Dajra

2006-09-27T10:36:00.000-07:00

Sorry that I haven't written in the blogg the last days, but mine group had a lot to do. We were in Christiania at Monday and it was really interesting and we learned also a lot from our guide. My thought about Christiania is that it's a cute "country" with those little houses, but at the same time I felt unpleasant because there was dogs everywhere running around and I have fobi about dogs, I'm really scared so it was little hard to relax. And also I don't think that I could live there because I don't feel secure, of the people who takes drugs and drinks all the time. But the whole town looks like a fantasy, when you are in there it is like you're away from reality.
So let's move on to our project, after being in Christiania we descided to do a different kind od "country" that we call "NON-GENDER SOCIETY", we chose this theme because today everything is based on what and who you are, boy or a girl. And then we thought what if there wasn't any gender? Should our society be hole different or? We had a big discussion about it and we wanted more people to think about it. So we have prepared a game about "non-gender" this these days until Friday so everybody who wants can join because it's going to be real fun =).

2006-09-24T11:57:00.000-07:00

During two weeks we are supposed to do a project about everything that we want to do but it has to have a cause of course and mine group elected the category "how to build our own country" yea it sounds fun hehe, but we thought that it could be a good project but it was harder then we thought. After many thoughts we decided to continue with that idea, SO tomorrow we are going to Kristiania in Copenhagen, oh it's going to be really fun I think. But I heard that they had closed or maybe it's only civilian policeman who is there because of the drugs. We hope that we will get some answer about their "country" so that we know how to contine with our country heeh. So to be continued...

2006-09-18T13:05:00.000-07:00

Oh Friday last week was fun when we had the last day with the 3rd workshop, that day we did everybodies choregraphies. It was really fun because we did different things in the town. But I think that our group had the best choreography, it was simple but fun hehe. You just go with your smile so that you see your teeth and say hay to everybody who goes by hehe. Later when we saw the film that Kami had recorded you can see a guy who is pointing the finger to all of us, 100 students heheh.

Today(Monday) we stared with this project which we are have to do during 2 weeks. At the first time we could choose our group self, which was good. So today we talked with out process teacher Lisa and she gave us 2 task to do until tomorrow, which isn't so hard one is to tell something which irritates me and the other one was to tell what I like.
My group haven't descide what our project will be about but I hope that we would know it tomorrow. I hope it will be something interesting because we have to work with it during 2 weeks. =)

2006-09-14T10:51:00.000-07:00

This third workshop is definitive the funniest one. We have to make som kind of choreography like for a dance or something similar. And today we had a practice it was to walk so slowly as we could like an ant hehe, So imagine that 100 students walked from "Stortorget" to "Gustav torg" with really slowly footsteps, it took 40 minutes. It was really fun to se peoples reactions who past us. They thought we were crazy or that we had some kind of demonstration.

Now tomorrow every group is going to be prepared with their own choreography that we all are going to show. It is going to be fun with these experiment hehe. And just to see 100 students how are doing the same choreography in the town.

Very exciting.

2006-09-12T11:22:00.000-07:00

We had really fun with our "park poem" today, people were happily suprised and it was a good reaction. It was also good that people with different ages wrote a word, all from 12-80 years. That's why we also got both simple and more difficult words. Which was good because you can see in the poem that all kinds of people contributed with words.

The young ones most wanted to write a word because of the candy they get , but the older ones wrote a word without asking anyone which was a positive reaction.

Our group was satisfied with our "park poem" because it went well, better than we thought.
At the end we did get a more "dadaistisk dikt" which is a poem that you can express yourself with all kinds of words.

It will be interesting to hear the other groups tomorrow and about their projects and ideas.

2006-09-11T06:52:00.000-07:00

Okey let me see, I had forgotten to write on friday. We have this new workshop that calls "new beginings" and it's an interesting part of the course.
These three guys talked about a different kind of experiment and one of them calls " talk-walk-eat-talk some more" , which is some kind of experimental hybrid of critical cartographical work.
And that was what we did. They divide us in groups with 10 people in each group. Then we walked in a specific area, which was in "västra hamnen" and discussed about different buildings ,about their history, future and what we could change. If was really fun because we were lucky with the weather, so it was nice to just walk talk and then eat all together.
My group find quit a lot buildings to discuss about , and talked how we could change those buildings.
The other part was to choose just one specific place and then change it in some kind of way.
We had lots of ideas, but finally we decided to make poetry in a park "slottsparken". People who goes by can just write down a word on a paper and then at the end when we have many words on a line between trees we would get a poem of those words. I hope!!
It would be really fun thing because everybody is going to contribute with theese words which are going to be a poem at the end. So it will be funny to see what the poem is going to be about.
So tomorrow we are going to be at the park from 10-16 pm so everybody who wants to enjoy us, is welcome =) See ya

2006-09-06T02:06:00.000-07:00

I tried so hard to get an idea and finally I did get one. It is a very simple thing I call "sentence marker" but it wasn't so simple to build it. I want it to be of materiel metal but I couldn't really make one so I bought a reflex hehe, and tried to make something similar. But it didn't work. So I went to a store again and bought really thick dark blue paper , so that it would be more similar a metal color. That didn't work either. Finally I find a driving practice sign "övningskörnings skylt" and tried to do something of that and funny enough, after hard work with my ruler, scissors, pen and some other things, I did get my model that looks like how I'vd planed my invetion to be.

Well I had worked with my invention all day and tried to do my best, but we will se the reaction today at 14 pm.

2006-09-04T12:54:00.000-07:00

Today we got the first assigment to do, invent a low tech product that know one knows of but that will help me in my future profession. So I thought how hard could it be ? but OMG I was wrong. I sat all day thinking what simple thing do we need that doesn't exist yet. Hmm...
Oke it's one thing to explain the invent but a hole other thing to really make a model of the invention. I'm reallly not a person with lot's of fantasy but I have to try.

This course are going to be very interesting.

2006-09-01T01:33:00.000-07:00

Hello everybody!

So today we had introducion on this new course art, culture and design 2

I hope it will be fun =)

See ya