Sat 5th March
We move accommodation, to a wonderful house in Jordaan and spend a little bit of time running up and down the stairs (and away from each other) and relishing the space! Then it’s onwards to NiMK and our second pop-up workshop. coque samsung coque iphone We’re yet to fully collate all our notes from the workshops so this will be more of a step-by-step description than a careful analysis. coque huawei
Again it was a small group made up of excellent contributors, so really useful for us in terms of testing.We started with our new favourite game of phone hide and seek, rule set is simple. bijoux personnalise Played one-on-one, you are the phone with your opponent, then you take turns to describe what’s around you one sentence at a time, back and forth. Both players can move freely around and it’s the the first person to see the other.
We played it through the different spaces in NiMK and it’s great to see how hyper people got when playing it, and also to see how they use the ambient noise the phone is picking up to identify the location of the other player (made somewhat easier in a building full of sound installations)
After this playful session we went on a point to point walk towards Dam square. iphone case coque huawei Everyone was free to make their own way there (about a 10min walk) but we were all connected to each other via a conference call. coque huawei coque iphone Similat to Bristol we set up the mode as silence but invited people to speak if they felt moved to do so. coque huawei coque samsung The sense of connection to each other was interesting, at the beginning (while still in eye contact) some people found the connection more apparent, then once we were on our own lost in the busy Saturday crowds the voice on the other end of the line became a sort of lifeline to friends.There were a number of great moments of strong connection but my favourite was when I had seen kids playing with confetti on a bridge and then a little later I heard a voice on the phone describing confetti on the floor and wondering where it had come from. pokemon peluche coque iphone I had a sense of knowing a secret, but also of someone retracing my steps, not stalking me but somehow walking through my past and in turn triggering my won memories.
Once we reached Dam square we tried an experiment in fictional narratives. collier argent iphone 11 case The group spread out across the square, all connected by a conference call again, but this time we recounted the story of Snow white to each other. bijoux pas cher Each person would fill in a line of the story when they remembered it. peluche licorne As it continued people started to draw in elements of the surroundings as either memory triggers or modern day representations of the story. pokemon peluche peluche licorne Snow White’s moment of lying in the glass coffin in the forest became the group of tourists standing in a circle around a street performer as a flock of pigeons swept up into the air. coque samsung Sometimes people held their phone up to street buskers to add a soundtrack to the experience.
Our last experiment involved a bit of sensory deprivation to test out trust in the voice on the phone. One participant was blindfolded and then guided over the phone by someone else walking at a distance from them (myself an Emilie stayed with the blind walker as a safety back-up, don’t worry, we’re not trying to kill anyone).
As was to be expected people found their olfactory (so rarely do I get to use that wonderful word) and tactile senses heightened, but for me the most interesting thing was the blind walkers awareness of the callers situation.
As the instructor was remote the listener had to be physically in one space while listening to another. iphone case At one point the instructor in my group tripped over and the blind walker suddenly had to deal with hearing their ‘lifeline’ get into trouble, but they had no sense of the instructor’s location, it could be close (therefore putting the listener potentially in the same danger) or far away (unable to be helped).