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 ==== Methods ====
+This residency was situated in a house amongst vineyards in an old part of Istria. Florence and I were among friends and we are all highly motivated individuals. Therefore we began an informal discussion that developed over a week, with ideas becoming more focused over time. Simultaneously we continued to expand our scope of research as we shared our knowledge and experience and chased down leads. Whilst not consulting literature or media we firstly located our own knowledge and feelings about climate change and the stories that have and could emerge to make meaning of this. From this we narrowed the area of interest from clasical mythology to weather lore.
-  * //concise description of the way the research will be (has been) developed from establishing the problem definition to the final results//
+In line with my research practice, this led to the construction of creative tasks which then informed the formation of new questions and follow up tasks.
-The site for this residency was in a house amongst vineyards in an old part of Istria. Florence and I were among friends and we are all highly motivated individuals. Therefore we began an informal discussion that developed over a week which became more focused over time and simulateously continued to expand our scope of reasearch as we shared our knowledge and experience and chased down leads.
-Whilst in Croatia, the foam residency was structured to include my whole family so my husband Matt contributed a sound score and our daughter Miranda sent drawings and stories in response to the creative content generated. Foam founders and collaborators Nik Gaffney and Maja Kumonovic, not only contributed creative ideas but picked up the ‘hard to do with a baby in your arms’ tasks like note taking and documenting.
+Tasks included:
+  *Nik focusing on highlighting the 'supernatural' in nature through photography
+  *Staging photographs around the gardens with the characters of The storyteller, The child, The mother(s)
+  *Researching weather lore
+  *Noting proverbs about weather
+  *Putting the weather lore proverbs with the pictures as captions
+  *Aiming to create contemporary proverbs about the weather
+  *Recording a storytelling soundscape
+  *Creating storyboard movies to narrate stories based around weather lore
+This residency was structured to include my whole family so my husband Matt contributed a sound score and our daughter Miranda sent drawings and stories in response to the creative content generated. Foam founders and collaborators Nik Gaffney and Maja Kumonovic, not only contributed creative ideas and creative content but also picked up the ‘hard to do with a baby in your arms’ tasks like note taking and documenting.
-  * //justification of the methodology //
+Working around the sleep, feed, play schedule of a baby meant that the methodology needed to be flexible and not fixed in time. Whilst this meant that ideas and tasks were sometimes left unfinished until a later time, everything remained in focus and most tasks were completed.The method of informal discussion allowed for the consideration of Florence but it is also a way of eliciting a personal and felt response to the range of ideas. By listening and questioning others and ourselves we managed to narrow the field of interest and begin to play with creative output.
 ==== Solution/Results ====