GOING INTO THE NEW YEAR - THE TACARIGUA SCULPTURAL PLAYSPACE PROJECT AND OTHER THINGS

THE LINK TO DOWN LOAD THE PDF.

http://artzpub.com/sites/default/files/pdf/FINAL-V-7-Tacarigua_Playground_Catalog_Spreads_V7.pdf

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GOING INTO THE

NEW YEAR.
The Tacarigua Sculptural Playspace Project and other Things.

As I go into the new year I’m compelled to look back at accomplishments, I have had the ability to listen at some interesting conversations, meet interesting people, travel to spectacular spaces. What comes of it all. I will like to comment on two meeting that I went too recently that should lock it all in.

DR. HOLLIS
EMAIL - DiplomaticAcademy@sta.uwi.edu
tel - 1(868) 662-2002 ext83237

 

·         Dr. Simon Hollis – made a presentation at the International Relations Department, University of the West Indies. His thesis examines the role of regional organizations and their Disaster Risk Management capacities. Dr. Hollis is a visiting research fellow at the institute of International Relations and a postdoctoral researcher in the Institute for Security, Strategy and Leadership at the Swedish National Defence College.

What is interesting about Dr. Simon Hollis, is his interest in aesthetics, and how aesthetics can build resilience in coping with risk management. As I listened to these men speak at the table, Dr. Knight, was also present at the table. There was mentioned of Art, Museums, Heritage, Culture in a conversation of developing strong capabilities for survival.

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·         The other meeting was on Monday where I attended an ACTT meeting, held at National Carnival Commission, Grand Stand. Here was spelled out some of the gains that were accomplished in the budget, which in all estimates are good for the cultural sector, if we’re able to get them to roll out. These are,

1.   The creation of a National Arts Council

2.   The Creation of a Genius Grant ala MacArthur Foundation Grants

3.   The Commissioning of 44 (24 in the first year 20 in the 2^nd) Memoirs and Histories of aspects and personages from local culture eg the History of Dance, the History of Ramleela, etc as well as biographies of Sparrow, Kitch, Sundar etc.

4.   The regularization of the Land Tenure of all Panyards in the country.

 

·         The Presentation of the Tacarigua Sculptural Playspace Project – here we were able to present a radical new way of looking at how art and design can be presented in our communities. As one person told me, the project as in the Western art scenario, looks to deconstruct this project looks at reconstruction and the building of an attitude in the development of people.

These three meeting all seem to be looking at the whole-ism of our particular position and attempting to create a conversation around how development will happen

The creation of a National Arts Council, if rolled out properly will see the development of  all sector groups, proper transparency in funding, upgrading in training for sector groups, groups will be in a central location, which will allow for better communication (hoping). An Arts Council isn’t the hell bent solution, but it is a step where we can get an idea of conversation in the whole-ism of development and the creation of a better hell to live in.

THE VIKINGS - FROM MARACAS, ST. JOSEPHS

 

THE NEW YEAR WISH.

Man! Woman! Child!, culture is a buss, it gone to the dumps, it has fallen and the guardian who holding the swords must take acknowledgement that I have, we have, allowed it all to go to hell, due to our selfish, myopic, arrogant, low-self-esteem, ignorant, brown-nosing, attention grabbing, individualist pursuits, looking to get our individual concepts of art above all else, rather than the progressive development of art and design and in extension of our cultural development. I will like to see more synergy between people and groups. We need to foster hard to build capacity with people, the state, corporate sector, bring them to the understanding that local content will not kill advertising.

The wishes –

1.   I will like to see first the development of the Tacarigua Sculptural Playspace Project – which we hope will see data developed that we can start understanding how art and design and the memory concept can take shape in the imagination of our people.

2.   I will like to see the Art Society take a more political position considering their position as a vanguard position. The Art Society needs to take serious vocal position in art and the role it can play, the new roles, where it comes to social art and design. They also need to build synergy

3.   As the Department of Creative and  Festival Arts, UWI, acquire their new building. I hope there is a serious new conceptualization of the whole-ism of art and design, preparing our future artists for that new world, workshops, building artists who under synergy development, collaboration and the importance of a social consciousness.

4.   The Ministry of Culture to find the heart of culture and speak to it in the language that is needed for them to really represent and support the people who can re-position and construct new dynamism.

