brainstorm about the city and possibilities - notes from this mornings chat
what is the scope? What are our objectives?
We would like to work with social issues of Gouda as well i.e. cultural diversity as well as issues of knowledge transfer.
We could imagine a fairly broad set of projects - each with their own approach to Gouda - probably directed by each of us individually – or we're all explicitly contributing to a single project.
We are interested in the relationship of any project to the specifics of Gouda and it’s institutions.
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Issue:
There appears to be a lack of meeting points in Gouda. More life in the city would relate to more meeting points in the city.
Idea:
Taking over an empty house and put on event nights that have live acts art and cheep food, an eclectic mix of things for all types day and night. Different rooms for different possibilities. It could also be a series of physical spaces spread over the city as access points to art/food. it would be nice if we could get a movement of volunteers going to keep it running themselves. a space where all things can happen.
At these venues we could host:
A cabaret with games in it, tapping into the singers, the music school etc. A gamers cafe could be the starting point of a performance.
A time machine, going back and forth between past and present Gouda, searching for clues in the archive/museum/library.
Possibilities for improvisations and impromptu performances.
art installation performance screenings tango craft groups etc.
provide a space where people can bring things and swap things, modify things, fix things, hack things.
a white book where everybody writes a history about Gouda, but just not the true one. or paints a picture of how he/she sees Gouda
we do our things to 'tie it together. but we should include a lot of freedom for the people to explore their own ideas through our project
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This idea could be prototypes by finding a temporary space for a trial project.
we could get the physical situations going ourselves, games will make kids join us.
another way to test these ideas would be through short festivals - temporary situations, take over some spaces for a week, have groups emmerge and take them with us as we move on
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other ideas that came up include:
a virtual meeting space which all kinds of people can join, make rooms in, transform them into a physical space in Gouda (like squatted houses) apply for a small budget (for example to rent a beamer to organize a movie night). A way to easily organize new initiatives and get some support from the local 'government'.
a "kit" that consists of a strong data connection backbone, a soup kitchen setup, a series of spaces that host community groups. create temporary spaces and in such a space: we run workshops, do gaming, social group stuff.
how do we connect this to the institutions? Maybe the workshops are also methods for collecting history for the archive, re framing artefacts for the museum and storytelling for the library???
we would have a starting point for a possible performance. by having a favourite location of the young kids we could make sure they would be also getting involved with the performance
we could have a van moving through different locations in the city.it has wlan access. people can contribute to the image of gouda by taking pictures, taping themselves, painting... and we would have a real patchwork after some days
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we must find a face in between the institutions, and make it clear somehow this in between space.
before we come down on a site - it would probably be a decent thing to understand a bit more about what the location really reflects for people in Gouda and what kinds of reactions it might spark.
we need to check out what is already here and how we may provide a portal to these groups/places for the people who would not find them on their own.
see where the underground of gouda was or if there is about 10 romanians living in a cladestine location which seeing how many empty houses there are its probably true.
there is a public bath!
[summerised by kristina]
We would like to work with social issues of Gouda as well i.e. cultural diversity as well as issues of knowledge transfer.
We could imagine a fairly broad set of projects - each with their own approach to Gouda - probably directed by each of us individually – or we're all explicitly contributing to a single project.
We are interested in the relationship of any project to the specifics of Gouda and it’s institutions.
---
Issue:
There appears to be a lack of meeting points in Gouda. More life in the city would relate to more meeting points in the city.
Idea:
Taking over an empty house and put on event nights that have live acts art and cheep food, an eclectic mix of things for all types day and night. Different rooms for different possibilities. It could also be a series of physical spaces spread over the city as access points to art/food. it would be nice if we could get a movement of volunteers going to keep it running themselves. a space where all things can happen.
At these venues we could host:
A cabaret with games in it, tapping into the singers, the music school etc. A gamers cafe could be the starting point of a performance.
A time machine, going back and forth between past and present Gouda, searching for clues in the archive/museum/library.
Possibilities for improvisations and impromptu performances.
art installation performance screenings tango craft groups etc.
provide a space where people can bring things and swap things, modify things, fix things, hack things.
a white book where everybody writes a history about Gouda, but just not the true one. or paints a picture of how he/she sees Gouda
we do our things to 'tie it together. but we should include a lot of freedom for the people to explore their own ideas through our project
---
This idea could be prototypes by finding a temporary space for a trial project.
we could get the physical situations going ourselves, games will make kids join us.
another way to test these ideas would be through short festivals - temporary situations, take over some spaces for a week, have groups emmerge and take them with us as we move on
---
other ideas that came up include:
a virtual meeting space which all kinds of people can join, make rooms in, transform them into a physical space in Gouda (like squatted houses) apply for a small budget (for example to rent a beamer to organize a movie night). A way to easily organize new initiatives and get some support from the local 'government'.
a "kit" that consists of a strong data connection backbone, a soup kitchen setup, a series of spaces that host community groups. create temporary spaces and in such a space: we run workshops, do gaming, social group stuff.
how do we connect this to the institutions? Maybe the workshops are also methods for collecting history for the archive, re framing artefacts for the museum and storytelling for the library???
we would have a starting point for a possible performance. by having a favourite location of the young kids we could make sure they would be also getting involved with the performance
we could have a van moving through different locations in the city.it has wlan access. people can contribute to the image of gouda by taking pictures, taping themselves, painting... and we would have a real patchwork after some days
---
we must find a face in between the institutions, and make it clear somehow this in between space.
before we come down on a site - it would probably be a decent thing to understand a bit more about what the location really reflects for people in Gouda and what kinds of reactions it might spark.
we need to check out what is already here and how we may provide a portal to these groups/places for the people who would not find them on their own.
see where the underground of gouda was or if there is about 10 romanians living in a cladestine location which seeing how many empty houses there are its probably true.
there is a public bath!
[summerised by kristina]
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