An exciting May meeting saw us sharing our final responses to the Creative Whispers project and it was fascinating to see the number of ‘threads’ that felt as though they had come, at least to some degree, to a conclusion in a full circle. There was some discussion that it had been challenging not to be influenced by the breadth of responses as well as the piece that was supposed to be the focus and many questioned the role of the subconscious in this. Being made aware of something, whether that be a material or conceptual approach may influence a practitioner unintentionally but are we always really aware of what we are aware of? Can we avoid our work being influenced by these things, whether that be through an attraction or an aversion to them and what does this imply for our work? Aside from an exploration of our relationships with spaces (domestic, urban and rural) which really did seem to underpin a vast majority of the work, one key question that seemed to come up in relation specifically to the collaborative element was that contrast between destruction and preservation; is it acceptable to destroy in order to develop or should we aim to preserve wherever possible?
I shall skip over these issues in written form as briefly as we did at the meeting; we swiftly moved on to the nuts and bolts of planning the CRITshow on Saturday and it is at this event that we intend to really dig deep into the questions that have arisen from the project. On Saturday morning (you can join us from 10am); we will be sorting and displaying all the outcomes in one more or less logical form or another! Some talk has involved use of physical threads to illustrate the paths of response, while the likely display has also been described as something of a Venn diagram! We will then spend the afternoon in small groups responding further to the outcomes and indeed the entire project in a practical fashion, so there will even be a further series of collaborative outcomes! We will conclude with a discussion of both the project and the day and a bit more analysis of some of the previously mentioned observations along with anything else that crops up!
A very exciting development for CRITgroup and as far as I am concerned, the 25th of May can really not come soon enough!
Next month we will meet on Wednesday June 26th and there will probably be a ‘reflective debriefing’ on the May event in terms of what we have learned from the organisation of it but also how we want to move forward into phase 2 of our collaborative research project. If you are interested in getting involved, I highly recommend coming along to that meeting, even if you can’t make it on Saturday the 25th!
I shall skip over these issues in written form as briefly as we did at the meeting; we swiftly moved on to the nuts and bolts of planning the CRITshow on Saturday and it is at this event that we intend to really dig deep into the questions that have arisen from the project. On Saturday morning (you can join us from 10am); we will be sorting and displaying all the outcomes in one more or less logical form or another! Some talk has involved use of physical threads to illustrate the paths of response, while the likely display has also been described as something of a Venn diagram! We will then spend the afternoon in small groups responding further to the outcomes and indeed the entire project in a practical fashion, so there will even be a further series of collaborative outcomes! We will conclude with a discussion of both the project and the day and a bit more analysis of some of the previously mentioned observations along with anything else that crops up!
A very exciting development for CRITgroup and as far as I am concerned, the 25th of May can really not come soon enough!
Next month we will meet on Wednesday June 26th and there will probably be a ‘reflective debriefing’ on the May event in terms of what we have learned from the organisation of it but also how we want to move forward into phase 2 of our collaborative research project. If you are interested in getting involved, I highly recommend coming along to that meeting, even if you can’t make it on Saturday the 25th!
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