5.   The University of the West Indies, I will like to see them in the space with their new portal, where community can tap into and get a look at the research that is going on, at this point it is hard to get to read and download, reserch  

6.   The Trinidad and Tobago Institute of Architects – First they need to include artist, designers who are working in the social space to be part of their membership. Also they need to be more vocal about the landscape that is being shaped before us. There is a need for more conversation about design and the development of an architectural space either at UWI, which we believe can happen and maybe happening.

7.   The Planners – things are happening and the Planning Association, what up? Do stand up and be counted.

8.   Civil Society, need to build relationship with artists and design, in the development of a newer activist re-positioning. The Fire Circle is one situation that may take that into consideration let see what kind of data is thrown out.

9.   Finally I will like to see the Aripo Project a steady course – which the conceptualization of re-designing of the Aripo Village around Value Added, which will see art and design at the forefront of the development discourse.

10.               I will like to see Alice Yard, Studio 66, the galleries in a kind of ordering a talk about representation, art, design, festival etc

11.               I will like to see an artist’s dinner one of these days.

 

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

 

THE TACARIGUA SCULPTURAL PLAYSPACE PROJECT - GOING TO THE NEXT LEVEL-POST PRESENTATION

THE LINK TO THE PDF
http://artzpub.com/sites/default/files/pdf/FINAL-V-7-Tacarigua_Playground_Catalog_Spreads_V7.pdf

THE TACARIGUA SCULPTURAL

 

PLAYSPACE PROJECT

FIRST ENCOUNTERS OF THE 4^TH KIND,

NEXT LEVEL RE-POSITION.
9 December 2014

I presented an idea with the help of a lot of friends; so we presented an idea, we have seen an emotive response and gotten nice taps on our backs. We have sat in a few meeting to solidify some of the enthusiasm that was show on FRIDAY 17 OCTOBER, I got a call and met with them, sent in a proposal and we wait for the response of how it will all flow.

We must now develop our internal working infrastructure in the organization to support external income, pledging. Once this happens there will be a certain amount of responsibility on us to present what we said we can. Here, in the second phase of a project is where emotions getting to paper will run thin, voices will be high and low as you re-design, scratch, morph, evolve something into something again.

 

 

 

 

MARKETING STRATEGY 

There needs to be the Development of a marketing strategy that will see us developing other interest, both in the community and out of the community, there must also the need to open the international dialog, build synergies, where we can get a host of people voices into the conversation of social design. What this will look like? I'm not sure, it has already happened in the people who have partnered with the project and the other people, who will join in the conversation. I will like to see in the end a conversation with organizations, like the Institute of Architects of Trinidad and Tobago, the Planners, Civil Society groups. This afternoon, there will be a civil society meeting at UWI, Fire Circle, I'm guessing in this meeting there will be an open conversation which will bring up the topic of how women are treated in a society, which is hostile. How can we address this is through social design.

 

FLEXIBILTY OF THE PROJECT

As the year bends off into the tailing winds of the

Northern sky, opening the door for the roar of North-East blazing sun, I’m in the studio, the project has settled and there are whispers around, there are doubts, as one friend mentioned to me by some people about the project, I sit at times and wonder what is this doubt that people will have...

Over the time, my reservations has been supplicated by the clear understanding of project management, the project coordination will be utilizing a system called "PARTNERING" and the professional manner my colleagues express how this particular proto type project should unfold. Even at what capacity does a young group should embrace, we should understand limits, Sean understands this and has designed to suit how this particular project should evolve. So the project has been design with these characteristics in mind. We’re also very aware of the demands of people who invest in projects, expecting certain responses from the project. The amazing flexibility of the project where we can see something happening on the ground in 12 months :

ü  Landscaping

ü  Natural Berm

ü  Play Fence

ü  Lighting

ü  Design Seating

It is interesting how we develop groups in this new modernism, new groups must look at how they operate, develop new methods which understands new forms of leadership, new ways of keeping records, new ways of meeting; new ways of speaking in meetings. Dada, has this new opportunity to create new leadership models. I'm thinking off the top of my head and thinking that Alice Yard, is directed in that informal position, Studio66. 

 

 

 

 

PEOPLE

So as I sit in the studio and ponder the people that I have collaborated in developing not only this project, but other projects, my painting, the Aripo Project, just by listening, coming to the meeting, showing up means something, when ideas are concerned. This particular project has the ability to bring people to the table even if it is just curiosity, how it will pan out will be noted in the records. 

