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Quilting infrastructures

Special Issue 23 notes, observations, reflections, findings

Neighbourhood lab

page dedicated to community empowerment in urban context. the aim is to collect tools and focus on potential of neighbourhoods as learning environments

Neighbourhoods as learning environments

Library  - non commercial space. its a public leaving room, a place for knowledge sharing and knowledge production. Its a public good. Third place - not work not home

CheFare

https://che-fare.com What does it mean to transform public society?

- Changing power structure of society - Participation processes - Mobilizing, collective intelligence (library, museums, independent cultral centres, public spaces…) - Tools; mediation, translation (different intrests, trying to move power balance. Rebuild new discourses. Interdisciplinarity)

Role of conflict in participation -radical mediation

- Creating new power relations

Be clear with the participants on the purpose of the involvement. Kick off moment to define a clear way how we will work what are the shapes of the involvement.

1. RECONNAISSANCE The firts step is to understand the context from multiple perspectives Defining the target area, assesing the community involved , with their needs and issues

2. ENGAGEMENT

3. STORYTELLING / narratives Finding the right connection and perspective Setting expectations Communicating ideas / sharing vision Using storytelling practices

4. CO-CREATION

5. REFLECTION Assesing the impact of whatr is co-produced

Glossary: Essentail part of participatory projects. Trying to understand what do we mean by different terms.

COMPENDIUM OF LOCAL EXPERIENCES - LOCAL LABS

Sevilla local lab - Rosalia Guiterres and Julia Cortegana Zemos98

Create a common story of the neighbourhood, open to public, Archival gathering

Video magnetic tapes

Sofia local lab - yanina taneva, ideas factory

Glossary with common words A local market Creating a map - set as a common vision, common goal. For axample; map of tastes

A walk - a simple walk is a bridge to trust building

Marseille local lab

Participatory projects Promote initiatives of local organisations

Give visibility to co-creation projects

Palermo local lab

There is Fruit market in the neighbourhood, flee market clsose to cathedral, involve vendors of the market, started with interviewing them, gove light to the market ,

Storytelling workshops - peole where going to the shops and choosing objects and then creating a story

Together they are strong as vendors of the market. They have a cultural value that can be shared..

Between the vendors there where not always good relations…

Vendor - sprzedawca, handlarz

Berlin local lab - Luismi Gueli

Cultural transformation Breakfast club + sharing information about the neighbourhood - everyone bring something How the group of woman support each other and are there for each other

Film maker

Process of opening up and sharing and breakig up bubles, trying to build bridges between different spheres

Sharing our backround, coming from different places with different experiences and leaving aboroad

We are often trying to create something new, but you can strenghten what is already happeing.

	 You want A place that is more lively and respectful considering there are people coming from different cultures.

How to adress the hard aspects imposed on the residents. How to find the balance. There are some limits

QUESTIONS

What triggers you what kind of knoledhge do you need to start being a neighbourhood facilitaor?

---->>> Being curious about a specific space, willingness to engage , involve people and build a relationship with them. Create a story with them which gives voice to the residents. And then reflection ; a tool like engagement diary.

Frustracion; acknowledging existing problems, and learning, creatong learning community which is constantly learning

CHANGING NEIGHBOURHOODS

Learning from a process of social transformation What's IN-HABIT?

IN_HABIT Palmeras , "las Palmeras is one of the 5 poorest neighbourhood of Spain

Local peiople are the real experts, ask them what is happening in their ara , how they live and what they need

Empowerment as the motor of change

GOVERNING COMMONS

The Mumbai Ensemble

Dharavi - The most dense neibourhood in the city Not necesarilly helping each other but learning from each other…

Schools at the centre of the future:

in Brescia, urban regenerationstarts from educational contexts - Camilla Pinoli Brescia neighbourhood Spazio lampo - listening and involvement processes

HAU TO CONNECT

practices of belonging to a neighbourhood Who has never use this places How can we take action for a past and present inequalities?

s o l i d a r i t y 

Listen to a place

Look what is already out there

What are the limitations of the practice?

Who is active?

How can you support what is already happening

Curate a dialogue

Look at the space as if you are looking at it for the first time

Have patience

Have you changed after the work?

Try different tactics

Find like minded people

Whose perspectives are misssing?

Practice power sharing

What participants need?

Turn it into a graphic novel

How participants perceive gentrification?

Invite your neigbours for a picnic

Draw portraits of your neighbours and ask them for their stories

Be present at the local markets

Give small things a big stage

Don't be afraid of words

Look at the means of production

Be aware

Communal love

Make the work visible

Do u have support ?

Be aware of your power

Be soft

Step back, give voice

Share autorship

how to implement feminists methods

L'ecole des communs

Walking - to get out of the 'buble' (reapriopriate the streets with adults and kids) Games- to connect theory to practices of commons + to unravel; imaginaries of sharing Local research

Temporlity

What our initiative leaves in time?

Documentation- languages to make visible the invisible (how do we let these experience speak for themselves and make it accesible for the publics that are not in tje neighbourhoods)

48-hour momentum

Transforming and enjoying Closing a road for a festival

Córka właścieciela restauracji która była ' facilitator", ojciec już nie zyje, wczesniej w jego restauracji ludzie wymieniali się informacjami i poznawali się i community kwitło tam

>>>>>>>There is a lot happening that is invisible. Coffe places where neighbours meet and share information. Work of care . Pharmacies…

Pleasure - is a recource that always function !

Exploring neighbourhoods - creative approach

day 2

DESCIVER CREATE ACT - RESHAPING THE LOCAL BY CO-DESIGN PROJECT WITH CHILDREN AND YOUTH

talk by Hendrik Weiner

Co-design project as a research tool- planning, design, and research not for or about people but with and by people concerned & interested

"those affected by a design should have a say in the design process" ~Bjogvinsson, Ehn, Hillgren 2012

- Scandinavian Participatory Design (PD) (Ehn, Nilsson, Topgaard 2014) - Participatory Action Research (PAR) (Kindon, Pain, Kesey 2010) _'research through design' + 'research by design' (Jonas 2007)

Methods:

• to perceive; expedition / walks
• to design; model making / collage /drawing/ building
• to produce and organise; build and cook / buy materials
• to interact and intervene; street performances/ mobile kitchen, street exhibition/ park(ing) day

Conclusion

• mutual learning process for all participants
• variable roles in the project
• new viewpoints, skills, networks
• starting point of local networks and co-productions
• instruments of outreach work
• local co-design project as participative method of urban design

UNDRAWING THE NEIGHBOURHOOD WITH CHILDREN

talk by Kitti Baracsi

Who produces knowledge on the city?

• Collective learning
• Projects with children - its not about teaching them something but together with them create a knowledge about a city

• Produce and share knowledge on their neighbourhood and complex urban issues, in collaboration with adults
• Creative formts as legitimate research output

Methodology

• What do we know?- collective counter maps of the neighbourhood
• What do we want to learn about?- exploratory walks(observation in the street ; sonic, visual map) ,map, etnographic research in the neighbourhood(interviews, drawings, photo, audio, and more)
• What do we wanmt to share from what we have learnt?reflection circles, drawing after the interviews as an analytical tool telling the stories, stop motion, collective maps, exhibition, tour, musical album

How children visualise the cities of today and tommorrow? The main qestion was what is the human heritage - children went to ask people

Kids recorded interviews, talked with people in local shops … Its possible to do research in different way then a text

Graffiti as a critical tool

• Graffiti as alternative narrative and use it as a prompt for discussion
• Walking as a accessible tool
• Territorial tags
• Gentrification
• "Berlin is dead" ---> So how did it die? Was it alive before?
• Its not about knowing but about exploring

Brachland: Audiowalk about urban utopias in weissensee

Katya romanova

Part of collective reimagine city - different methods, how you can explore the neighbourhoods

 Berlin bones - podcast

Research tools

• photo, walks, derive
• mapping
• Studying existing project
• Attending local events
• Interviews / street conversations
• Documentartion/ photos, videos, sound, text

We tend to pass the empty spaces by...

• How this place came to be ?
• What is the future of this place?
• Why its surrounded with fence?

audio walk ~ Let your imagination fly and picture what u want ~

audio walk as an informational tool, but what's next?

Walk - the last point where the wasteland became a pop up bar for one evening (where participants quilted, crafted it together)

consider Temporarily use for some spaces where there is still nothing built there

Collective podcast: Weaving our voices together

Ways of building a narrative and understanding the importance of the story

I attended a workshop by Julia Cortegan and Paolo Pizzo where we focused on collectively building a narrative to create a podcast episode.

A collective narrative is a synthesis of many voices and an open exchange of thoughts and conversations, as well as the sharing of ideas. We started with mini interviews with each other, asking a few questions about 3 main keywords. Then, we wrote down the essence of these conversations and exchanges of ideas on pieces of paper. As a whole group, we went through what was repeating, whether we were seeing any patterns standing out, and from there, we decided what aspects we want to highlight and what tone our story would take. We finished the Workshop with the live recording of the last episodeof the podcast produced by Edu-City partners based on the conclusions of the conference.

Workshop description

Summary of interviews

missed connections

sketchbook

A missed connection is a type of personal advertisement which arises after two people meet but are too shy or otherwise unable to exchange contact details. The "Missed Connections" section of Craigslist gets thousands of ads of this type every month in New York City, San Francisco, and Seattle.[1]

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inspired by Imgaemagick and how to manipulate an image with this tool I created this collage about missed connections. I was trying to cut out parts of the bigger picture and change the paths that those characters took

hand drawn maps

notes about hand drawn maps

It's such a human thing that we want to remember, travel, discover, explore the unknown and document, and hand-drawn maps remind me of this.

Institute of play

Sandbox for experiments and happy accidents

How to do things differently

This zine is a guide in a time of crisis. When you feel stuck, you can follow the green line to get some instructions, cause “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”. ..............................................................................................................So observe the world upside down, walk backwards or do an elephant walk, use your left hand, or write your name with plasticine and fill your source of inspiration. This zine was made fully in Excel, cause I also felt uninspired and needed to to do something differently.

Kate Bush dance

Podsumowałam sobie ten rok i mimo, że strasznie dużo płakałam, to ten rok był też na maksa przygodowy i wiele udało mi się osiągnąć. Przeprowadziłam się do Rotterdamu do starego holenderskiego domu z ogrodem. Mój projekt oznakowań funkcjonuje w przestrzeni publicznej w Amsterdamie. Dostałam staż w Rotterdamie na którym mi bardzo zależało. Dostałam się na wymarzone studia! Nauczyłam się dużo nowych rzeczy: jeździć na deskorolce, grać na ukulele, chodzić po linie. Moja ilustrowana książka była na wystawie w Katowicach. Cały rok tańczyłam i chodziłam na ściankę wspinaczkową i już jestem w to suuper! Zaprojektowałam logo na wielki holenderski event. Przeczytałam mnóstwo książek i obejrzałam prawie wszystkie dokumenty Agnes Vardy. Uczestniczyłam w wielu szalonych warsztatach o interaktywnych tkaninach czy budowaniu z chleba. Poznałam wspaniałych ludzi, z którymi potem jeździłam stopem po Francji, bawiłam się na najmiejszym pod słońcem festiwalu filmowym, oglądałam noc spadających gwiazd we Włoszech. Dostałam pracę jako graficzka i ilustratorka. Moje ziny były na targach zinów. Robiłam dużo rzeczy poza moją strefą komfortu. A na koniec roku zorganizowałam sobie samotny wypad do Berlina, gdzie poznałam świetnych australijczyków.

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