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 +Exploring the region: 
 +  * [[http://www.coloursofistria.com/en/nature-and-camping/flora-and-fauna/giants-of-motovun-forest|the Motovun forest]]
 +  * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motovun|Motovun town]]
 +  * [[http://www.parenzana.net/en/home_page|Parenzana trail]]
  
 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 something else?+  * How can a story be dislocated and become something else?
   * 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's volcano story,    * Miranda's volcano story, 
-  * the "red sunset" saying (in Italian: Rosso di sera - bel tempo si spera; rosso di mattina - pioggia si avvicina)+  * the "red sunset" saying (in Italian: Rosso di sera - bel tempo si spera; rosso di mattina - pioggia si avvicina) and other aphorisms and proverbs (aka weatherlore)
   * 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't often mean nice weather...). Do we need new annotations or re-interpretations of these texts to reflect our time?+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't only mean nice weather the next day, but could signal unexpected fires and other calamities). Do we need new annotations or re-interpretations of these texts to reflect our time?
  
 <graphviz dot center> <graphviz dot center>
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   * (photographer)   * (photographer)
  
-The stories can be expressions of emotions, such as the threat of the body being destroyed, or a storyteller gardening or foraging the landscape, or warnings (weather, poisons…), or tales of folk wisdom…+The stories we're looking at could be expressions of emotions, such as the threat of the body being destroyed. They could also be seen as a way for a  storyteller to garden or forage the inner and outer landscape. As with oral storytelling, the stories could be warnings (weather, poisons…) in disguise, or tales of folk wisdom (weatherlore)
  
 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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 // No one knows what rolls behind the mountain // // No one knows what rolls behind the mountain //
 {{>https://secure.flickr.com/photos/foam/10086807063/}} {{>https://secure.flickr.com/photos/foam/10086807063/}}
-//Što mi je s svijetom, to mi je s cvijetom //+//All flowers of the future are in the seed of the present//
  
 {{>https://secure.flickr.com/photos/foam/10086692854/}} {{>https://secure.flickr.com/photos/foam/10086692854/}}
 //Furious storm passes quickly // //Furious storm passes quickly //
 {{>http://flickr.com/photos/foam/10084173786/}} {{>http://flickr.com/photos/foam/10084173786/}}
-//We are the authors of our own disasters | Musings on stories, ethnobotany and plant mythology//+//Experience is the mother of science | Musings on stories, ethnobotany and plant mythology//
  
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-For translations see [[various_aphorisms]] 
  
 === Weather lore === === Weather lore ===
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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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 ====Notes from 20131007==== ====Notes from 20131007====
   * further exploration and illustration of [[various aphorisms]]   * further exploration and illustration of [[various aphorisms]]
-  * visit to groznjan to check on persistent plots...+  * visit to [[http://histrica.com/istria/green/buje/groznjan/|Groznjan]] to check on persistent [[plot_world_context|plots]]...
  