 

 

 

COLLABORATION

I'm glad when I call someone and they say, hey lets meet, we meet with a cup in hand and go over ideas, plans they share, things get shaped, the ideas as it was is now something else, a little more powerful, I might be perplexed that my concepts will have to be challenged, I have grown in the knowledge of collaborations protocols and what that truly means. Sharing concepts means, shedding the ego, put it away. I have learned, I have learned while kicking and fighting.

I have also learned to insist that this is my idea, there is a time when there must be control of that. Collaboration, like "Partnering", like Social Design, will involve a certain amount of loss of the individual or a higher understanding from the individual of how they will be needed to operate in the evolving science of social involvement with our individual artistic pursuit. Art for Art Sake; is a pejorative that we can't use, at this particular time, just as "Post Black" can't be used in Afro-American artistic parlance, as Ferguson, New York, the I CAN'T BREATH protest from celebrities to the burning and death of our young men by gun culture from there peers and police in Trinidad and Tobago, says that we must look at how aesthetics operate in this socially fragile state.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE DEATH OF INDIVISUALISM

When it comes to social designing the artist becomes a conductor, placing the right people in the right place, allowing them to be who they are means the best for the project, it also means that the artist must adapt to a new way of seeing work move from one status to the other. There is the political and the integrity of the project, which must be protected in the name of the project not necessarily the artist. The project is alive, carrying within it something very potent and constructive, when placed with all its properties will have a voice, speaking for its the space and the people of that space. The people should in all humanity speak for the space, the project, they should grasp something deep within them, be moved to find that empowering emotive voice, as will when we see the horror of abuse to a child, if this does not happen, there is more work to be done.

 

 

 

So hear I’m, here we’re at the cusp of  something sweet, something abnormal in the brutality of a space, that at times I fear the political and social naivety of my country to embrace the full trajectory of the Tacarigua Sculptural Playspace Project.

A friend mentioned, she is concerned about process, I’m concerned also.

So there is a pledge sheet around somewhere or you can call 1-868-722-6153 if there is some contribution you’ll like to make.

 

 

 

 

 

this is the project coordination which we will be using for the project -
"Partnering is aimed at clarifying the stakeholders' expectation; and it ensures that the stakeholders develop a WIN-WIN relationship that discourages gain by one at the expense of the other. It also facilitated communication including the free exchange or sharing of pertinent data/information; maximizes teamwork and contributes enormously to achieving a successful project."

 

 

 

 

 

SPONSORSHIP 

There is no losers here, any involvement here is what I will call immersive branding, deep into the bowels of the community, working I hope alongside a project that will be built in stead with or in contribution with the community. Social design, art as other projects which imply those same tools, have something that needs recognition. This is the psychological empowering aspect of these types projects embraces in them. As it is a tool that see craft people walking away in a frame of mind that sees the greater possibilities of their hands, their minds. But these interventions can't be one off, it needs continuum and further development. the Heritage Cities project, development of space of other spaces around design protocols, which will have maintenance, social, economic responsibilities that will be laid down. The development of garden groups that will maintain the space in hand over; the garden group needs to be trained at Centeno maybe, the development of  structural watch group, the formation of play attendants, these are all possibilities.  

 

 

 

 

 

MAN YUH JUST HAVE TO SAY THANKS! AND WE WILL BE IN TOUCH

 

Dean.

THE OFFICIAL PRESENTATION - SHAPPING SOCIAL DESIGN. THE PEFORMATIVITY OF ART-DESIGN OBJECTIFICATION

THE OFFICIAL PRESENTATION
REPORT
THE TACARIGUA SCULPTURAL PLAYGROUND PROJECT.
FORM SHAPPING IN SOCIAL DESIGN.
THE PEFORMATIVITY OF ART-DESIGN.

Friday 17 October 2014- 7-10 a.m @ the Trinidad and Tobago Hilton Hotel; we presented to the national community the project. After long deliberations and back and forth, there would have come the time when the project will be mature enough to be presented. Its in this presence that it will find form, here it will speak, here it will come into the world, not of a whisper but of an acknowledgement of a wondrous adjective.
Here in the La Boucan Room, in the early morning of light, with salt fish, breads, eggs and an assortment of Juices, we made a performance, an oratory performance of voices, models, catalogs, programmes, food. All set the stage for consumption of thought. To keep minds open to digesting possibilities, finalities, direction, economics, politics, communalism, roles.

