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PLAYSPACE PROJECT
FIRST ENCOUNTERS OF
THE 4TH 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
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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.
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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.
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| 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.
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