WORKING THE HAND - ART-DESIGNING TOWARDS A SOCIAL AESTHETIC PLANNING METHODOLOGY.

WORKING THE HAND - 
ART-DESIGNING TOWARDS A SOCIAL AESTHETIC PLANNING METHODOLOGY. 
The Tacarigua Sculptural PlaySpace Project, in Conjuring State Politics in Embracing Social Aesthetics
Journal - #0001
Thursday 19  April, 2018

PHASE-11

Dean Arlen-artist, Aaron Thomas-Councilor,
Emuel Dennis-Engineer, Sean Leonard-Architect

The Tacarigua Sculptural PlaySpace Project, has taken on a new phase in its development. I have learnt from moving things through this space, things drop in front of your pathway, they come from the side, top, ripping through the floor....it comes, it comes, it comes. The smile in it all is how I (we) have been able to deal with these conjuring. The Eddie Hart Savannah, aka Orange Grove Savannah, is a part of my experience, I have grown up watching sport happen there, I belong to that group of people who came to space to chill, I have always found that the Savannah was not about chilling, more about active play, organized male playing, i.e. football, cricket. 

Boom the Tacarigua Sculptural PlaySpace Project, evolved, through my experience as an artist growing in my education, finally coming to paper and pen, at Ontario College of Art and Design, through the installation program, I shaped the idea, of sculpture, being multi-functional, allowing people to play, engage in their energies.
On returning home, this was hard to sell, so I added "play" to "sculpture", "Playing Sculpture"....now, how that was read? was it recognized, cause people are focused on the play, and for some reason, do not understand this as a art (or even the transformational properties), even my colleagues, can't see the art in a project which seems more like a design project...
so, hey!
ART-DESIGN! OR ARTDESIGN
Which allows us to have a democratic conversation about aesthetics, where a hegemony has been created by designers and architects, in squeezing the visual arts out of the commons. When we have always been there. We never left (if we understand tribal art and culture)...this can happen in a later post.
So the 
The Tacarigua Sculptural PlaySpace Project 

As I have mentioned, allowed me to understand the nature of developing ideas in a space, ambivalent to ideas, ideas which don't come from withing the political main advancement, 
PARTY POLITICS.
Party Politics, have shaped how things move in this country, and I have had interesting responses from all parties, I have sat with
PNM
UNC
COP
MSJ 
I have sat with the regional corporations, commission of state lands, Town and country, corporate and community.

COMMUNITY LITERACY&CONVERSATIONAL INTELLIGENCE& showing love
Here, is the main core of things, do we understand how to embrace innovation, do we understand how to love, is another way to look at the question. I have never to this point; in negotiating this project, anyone ask, 
"HOW CAN WE HELP?"
Maybe, if it was said, it was said in such a low tone, I missed it. There is this political masculinity, which ascribes a certain amount of handle your stories.
Then they themselves, exclaim how things are hard, the systems is confusing, yet they're the architect or the gate keeper of that system.
CONSISTENCY, has some dividends, the other day, the corporation embraced the idea, 
for the first time in a long time

I felt included in development.as a an artist, as a citizen. 
Due to certain events in the community, removal of certain activity and placing that activity into the jurisdiction of the Tunapuna/Piarco Regional Corporation, TPRC. Which is The Eddie Hart Grounds, aka Orange Grove Savannah.
Me and my colleague are now working towards making these new adjustments, which brought up interesting innovations to space and how we make use of our space, inclusive of all our people (s).

CARING FOR INNOVATION
Now as we negotiate this idea through space, I'm weary of how the state understand, fully the potential of a social artdesign project to engage the negative behavior, while at the same time placing positive behavior in our community. 

for this to work, we need to invest in social training and consistency in keeping this system going, till it is ingrained into the culture

  


Innovation isn't easy to tract, this journal is an attempt to tract a art-design project, through space,

1. For archival purposes
2. The ability to understand the internals of innovative project development

So stay tuned