 

Model of Sew Saw.

On this day we lay not only on the red carpet an idea, we lay our souls, integrity, ethics, we placed a philosophy away of working that has certainties all wrapped up in how it can happen. This just can't be pulled out of a cardboard box, this is an investment in time, a struggle in finding values which belong within our communities, then in extension us. As I mentioned to one corporate citizen, it is brand building. 
We were saying, here, we can!, with you, we can. I understand that they will have to retreat to their meeting rooms have a conversation and return with roles, mandates for participation. I look forward to this. As I mentioned in a letter to Gillian Marcelle

photo by Joshua Lue Chee Kong

Hi Gillian,

On that note, Friday 17 we presented the Tacarigua Sculptural Playground Project to the national community. We got in attendance a small but influential group of people. What was noted was the comment made by Dr. Tewarie, who was impressed by the development of the idea, how the concept was develop as a concept, rather than a concept for money. This is important to note. We got some interest in the project and we will have to follow up on the interest that was shown.

Here now we sit at the cusp of something interesting, something that can contribute to a structural understanding of how we invest in innovation. So far the data is,

• Develop a strong conceptual idea 
• Negotiate properly
• Collaborate well
• Walk in-between conversations- which will allow people to understand properly what is being said
• Know your terrain-socially, politically, economically  

This is just Part-1- innovation takes a lot to just find that one stage to make the other move to physical development.

Keep you posted.

      

photo by Joshua Lue Chee Kong
View of model

One view of the presentation space, the La Boucan Room, the Trinidad and Tobago, Hilton Hotel.

PRESENTATION SPACES

Ideally the presentation of the space should be in a room that can take manipulation, a little grey room will have been cool. Then you have the opportunity to manipulate the space to your intention. The La Boucan Room, is way busy. The carpet bright like sun, the shades and that little screen. Wanted a room that we could have easily created a sensation in design through easy manipulation. Maybe Hilton Hotel can invest in a Grey Presentation Room or a small white cube.

 

 

photo by Joshua Lue Chee Kong

Senator Dr the Honorable. Bhoendradatt Tewarie,

Minister in the Ministry of Planning and Sustainability

 

Dr. Tewarie, made an impressive presentation as a man of literature, a learned man who came from the bowels of UWI, politics and business. As the Minister of Planning and Sustainability. Dr. Tewarie, in my sense removed his hat temporarily and spoke as a man of letters; on hearing the virtues of the Tacarigua Sculptural Playground Project. As I'm thinking the other participants where. 

Negotiating through space an idea, that was once called the Sculptural Park, morphing into playground; why?

A lot of these things have to do with our society, with our education, our concept of art and our concept of design; and the inability of our cultural and education organization in supporting or organizing project that have strong conceptual cost factors.

 

 

   photo by Joshua Lue Chee Kong

Dada&Projects -

from left-Josimar Bholia, Prof. Rhoda Reddock, Dean Arlen, Valerie Taylor, Anna Lisa Arlen-Benjamin, Prof. Clement Imbert.

 

 

Dada&Projects has been formed to see other like minded projects will evolve into the light of day. This one project will give the NGO the working strength to grasp other projects and run with it. There is this need and there are other groups out there, as much as there are other playspaces, like the digicel playspace. What we want to bring to the open is the ideation of art-design, there have been other self made projects, built by hands and installed in our parks. Right there in the same savannah there is a home made built swing set.

What we want to add to this self making, Do It Yourself, DIY culture is the design ability component of DIY....this project says let us test our abilities in innovation. Let us find where we truly stand in the concept that we have in our mind that we're so very innovative and creative. There are several of the innovative aspects to this project.

1. Designing from memory.
2. Development through Participation in project management.

This project will bring to the light data, and so far the data as mentioned above of how we get a idea from one position to another position. In designing social positioning this ritual is important. This performativity with our community is as important as the idea itself. I have learned that I must push to the back my artist selfish orientation and struggle to be patient in the development exercise.

Bubble Swing Set.

 Social Art-Design has this process, long deep breaths, with an anxiety that comes, especially when as an artist in studio, I get the material, build, present, hell with it all.

There is another deliberation, and what happened on Friday 17 October, 2014. Was as necessary for the money but the sharing act of social design, to say there is something else, let us have a conversation, if you like what you see, let us talk about how we can see this happen. So far the response was enthusiastic. Let see where we can go from there. Energy changes suddenly. 

