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   * [[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:
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   * 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.
-  * [[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]]...
+  * visit to [[http://histrica.com/istria/green/buje/groznjan/|Groznjan]] to check on persistent [[plot_world_context|plots]]...
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 drive from Motovun -> Linz
-Future Fabulators workshop http://libarynth.org/future_fabulators/index
+Future Fabulators workshop http://libarynth.org/future_fabulators/index and http://fo.am/future_fabulators
+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
-A constructive observation of a participatory process to elicit ideas about possible futures.
 This could be abridged to assist with the communication of stories based on weather lore across diverse communities in Australia or else where.
 Meeting and networking with likeminded individuals and organisations from across Europe.
-  * Valentina Nisi Assistant Professor University of Madeira
+  * Valentina Nisi, Alberto Velez Grilo (University of Madeira)
-  * Alberto Velez Grilo
+  * Tina Auer, Andrea Strasser, Marc9, Andreas Mayrhoffer & Tim Boyket (Time's Up Austria)
-  * Tina Auer, Andrea Strasser, Marc9, Andreas Mayrhoffer & Tim Boyket Time's Up Austria
+  * Rarita Zbranca and Istvan Szakats (AltArt Romania)
-  * Rarita Zbranca and Istvan Szakats
+====Notes from 20131015====
+**Discussions at foam Brussels**
+Tim Boykett
+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.
+Rasa Alksnyte
+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.
+  * 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.
+Nik Gaffney
+   * We discussed potential developments from the residency, Nik suggested there may be oportunities to involve people in scenario building workshops in Adelaide (esp. "festival of ideas")
+   * Nik and Maja would be interested in working with people in Adelaide who have improvisation skills (performance, theatrical or political) to further develop tools and training for prehearsals.
+====Notes from 20131016====
+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
+**Sounds from Matt**
+<html><iframe width="100%" height="166" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/115606889"></iframe></html>
+<html><iframe width="100%" height="166" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/115606892"></iframe></html>
+**Miranda's Weather**
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+// //
 ==== residency report ====
   * see [[research report parenzana]]
+==== Notes from 20140603 ====
+==== Adhocracy Residency Preparation ====
+A year on from the residency at Parenzana in Istria, we are digging deeper with the research on both Weather Lore and Future Forecasting. In keeping with the form and structure of the first residency, we are again contextualising the project as a family in residence. Over four days our family, Matt, Miranda (5yrs), Florence (1yr) and myself will inhabit the foyer of the Waterside Workers Hall home of Vitalstatistix Theatre Company in Port Adelaide. Nik and Maya will contribute via a remote presence through these notes and participate through a skype presence in an artist talk on Future Forecasting on Monday the 9th June.
+Speculative Culture/ Weather Lore is a project exploring future forecasting and sustainable living in a time of rapid climate change. It is a family-based project exploring weather lore and future forecasting through a series of cultural strategies.
+History is full of rhymes, anecdotes, and proverbs meant to guide the uncertain in determining whether the next day will bring fair or foul weather. Farmers watched the sky colour to know when to sow and reap. Mariners noted wind and waves for signs of change. Contemporary weather lore often manifests from people’s anxiety about a future of floods, famine and fires. The question is how does the superstitious or curious imagination make sense of all this?
+The project is utilising a future forecasting methodology which encourages people to investigate living in a range of possible futures, designed as artistic experiments.  The methodology takes uncertainty as a creative challenge, a call for cultural work in which visions of everyday life in the time ahead become tangible and discussable.
+The Neville-Thomas family subscribe to a sustainable, resilient way of life where they grow their own food, fish locally, raise chickens and work closely with local natural resources. At Adhocracy we will explore speculative cli-fi scenarios, document dialogues with farmers and fishers, develop digital stories and sound scores, conduct pop-up future forecasting and other cultural interventions within the Adhocracy event, cook, tend to plants, look after their children and conduct artist talks about the diverse facets of this cultural endeavour.
+==== Notes from 20140604 ====
+Subsequently we are continuing to collect Weather Lore proverbs both via the internet and in discussion with Fishers and Farmers.
+  * Additions to [[various_aphorisms]]
+Further research has foccussed on media depictions of Global Warming and Future Forecasts.
+  * http://www.mappingvulnerabilityindex.com/home/adelaidevi
+  * http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-06-02/city-designs-must-change-in-face-of-deadlier-heatwaves-experts/5494124