08 December 2006 --Cezayir- Istanbul

Friday report:
from Taksim to the map and to the project.
Reaching our first pattern’s concept <<2>>

1. Presentation of the day work
The main activities of the day were:
¨ Discussion of exploration’s experience in little group
o The main aim was to reach 4 or 5 key words or topics related to specific place in the map
o Starting from the mind and topographic map of Thursday and using it as a tool again: now as the memory of the group
¨ First e non definitive drawn of a pattern

2. A preamble
Our main aim was to let people share the journey and to work out all the information acquired until that moment.
We had some important phases during the week:
¨ Oran guided visit
¨ a detailed history of Taksim: the journey was mainly focused on historical and social changes in the urbanistic structure of Takism square and its surroundings
¨ personal perspective on Taksim
¨ At the same time we have asked to the people o understand and to clarify to themselves and to the group which was their personal perspective on Taksim
¨ We propose an “emotional journey” through this area, starting from some pictures and the reflections related to.

Moreover, in the previous weeks:
¨ the group had already began his personal reflection about the themes and the single personal project
¨ using the 5 legs format, and thinking about some social aspects (religion, minority, and so on)

In order to avoid the danger of an overload information, it was necessary to stop for a moment and to let the group process the information, perceptions, suggestions amount.


3. The little groups work
Three groups of 2 and of 4 people worked together for 30/40 minutes in order to fix and write their favourites topics and their place in the map.
They worked as a project team, and they began to share not only the ideas but also the opportunity to reach together the final product.
We asked to write the main topics and place on some post it card.
In the following discussion, we shared the main outcomes.
We told about:
¨ Project concepts
¨ Methods
¨ Approach to the work


4. A list of project concept: a landscape of pattern?
We work drawing some patterns and exposing some project related to the first lines and points fixed down.
We speak about the projects with each person and what comes out is a little “list” of beginning patterns.
Here you are just a synthesis and a first selection. I beg your pardon if there is some misunderstanding or simplification. Please feel free to correct and to add or modify as you want. The projects are in progress of course.
¨ Sound map:
o the wave of the sound in circle
o a line with highest and lowest point
The project is structuring, but it firstly would have a research area and a recording phase.
Clothes resonant and signs of the sound on clothes: these are two different concepts for the final product.
The aim of the project is to let the people reflect on two main aspects:
o personal feelings passing trough the space
o personal responsibility and its first step: awareness of the “surrounding” of each person through the sound’s sensibility
¨ Taksim floor
The different textures like a melange are the centre of the concept idea. The aim is to let people reflect on where they put their foot every day.
¨ where begins or finishes Taksim: the Taksim borders
A research on what people think about Taksim’s borders.
One phases questioning people about borders of Taksim, the other following some specific sign in the city.
At the end, but also during the research, the project will be a multisided vision of how Taksim is perceived and about the meaning of border in Taksim area.
¨ political and social movement in Taksim
It was a leit motiv in our round table discussion: how many people use Taksim for political or social or personal reason. The main points of this perspective, was firstly written down on the map (the work is in progress of course).
¨ Taksim as a black hole
A perception of the empty and the fulfilled place in Taksim area. A site that is not really touching, but that is readable also following some perceptions, and reflections.
¨ Taksim as a patchwork
Many different social classes, many different behaviours, many different kind of people. In the map, the area of different part of textile materials, will construct the patterns of a clothes. Done as a patchwork.
5. how to go on
¨ fix the ideas
o projects/contents of the projects/main aims of the projects
o people/role for each project and for its realization
¨ go on working on patterns practically:
o which kind of materials do you need
o time for each phase
o space/tailor workshop/etc
¨ how to present the project
o when
o how
o etc
¨ the people leg
o some project will be done through the people contribute (people questioned or interviewed, etc)
o some project starts from a personal reflection or perception e should reach people in a second phase: maybe the last event is one step of the long process of relationship with people (that means also to wake up people, or to give some questions or to work on the awareness of some conditions, etc)

--report by noemi satta, maria chiara piraccini--