There was a wonderful mix between Valerie Taylor and Prof. Clement Imbert. Here were two different styles coming to make things light and serious. I will have liked to see Valerie walking not tied to the podium, getting to move around

 photo Joshua Lue Chee Kong

Valerie Taylor

As you see the screen is a still to small there should be a screen that makes presentations larger than life, monumental, awe inspiring. Behind the screen the curtain, the paintings, all the noise that exist in that challenge consumption of ideas.  

 

 

 

 photo by Joshua Lue Chee Kong

Prof. Clement Imbert

 

 

The little Grey Box or White Cube, a space where I can engulf a view in a participatory process that engulfs their body, a space where for a moment I can truly thief your head. Three Canal have the Black Box, maybe we can get a presentation space that will advance presentation to a level of serious fantastic. But this will be for the other presentation.

 

The story of an Art-design project continues.

 

Dean

  

 

 

 

 

 

 



INCLUSION VERSUS EXCLUSION- ART AND DESIGN IN DEVELOPING A COMMUNICATIVE TEXT-The Tacarigua Sculptural Playground Project. A case study in design development

BABA HOUSE - EASTERN MAIN ROAD, TACARIGUA. WALKING THROUGH MY COMMUNITY BROUGHT ME INTO CONTACT WITH MY PEOPLE. I WAS ABLE TO SEE THE SPACE INTIMATELY. TACARIGUA IS A HOMELY VILLAGE IN THE FLUX OF EVOLUTION.

INCLUSION VERSUS EXCLUSION.
ART AND DESIGN IN DEVELOPING A COMMUNICATIVE TEXT.
The Tacarigua Sculptural Playground Project. A case study in design development.  
Wednesday 1 October 2014



BOY RUNNING THROUGH OBSTACLE COURSE.

 

Some days or week or so ago, I stood on a stoop with a colleague speaking of process in construction; how the understanding of process; one can gauge the proper progression of a project. One understands possibilities of the craft man, the economics, what can be done, and in the presentation of the project to client the design sits with clarity, a hawk eye view, bringing understanding, patients, peace. The architect sees all, the client sees what they want, becoming myopic, distorting the critical discussion that is needed to complete the job. The project is deliberated, critic, delays, time overruns, runing up the client limited financial resources.

As an artist, who sits in the privacy of my studio, I’m usually away from this type of interpersonal reasoning. At time I will bounce thoughts off my partner, and even that isn’t in a collaborative position, more of an intellectual response of sorting out concepts. I’m lord in my domain; no one shall come onto me, dictator for life. The artist is the solitary creator in object making, we can say economics, galleries, and curators can sway the artist work. Still, this becomes  is a very private, internal influences that the artist come to terms with on an individual basis, roses versus bread.

Designers are faced with another type of concern and this is a production concern. In the process of design there are deeper relational values that must be considered. These happens in conversations in

·         PRELIMARY CONVERSATION – Sketch talks where the concept can be changed through words these conversation will happen a offices, coffee shops, informal spaces, drinks.

·         SECONDARY CONVERSATIONS – Here the concept is further critiqued, looking at something deliberate a model, drawings. Here we get things right on paper. Measurements, positioning for production.

·         THE THIRD CONVERSATION – The RHINO renderings, placing it through for DXF production.

·         THE FOURTH CONVERSATION – The reality of production, what can happen, in true sense of market haggle, a serious dialog in compromising on both sides is taken on the object.

The artist may reach the secondary conversation; designers must consider all four steps.

 

FIRE FOX - THE MIC MAN, WE WENT AROUND THE COMMUNITY ON SATURDAY ANNOUNCING TO THE COMMUNITY MEETING. I ALSO WENT AROUND ON FOOT HANDING OUT FLYERS.

 

DEVELOPING RELATIONAL VALUES FROM DESIGN.

As an artist who switches position from the solitude of the studio to the compromising position of relational politics of object making. I have developed an inclusionary way of making that allows the object to change through this process.

On the stoop, I questioned this with Sean; how did I achieve this manner of collaboration; was it my middle class upbringing, where I was taught to consider people feelings, to be polite, mannered? I was also taught to be fort-right. Designing have allowed me the opportunity to be people oriented, more social and mannered. My paintings are more self introspective, selfish, personal in my delivery to my community.

