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| + | Exploring the region: | ||
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| Questions to explore: | Questions to explore: | ||
| * How can stories be presented? | * How can stories be presented? | ||
| * What are people telling themselves? | * What are people telling themselves? | ||
| - | * How can a story be dislocated and becoming | + | * How can a story be dislocated and become |
| * What stories are told to understand the weather: how do historical myths relate to contemporary ones, e.g. sci-fi movies about ecological disasters, where stories are only told when the weather becomes extreme... what happens to all the other stories about weather in daily life? | * What stories are told to understand the weather: how do historical myths relate to contemporary ones, e.g. sci-fi movies about ecological disasters, where stories are only told when the weather becomes extreme... what happens to all the other stories about weather in daily life? | ||
| Creation myths in contrast to aphorisms and sayings about the weather and other natural phenomena, such as: | Creation myths in contrast to aphorisms and sayings about the weather and other natural phenomena, such as: | ||
| * Miranda' | * Miranda' | ||
| - | * the "red sunset" | + | * the "red sunset" |
| * the tribe escaping a tsunami by listening to an ancient myth and running up a mountain after recognising warning signs as predicted in the story | * the tribe escaping a tsunami by listening to an ancient myth and running up a mountain after recognising warning signs as predicted in the story | ||
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| - | Aphorisms include a heuristic approach to the world, they deal with probabilities rather than dogmas. What happens to age old sayings that might be less in tune with current climate chaos (when red sunsets don' | + | Aphorisms include a heuristic approach to the world, they deal with probabilities rather than dogmas. What happens to age old sayings that might be less in tune with current climate chaos (when red sunsets don' |
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| - | The stories | + | The stories |
| Task: Improvise the moments in the space, as improvised staging including the characters | Task: Improvise the moments in the space, as improvised staging including the characters | ||
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| - | //edible | + | //The nature of rain is always the same but it makes thorns grow in the desert and flowers in the garden. | Edible |
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| - | //stories, storytelling and plant mythology// | ||
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| - | // // | + | // No one knows what rolls behind the mountain |
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| + | //All flowers of the future are in the seed of the present// | ||
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| - | // // | + | //Furious storm passes quickly // |
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| * sayings, aphorisms, proverbs | * sayings, aphorisms, proverbs | ||
| * things we tell each other as short stories ("the sun has changed…" | * things we tell each other as short stories ("the sun has changed…" | ||
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| * The moon and the weather may change together, But a change of the moon, will not change the weather. | * The moon and the weather may change together, But a change of the moon, will not change the weather. | ||
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| * Red sky at night, Shepard’s delight; Red sky in morning, Shepard take warning. | * Red sky at night, Shepard’s delight; Red sky in morning, Shepard take warning. | ||
| * When ants travel in a straight line, expect rain; when they scatter, expect fair weather. | * When ants travel in a straight line, expect rain; when they scatter, expect fair weather. | ||
| + | * [[various_aphorisms]] | ||
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| === Divination and invocation in storytelling === | === Divination and invocation in storytelling === | ||
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| Divination: descriptive, | Divination: descriptive, | ||
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| === Oral - Written - Digital stories === | === Oral - Written - Digital stories === | ||
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| * Should we focus on myths and legends or ' | * Should we focus on myths and legends or ' | ||
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| * Finding historical and contemporary lore about observing animals as early warning systems for weather changes and natural disasters | * Finding historical and contemporary lore about observing animals as early warning systems for weather changes and natural disasters | ||
| * To discuss: cemetery of discarded stories (and dead media) | * To discuss: cemetery of discarded stories (and dead media) | ||
| + | * Community conversation on "the sun is different" | ||
| **Myths and Natural Early Warning Systems** | **Myths and Natural Early Warning Systems** | ||
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| + | ====Notes from 20131005 ==== | ||
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| + | === Conversation with Matt === | ||
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| + | * Human reactions to controlled environment (such as a city, http:// | ||
| + | * Weatherlore is an interesting direction, it seems more malleable than myths | ||
| + | * Evolutionary psychology - how much of our worldview is based on primitive responses? to research: meaning making in humans, in contrast to animals, who primarily respond to stimuli without trying to make sense out of it | ||
| + | * e.g difference between a bird sensing EM field in contrast to the human responses " | ||
| + | * human responses to stimuli: physical (tend to be dampened nowadays), mental (meaning making) | ||
| + | * sonic experiment - pre-disaster changes in EM field | ||
| + | * physical responses to the environment: | ||
| + | * (non)awareness of environmental changes: e.g. bushfire on an unusually hot day out of bushfire season in Adelaide Hills: seasons are more in flux, but people tend not to pay attention to signals from the environment. if the laws change to make an out-of-season fire instigation into criminal negligence - proof of acceptance of climate change. | ||
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| * How do humans make meaning of events that happen to them? | * How do humans make meaning of events that happen to them? | ||
| * The role of meaning in human thinking http:// | * The role of meaning in human thinking http:// | ||
| - | * | + | * Levi-Strauss postulates that myths serve to mediate conflicting or dualistic elements of society and life.The symbolic mediation in myths offers inspiration for culture and culture members to heal, flourish, or accept their reality.http:// |
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| + | ====Notes from 20131006==== | ||
| + | * staged photgraphs as design fiction and/or design noir. moments of mixed familiarity and unease (e.g. eating pizza in groznjan, machine readable objects, green sky, densisty of air, prevalence of monocles) | ||
| + | * decay and half-life of aphorisms. persistence of relevance in proverbs. graveyard of false lore, forgotten aphorisms. | ||
| + | * illustrations for contemporary proverbs and the future perspectives which make them appear quaint | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * [[various aphorisms]] | ||
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| + | ====Notes from 20131007==== | ||
| + | * further exploration and illustration of [[various aphorisms]] | ||
| + | * visit to Groznjan to check on persistent [[plot_world_context|plots]]... | ||
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| + | //Tradition must be a springboard to the future, not an easy chair for resting.// | ||
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| + | //She who foretells the future lies, even if she tells the truth// | ||
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| + | ====Notes from 20131008==== | ||
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| + | * aphorisms, determinism and [[prediction markets]] | ||
| + | * two DRAFT narrative video sketches using the same photographic material (shot by Nik) and weatherlore about changing weather. One about a child and her family of weathermakers and the other about a mutant able to commune with the biosphere: | ||
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| + | ====Notes from 20131009==== | ||
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| + | drive from Motovun -> Linz | ||
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| + | ==== residency report ==== | ||
| + | * see [[research report parenzana]] | ||
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