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parenzana_residency_notes [2013-10-15 18:01] – [Notes from 20131015] sarah.nevilleparenzana_residency_notes [2014-06-04 09:57] – [Notes from 20140604] 118.210.62.249
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   * [[http://www.coloursofistria.com/en/nature-and-camping/flora-and-fauna/giants-of-motovun-forest|the Motovun forest]]   * [[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]]   * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motovun|Motovun town]]
 +  * [[http://www.parenzana.net/en/home_page|Parenzana trail]]
  
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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.
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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 [[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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-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/ 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.+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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-   * Nik suggested that I look into the possibility of foam presenting a future forecast workshop in Adelaide.  +   * 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") 
-   * 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. +   * 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====
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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.
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 +Ref. Boskovic-Stulli, Maja (1959). Istarske Narodne Price. Institut za Narodnu Umjetnost, Zagreb
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 +**Sounds from Matt**
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 +<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>
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 +<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>
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 +**Miranda's Weather**
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 ==== residency report ==== ==== residency report ====
   * see [[research report parenzana]]   * see [[research report parenzana]]
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 +==== Notes from 20140603 ====
 +==== Adhocracy Residency Preparation ====
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 +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.
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 +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.
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 +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? 
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 +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. 
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 +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. 
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 +==== Notes from 20140604 ====
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 +Subsequently we are continuing to collect Weather Lore proverbs both via the internet and in discussion with Fishers and Farmers.
 +  * Additions to [[various_aphorisms]]
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 +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
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 +Studies on Foresight and Future Forecasting has centred around the work of Stuart Candy http://futuryst.blogspot.com.au/ as well as a dedicated following of the Future Fabulators research and activities http://lib.fo.am/future_fabulators/about
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 +Over the last five months, Sarah has spoken to a variety of experts who live in Adelaide; 
 +  * Modern Psychic Rebecca Dettman http://rebeccadettman.com/
 +  * Futurist Kristin Alford http://bridge8.wordpress.com/category/people/
 +  * Organic Farmer Nick Kentish http://nickentish.com.au/
 +  * Futurist and Trend Forecaster Kristina Dryza http://www.kristinadryza.com/
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 +Summaries of these chats will be documented during the Adhocracy residency.
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 +Today we are preparing to bump in our scenario world to the Waterside Workers Hall in Port Adelaide tomorrow. Matt is preparing the herbs and vegetables growing in our glass house, fermenting ginger beer and kombucha, pickling tomato relish and packing up quince paste and pickled tuna. Sarah is packing up things to kit out the domestic interior incuding Miranda's paints and Florence's toys. Whilst Miranda has made an arguement to take the broody hen with her seven new chicks with us. 
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 +At this point in time we have sketched out activities for us to do with the children and with visitors over the four days. We realise that this residency will be foccussed on being in the scenario and doing things, as having the children with us means any computer based research or long adult discussions would be very difficult. This is our opportunity to see how things play out in practice.
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