more. I am curious to find out how you, as an onlooker, participant or organiser of Street Training felt about how we were 'doing it with others'.

At any point during the project did you get a feeling of doing it with othersness?

What was it that encouraged that feeling?

At any point did you feel like you worked collaboratively with the project?

Did you at feel like you were involved with the co-production of the project / artwork?

Did you feel like your contribution was a central part of the practice?

I'd like to think about what what Mark Garrett ment by the term Soft Groups and how this might help a playful development of Street Training.

THOUGHTS ON THE NIGHT WALK IN LINZ FOR ARS ELECTRONICA

is this too public a place for my thoughts and evaluation of street training in Linz?

POSTED BY LOTTIE CHILD - THOUGHTS ON THE NIGHT WALK
why do any particular intervention? one answer might be - just because we can - there seems value in the confidence building that playful deviation from dictated, conditioned behaviour creates. It is for each person to judge if their desired activity is the right thing to do. what i'm keen to develop and i think we did it well during the May street training sessions/workshops - is a group dynamic that can contain experimentation, allow for challenge of codes and self and at the same time be a positive intervention in space and have a positive effect on the person doing it.