Human ecologies

Adam Weymouth is joining the project, covering the human ecology aspect "field" sociology.

He's explainign even more in the freshly opened LAB 9. OPEN_POLITICS

Adam proposes to :

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- Documenting the journey - exploring how communtiy builds along the journey, and how people's awareness of each other and of their environment alters. This could be used to emphasise the importance of open sailing in not just sustainable living through good applications of science and resources, but by building a strong community, which is, i believe, at the base of holistic practice.

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- I wrote my Masters dissertation on looking at the links between protest walks and pilgrimage. Looking at the importance of the journey for people, at nomadic lifestyles, and of the spiritual importance of undertaking journeys. This project seems like a great way to extend my research.

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- Developing some sort of outreach programme for the communities that we're passing through - not just in the cities but the villages also. Presumably you'll be passing a huge array of diverse communites - have you thought about how to talk to people about what you're up to/ get them involved and interested? I did an 80 mile walk across London last summer as part of the Climate Caravan - I found it was the best thing I've done to engage with people about issues we wanted to discuss, because we are coming to them, and getting involved in their communites. This seems to be the same, on an even bigger and more visual scale.

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- Exploring ways for us to work as a community on board - modalities of socialising.

New exhibition design

Staying as simple as possible, from left to right : the website, below a webcam, on the tablet a mic, a trackball mouse, the threat map, the concept model we made month ago, a beautiful picture of the construction site (photoshoot tomorow thursday 16h00 at Area10, come! The great photographer Hitomi Yoda's is shooting us!), the model.

RCA SHOW proposal ... livelink !

This is a proposal for the RCA SHOW, 25 of June, by the way you should all come !!!!!

The idea is that if we dont manage to have the real thing in the Royal Albert Hall opposite the RCA SHOW entrance, we might as well already have the Open_Sailing_01 in the water already, in a harbour, and we'd have a webcam in there, and people at the show could see, it's already on the water !!!! Imagine one of us is there all the time and can talk to visitors in the show, that'd be exciting! Maybe the person on board would answer the questions of the SHOW visitors, dicuss, maybe we could also record some of the discussion... Also it would reduce costs and risks a lot, and in the time we have left, it is difficult to obtain exhibition authorization in public space + insurances etc ... We are trying anyway !

Anyway, it is pretty simple looking, I wanted it something more participative - chairs, sketchbook, more interactive stuff - but they would allow only slickness ... Can do ! So let's try to communicate our ideas, slickly and richly. I was thinking, since we have so much documentation, and we are looking for funds, maybe we could sell pretty silk-screened paper bags full of our documentations, with the theory of Open_Architecture, our researches, drawings, notes, extracts of the blog, ocean food recepes, a DVD, colour prints, maybe some of our sponsors docs, a fish and some chips, etc ... What do you guys think?

New World Builders

That's happening near regents Park.
If you need them, just call.
Now I can answer these questions :
Where is the New World? Here.
Can I make a call, just to make sure it still will be there when I arrive? Yes.
Who will I be hanging out with, in this New World? These chaps.
And what will we spend our days doing? This.

Now you know all about the New World, do you really really want to go there?

(PS : it is not my van, heheheh)

Ok, I know, you want to sail, nevermind...