 

THE FLYER THAT I HANDED OUT-WE PRINTED 550. A SPRINKLEING OF PEOPLE TURNED OUT. HMM, MY RELIANCE ON COMMUNITY AS A SUPPORTER OF PROJECTS HAS A TWO MIND. BUT I UNDERSTAND THAT THERE MUST BE A STRUGGLE BETWEEN THE ARTIST AND THE COMMUNITY IN BRINGING INNOVATION TO COMMUNITY. YOU MAY EVEN HAVE TO PLET BIG STONES AT COMMUNITY TO GET THEM TO PAY ATTENTION.

THE TACARIGUA SCULPTURAL PLAYGROUND PROJECT IN MANNERS DEVELOPMENT.

Saturday 27 October 2014, at the Eddie Hart Grounds, aka Orange Grove Savannah; we had a community meeting one of the many interactions I have had with the community in conveying the project possibilities of transforming our communal space into a more empowering act of self determination. As usual a sprinkling of people showed up, which allowed for an intimate conversation of the direction of the project. Like how the word playground, could be changed to playspace; playground, presents in the imagination a concrete development, large over empowering, which some people in the community are protesting against.

I have always been two mind about community, the artist in me tells me, build it, install it, they will come. The designer in me, the secondary voice says, hey! Process, man, process to the final product means an inclusion as small and as invisible as the community is. I have to find a way to include them in.

I’m thinking a newspaper that will inform them of what is happening.

 

EVEN WHEN COMMUNITY RESPOND THEY COME WITH AN INTERESTING APPROACH TO IDEAS,AS THEY HAVE IDEAS. AT THIS POINT THE PROJECT MUST BE ABLE TO EVOLVE INTO SOMETHING ELSE. THIS IS ANOTHER INTERACTION THE DESIGNER MUST BE WILLING TO DEAL WITH. AS I MENTIONED TO A COLLEAUGE, AT GOOGLE-X, ALL THE DESIGNERS THERE WHERE NOT TRAINED AS DESIGNERS BUT AS BEHAVIOURIAL PYSCOLOGIST, PSYCOLOGIST ETC. THEY ALL DEAL WITH PEOPLE, AS DESIGN EVENTUALLY DEALS WITH PEOPLE.

CONCLUSION

These two voices in my head have allowed me the opportunity to be civil and rude boy at the same time, I have witnessed and understand the position of design and the position of art. This solitary behavior, have kept the artist from the world, keeping them in a perpetual underdevelopment. Designers interact with production in a very personal, interactive way, if done right can set a tract to an impressive re-positioning of art-design production, between industry and state.

In October 17, we will present the project to the national community for financial support. This was a deliberate position, just as we interacted with community it is important to interact with the wider citizens of the national community, business and state, people. Seeing, listening, and hearing how they respond to the project, to innovation. How we as artist, designers respond to them. The anthropological and psychological, economical and sociological nuances are all too important to miss out. Mr. Felix Bartholomew; Project Coordinator; have proposed a project management strategy, referred to as “Partnering”

FIRE FOX - THE MIC MAN.

 

PARTNERING

“Partnering is based upon mutual respect, integrity and trust (i.e., appreciation for the other party’s capabilities, firm adherence to common standards and values; and total confidence in the integrity, ability and character of the other party). In addition, it created a working environment in which the stakeholders work towards common goals and objectives. It also creates a smooth operation and a working relationship that allows for problems and differences to be resolved quickly, amicably and to the benefit of the parties/stakeholders.”
I can go on, but I’m sure that I have conveyed in this one paragraph the understanding of a modern social context that design can incorporate in it a social component of mannerism, rather than individual aspiration in project development.

The artist, exclusion; has allowed for the development of a strong independent voice; allowing me to develop a strong design process of inclusion in projects.

Dean Arlen. 

 

EDDIE HART SAVANNAH - AKA ORANGE GROVE SAVANNAH - AS I MEET PEOPLE AND YOU POINT TO THEM THE STATE, OR SPEAK TO THE GUY WHO PARKED HIS CAR THERE, WHEN TO THE LEFT THERE IS A CAR PARK, WHAT IS IT THAT COMMUNITY WANT, WHAT ROLE ARE THEY WILLING TO PLAY IN DEVELOPMENT AND MAINTAINING DEVELOPMENT. COMMUNITY IS IGNORANT OF THIS. THERE NEEDS TO BE A PARTNERING WITH COMMUNITY TO SHAPE THOUGHT ON THE NEW ROLE COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT.