|
Post by winston on Feb 3, 2010 21:26:03 GMT
If I've understood what you mean, this sounds good to me, I mean I think it would be good to have a question or experiment that the group could go there to investigate. Hmm, perhaps I'm thinking of 'London' where they're investigating 'the problem of London' - without necessarily knowing what that is. The call is for projects that address different camps in relation to utopias, far away worlds - Geodecity has been talked about as a Utopia, it is certainly far away at present - could our problem be how we get there as a group? Yeah, in terms of it needing to be about far away worlds, I think that it might be worth thinking about the idea of 'fabulation' or myth-making as a future orientated practice... the future as a place you make
|
|
|
Post by Bonus Eliphas on Feb 3, 2010 21:26:23 GMT
What the Geodecians do for Mannheim could be focused on their 'search for utopia'...? (perhaps a lost cause, but not necessarily a problem re: the idea of a utopia).
The Geodecian search for a homeland (in an ideological, not physical, sense)
|
|
|
Post by Buck Eliphas on Feb 3, 2010 21:29:15 GMT
The conversational threads you mention, how are they different from what the wiki was supposed to be? I expected the wiki might engage people in developing things in a conversational way without it being a conversation as such.
|
|
|
Post by Miranda Linden on Feb 3, 2010 21:30:37 GMT
The conversational threads you mention, how are they different from what the wiki was supposed to be? I expected the wiki might engage people in developing things in a conversational way without it being a conversation as such. yeah, it doesn't seem to work like that, i guess it seems more like a repository of knowledge that can be edited as things change, but isn't that chatty
|
|
|
Post by Bonus Eliphas on Feb 3, 2010 21:31:59 GMT
The conversational threads you mention, how are they different from what the wiki was supposed to be? I expected the wiki might engage people in developing things in a conversational way without it being a conversation as such. I imagine they'd be much more like the way discussion forums usually work. Quite different from the idea of using them for and online meeting (which I would imagine is quite unusual). The difference from the wiki is they'd be more linear, and less formal (or at least people would feel more comfortable about posting 'whatever' there).
|
|
|
Post by Ishtar Eliphas on Feb 3, 2010 21:33:04 GMT
Maybe the SL meetings are the chance to be more chatty and conversational?
|
|
|
Post by winston on Feb 3, 2010 21:33:06 GMT
The conversational threads you mention, how are they different from what the wiki was supposed to be? I expected the wiki might engage people in developing things in a conversational way without it being a conversation as such. yeah, it doesn't seem to work like that, i guess it seems more like a repository of knowledge that can be edited as things change, but isn't that chatty Yeah, that's kind of how i originally saw the wiki, but because it is so organised/structured it seems to discourage me from engaging with it in that way... i guess it's a psychological issue
|
|
|
Post by Miranda Linden on Feb 3, 2010 21:35:28 GMT
Maybe the SL meetings are the chance to be more chatty and conversational? but, i think you said this earlier anyway, it means people don't all have to be online at the same time if it's on a forum
|
|
|
Post by Dogme Eliphas on Feb 3, 2010 21:35:59 GMT
As a side not, as we have been talking I have also added a blog entry about the SL land. I am quite keen for the blog to continue, I thought it held interest in a different way.
|
|
|
Post by Ishtar Eliphas on Feb 3, 2010 21:36:22 GMT
That's true...
|
|
|
Post by Dogme Eliphas on Feb 3, 2010 21:36:33 GMT
|
|
|
Post by winston on Feb 3, 2010 21:37:24 GMT
As a side not, as we have been talking I have also added a blog entry about the SL land. I am quite keen for the blog to continue, I thought it held interest in a different way. shit... i'm not even sure i knew there was a blog where?... aha!
|
|
|
Post by Dogme Eliphas on Feb 3, 2010 21:38:11 GMT
The future as a place we make seem relevant to the 'call' and to Geodecity
|
|
|
Post by Miranda Linden on Feb 3, 2010 21:38:57 GMT
yeah, good about the blog, with regard to SL land, would be good to know how far it extends, and for geodecians to have permissions to build there etc (we may do already, can't remember)
|
|
|
Post by Buck Eliphas on Feb 3, 2010 21:40:05 GMT
What the Geodecians do for Mannheim could be focused on their 'search for utopia'...? (perhaps a lost cause, but not necessarily a problem re: the idea of a utopia). The Geodecian search for a homeland (in an ideological, not physical, sense) Id say this is a pretty good starting point for what would be a kind TGP residency from the Geodecian point of view. Just wonder how attractive that would be to the commissioning body and/or how we would make it more interesting than it just being a group of people living in a dome in a room talking about their ideal way of life and how to get there. I kind of feel like where the project has tried to engage tourists it has been a bit weak. The definate strength of the project is becoming geodecian and having a geodecian experience from the inside.
|
|