 {{>https://secure.flickr.com/photos/foam/10137492246/}} {{>https://secure.flickr.com/photos/foam/10137492246/}}
 //Tradition must be a springboard to the future, not an easy chair for resting.// //Tradition must be a springboard to the future, not an easy chair for resting.//
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 +{{>http://flickr.com/photos/foam/10160093494}}
 +//She who foretells the future lies, even if she tells the truth//
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 +**Design Fiction**
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 +Bruce Stirling: Design fiction is the deliberate use of diegetic prototypes to suspend disbelief about change. That’s the best definition we’ve come up with.  The important word there is diegetic. It means you’re thinking very seriously about potential objects and services and trying to get people to concentrate on those rather than entire worlds or political trends or geopolitical strategies. It’s not a kind of fiction. It’s a kind of design. It tells worlds rather than stories. 
 +  * http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/03/02/bruce_sterling_on_design_fictions_.html
 +  * http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/category/design-fiction/
 +  * http://nearfuturelaboratory.com/2009/03/17/design-fiction-a-short-essay-on-design-science-fact-and-fiction/
 +  * http://futuryst.blogspot.be/search/label/FoundFutures
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 ====Notes from 20131008==== ====Notes from 20131008====
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   * aphorisms, determinism and [[prediction markets]]   * 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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 +<html><iframe src="//player.vimeo.com/video/76443600" width="500" height="281" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe> <p><a href="http://vimeo.com/76443600">Tale of a child and the weathermakers</a> at <a href="http://vimeo.com/fo4m">foam</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p></html>
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 +<html><iframe src="//player.vimeo.com/video/76439538" width="500" height="281" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe> <p><a href="http://vimeo.com/76439538">parenzana weatherlore</a> at <a href="http://vimeo.com/fo4m">foam </a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p></html>
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 +====Notes from 20131009====
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 +drive from Motovun -> Linz
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 +Future Fabulators workshop http://libarynth.org/future_fabulators/index and http://fo.am/future_fabulators
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 +A constructive observation of a participatory process to elicit ideas about possible futures. More about the scenario building process: 
 +  * [[:/future_fabulators/scenario_design_201310|Scenario Design sessions]]: scenarios and session descriptions from Linz
 +  * [[:/resilients/prehearsal_pocket_guide| Prehearsal Pocket Guide]]: step by step guide to creating scenarios and prehearsals
 +  * [[:/resilients/prehearsing_the_future|Prehearsing the Future]]: article about why scenarios and prehearsals/pre-enactments
 +  * [[:/resilients/future_preparedness|Future Preparedness]]: collection of notes about FoAM's work on future preparedness
 +  * [[:/resilients/from_pan_to_panarchy|Pan to Panarchy]]: article about the 'panarchy' model
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 +This could be abridged to assist with the communication of stories based on weather lore across diverse communities in Australia or else where. 
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 +Meeting and networking with likeminded individuals and organisations from across Europe.
 +  * Valentina Nisi, Alberto Velez Grilo (University of Madeira)
 +  * Tina Auer, Andrea Strasser, Marc9, Andreas Mayrhoffer & Tim Boyket (Time's Up Austria)
 +  * Rarita Zbranca and Istvan Szakats (AltArt Romania)
 +
 +====Notes from 20131015====
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 +**Discussions at foam Brussels**
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 +Tim Boykett
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 +Tim spoke about people resettling from one geographical place to another and still living by the weather lore of the first place. Hence a misunderstanding of the seasons/weather leading to dire consequences for the environment of the next place. For example the Noonga people in Western Australia considered their part of the world to have six seasons but when it was settled by the English they brought their idea of four seasons with them.
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 +Rasa Alksnyte 
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 +Rasa gave direct feedback on the project as she had read about it in these notes. Firstly she found the focus of the project very vast in respect to potential outcomes. This could be considered a bit unfocussed, however she thought that if the main idea becomes clearer then it was very exciting to have a project with so many potential forms. 
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 +  * The videos could be reconsidered in respect to what needs to be said in words and what can be said in images. There was also a question of language and whether text would be best received spoken over the images. We discussed the tone of storytelling and considered the addition of a fictive language based around tonal sounds of storytelling.
 +  * She liked that we worked closely with who and what was at the residency. We discussed that my perception about the work I am making has altered since becoming a mother. I might observe and listen differently, carry myself differently and relate to others in new ways, so including my baby in the work was apt, honest and personal.
 +  * In respect to physical languages, she recommended that I study the gestures of mothers and babies in paintings by Brueghel or Bosch.
 +  * I spoke about body weather and how there are physical processes to train the dancer/ performer to embody their environment.
 +  * We discussed the potential for theatrical scenarios to develop from the images and proverbs, live art installations and participatory performance or even community workshops could work well with the idea of weather lore.
 +  * Rasa suggested that I try to clarify several of the potential outcomes as goals and determine the real possibilities of each so that each incarnation is not necessarily a search for one main outcome but rather an individual focus with its own aims and goals. 
 +  * We discussed the weather and atmosphere in Brussels and considered where this work might sit in respect to potential presentation outcomes in the future. The conversation then turned towards the suggestion that my next visit could be to locate presenters and performance opportunities. 
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 +Nik Gaffney
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 +   * Nik suggested that I look into the possibility of foam presenting a future scenario building workshop in Adelaide. 
 +   * I considered introducing Nik and Maja to some peers in Adelaide who are skilled in theatrical improvisation to propose tools for their physical pre-hearsals. 
 +
 +====Notes from 20131016====
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 +In the beginning of the residency we had a discussion about which natural disasters occur in Istria. We couldn't think of any except bush fires. However, today Maja dug up the Istrian folk tales book in Pula and found another disaster that has been troubling the region for centuries: it seems that hail is the weather phenomenon considered mythical enough to make it into several legends. It is often related to misfortune of young children (especially those who died before being christened, or those strangled by their mothers). Hail and thunder becomes their way of communicating (usually their anger) with the living world. Aside from children, witches and priests are also known to be able to summon very localised and destructive hail storms.
  
 +Ref. Boskovic-Stulli, Maja (1959). Istarske Narodne Price. Institut za Narodnu Umjetnost, Zagreb
  
-draft videos  
  
-{{>https://vimeo.com/76443600}}+==== residency report ==== 
 +  * see [[research report parenzana]]
  
-{{>https://vimeo.com/76439538}} 
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