[-empyre-] week four | engagement with place/from Helen

[Babak Fakhamzadeh]

I suppose what you're asking about is whether any of the projects
discussed this month also happen in the real world, as opposed to just
online or on the screen.

With Dérive app, we facilitate workshops where the participants create
a deck of task cards related to their urban environment and the
general subject of the workshop. The result is a deeper understanding
of the urban environment the workshop is held in.

More on this: http://deriveapp.com/s/v2/workshops/

And, of course, the obvious, Dérive app works on a mobile device, but
is used while exploring the real world.

Babak Fakhamzadeh
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On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 5:40 PM, Helen De Michiel
<helen at thirtyleaves.org> wrote:
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> Hello friends,
> Happy birthday wishes to Dale!  Both you and I share birthdays around Thanksgiving Day (US), so we both actually have our birthdays before, on or after the holiday.
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> I have a few general notes I've made reading and considering the issues that you all have raised this month. These are fragments, unresolved ideas that I'm thinking about these projects people are making…
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> For me, I see these projects as hacks into the system.  As creative and radical bursts, flares in the dark sky.
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> As an artist, I'm always looking for a coherency…that's available to any casual visitor, a grounding in a reality I can relate to in my real life.
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> Can a coherent narrative be available and understood in the abundant, dynamic and decontextualized internet environment and actually have meaning for people beyond the screen?
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> In the case of Lunch Love Community (evolved across platforms, and recontextualized several times over four years) the 'holding frame' became our live event with the short films, what we call the "Media Social" to gather people together to discuss and share stories about food issues that the films surface for the viewers. From sharing stories, people would gain a greater awareness of the bigger ecology that moved from our bodies, our communities and the environment.
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> We opened up a dialogue space which leads to awareness and, in time, significant political action.  More on that in another post.
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> Let's talk more about context and engagement with specific places!
>
> Helen De Michiel
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