here studio
diversity
public
citizenry
local
everyday
humility
strategic
criticality
honesty
process
immersed
action-orientated
values-driven
communicative
initiative / permeability
brave (rarely what is easy)
we are less interested in solutions than we are processes, that is, we are interested in how to get things done and how valuable the how can be
we become part of the ecology, we do ethnographic practice
we are doing all we can to make our ecology better
we do get things done
we think and do big and small
fields of gathering (stages of action)
- events
o we stage happenings, make happenings happen
o we speak things, show things, practice things, exhibit things
o we bring people together into public conversation
- places
o we encourage locations of occupation,
o we gather local things
o we mobilize embodied energy, retrofit, reactivate existing public wealth
o we research processes of making places
o we work to deeply connect our locations to networks
o we curate places with space to…
- research
o we undertake academic research in a field of literature and practices
o we do and be case studies
o we reflect
o we prototype, iterate with narrative, make mistakes, follow tangents
- education
o we communicate our learnings openly
o we teach studios
o we publish
o we facilitate and share – pass on knowledge and skills in our interactions
Michelle and I wrote this a few months ago, 2:10, 25 November 2010,
Director, 'here' studio