tuesday 10/11

What is the theme of our project/exhibition? How does it relate to power?

What is the set intention?

What is the vision? What is the mision?

What are we creating?

How are we creating and displaying it?

Why are we choosing to create and display it that way?

When will it be created?

What role would I like to take in this project? (See Miro board for the suggested roles)

Is there anything in particular I would like to incorporate to our project, whether it be theoretical or practical?

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Pierre: wants to divide the project in 3 sections, one written one visual and one audiovisual, and that we divide the group in those sections,

Indra: feels comfortable with the role of content creation

Lena and Camila have similar ideas of what the idea looks like and how they would like to proceed

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Betty and the feedback from the meeting:

will present tomorrow instead

general feedback - be more specific with the cause and intention, a lot of groups are working with gender, and not so many are actually working with a glimpse to the future like we thought

the majority of what people are focusing on is what its like to be powerless, keeping a positive tone seems to be rare among the groups

we’re all kind of in the same stage

no one has done something practical just yet, everyone is looking into tools atm

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Pierre: what is a statue and what does it do to public spaces? begin with a question and then create

Camila: the news segment can be the announcement of all statues finally being swapped in favor of symbols of power and representation decided by the popular vote

Pierre: presenting the idea of the garden of hope, where we show what the future can look like

Betty: easier to choose heroes that have been overlooked

Pierre: maybe someone who works in healthcare

Indra: or barnmorska

Lena: example of when they cropped out the Black activist in the photo with Greta

Betty: agrees that it’s a good example of the power of narrative

Pierre: wants to work with statues and public spaces. wants to start with the question. speaking from the i, wants to nail this down now. wants to make a decision.

Camila: kinda fed up with the way we’re going in circles, feels like we’re getting hung up on the details instead of laying the ground.

Betty: thinks our session with pebbles will help us lay things down

Pierre: feels in sync with pebbles ideas

Everyone: feels we’re making progress

Pierre: feels like we’ve come a long way today

Camila: feels like there’s power in sound as well, that its something we should work it

Question: what is the most concrete idea that we’re leaning into that you feel the most for?

Betty: feels that we’re leaning towards statues through a news segment

Camila: maybe using like subtitles, like a movie? to make it more artsy

Robin: still stuck on the first draft that he wrote, like creating a room that you step into with a tv - where several things being shown as though seen from the future but the future in present tense. believes in the format due to the content that can be displayed. wants to let the television be the outgoing point of the rest of the content.

Pierre: what would you like to show?

Robin: start out with news, maybe the weather as to set the context

Pierre: what question do we answer with this idea? what is the context?

Robin: not sure, wants to show minorities in positions of power. a woman of color as PM. showcasing a future that we hope for. what can we challenge?

Pierre: thinks we could use the room and the television to ask the question of statues and public spaces, and how does it affect people to not be represented in statues? why are statues being torn down.

Robin: it depends on what kinda work we want to do with the statue

Pierre: one part could be go into the room and seeing the news of statues being torn down and the question being what do statues do to public spaces, next step is the garden of hope with the virtual statues that we hope would be made, third is the article. that way we link everything together.

Betty: doesn’t think we have time to produce all of those things

Pierre: if we divide the group into 3 sections then its possible. then we have a concept and a clear question

Camila: (then we have a red thread)

Betty: read in miro that we are working with representation and creating an empowering narrative, isn’t that sort of what the statues are?

Camila: thinks that we went different ways with the narrative vs public spaces

Robin: doesn’t think a lot about the subject of statues

Camila: thinks that its obvious that statues are symbols of power and symbols of white supremacy, and they shape a sense of representation and they affirm certain , also thinks that not thinking ir caring about statues also says something about the subject

Pierre: if we want to show structures of racism then we can point at statues as symbols of power, structures of race and gender

Lena: gives amsterdam as an example of “bad” statues

Betty: is worried about the time pressure

Camila: explains the 3 sections

Robin: likes the idea

Betty: gives examples of good people to showcase as statues

Camila: (has an idea of 2d statues being shown, that way we can use a picture and “make it” 3d but flat)