IMBEDDED INFORMATION - what to present

Go along using the approach presented at the workshop and using it as a driver for developing your ‘plots’/projects. Be clear on what is your field of interest, and name it with specific words. Name the players, and their relationships, show their battlefields.
As a guideline, first we want you to introduce in each of your briefs one quote from each of the studios we had in Jæren (IRIS - Hall Toll - Erga farm - Obrestad Fyr - KinoKino). In what ways these statements have informed your project?

Second, present your players: name them being as specific as possible, and write some lines stating who they are and what they do.

Then, draw 2/3 diagrams representing your "informers"/"players" and their mutual relationship: on an abstract level (relations in action) and on the map (relations in space). For inspiration, have a look at the website visualcomplexity.com: you should try not to use "static"representations, like hyerarchies, arboresent structures.. - but try to see dyanmics interactions, where each "player" has multiple and multidirectional relationships to the others. Make smart use of maps as well, locating relationships between the players, but feel free to choose your own scale, and abstract from the map the physical elements that interest you (eg. one location can be as big as the all north sea, or can be an abstract condition found in many places in Jæeren - like the littoral zone - or if it is a infrastructural element, like the trainline, it can be taken out from its real course, and become an abstract line connecting and structuring things..).

The illustrations produced in this phase should be an answer to the question what informs your project? in order to soon dive into the following and more tricky question what is your project?

As a conclusion, new visions are already allowed : what new ideas, new spaces, new programs can you imagine? But be aware that they have to be consequent with your research and brief, that is to say: brilliant ideas can't stand for themselves.
Good luck!
Alice

IMBEDDED INFORMATION - assignment #2

(thank you to Mads, Trude and Kemppe for background graphics)

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for assignment #2:

find a voice for you to follow in Jaeren (one person, one theme)

construct your own vocabulary on the theme *

build a matrix of imbedded information that can inform your project and thinking ^

how?

gather all the informations you find, name them * and edit them progressively ^: in order to reach the same depth of information, and comparable results

follow connections as they unfold and add layers of information of top of each other, editing thoughts as they come on your way (maps/pictures/textes)

formulate questions to be asked on site: to the people of Jaeren, to its landscape. create your own treasure map to explore next week.

prepare to reorganize your matrix and establish relations between its parts: the goal is to arrive at the workshop with Ellen equipped with all the material to set up you own project brief.

good luck!

assignment #1

find 3 possible themes that you want to track and investigate on

argue what are your intentions

activate the library with the energy of curiosity: inform you thought and enrich you arguments by searching different libraries on your themes

then your investigations have to be located in one/two physical places..

our intentions is to create a dialogue between your fields and findings

Ellen Braae guided us to Robert Smithson, let you be guided by him..and discover, reconstruct and use the stones of Jaeren as a metaphor. this means that your expectations of a new potetial will be added to the stones of Jaeren - mentally speaking.

"The earth's surface and the figments of the mind have a way of disintegrating into discrete regions of art. Various agents, both fictional and real, somehow trade places with each other - one cannot avoid muddy thinking when it comes to earth projects, or what I will call "abstract geology". One's mind and the earth are in a constant state of erosion, mental rivers wear away abstract banks, brain weaves undermine cliffs of though, ideas decompose into stones of unknowing, and conceptual crystallizations break apart into deposits of gritty reason. Vast moving faculties occur in this geological miasma, and they move in the most physical way. (...)" ROBERT SMITHSON / A SEDIMENTATION OF THE MIND - EARTH PROJECTS (1968)

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