giant social mayhem?
well, I’m thinking what if we took the neurologists’ ideas of the group learning, the learning of children, and our own inadvertent embrace of play-spaces, etc… and design a series of spaces — public, private, otherwise? — meant for playful interaction, but also design sets of conditions under which the sites can be accessed — when, for how long, by whom, etc. etc., to see what kind of relationships and creative production result. I’m really just thinking out loud (or how does that translate in computer terms — typing as I go?)… I’m sort of stretching out the concept here and of course it would need to be reigned in… i.e., I’m thinking all sorts of conditions could be set as to these as sort of experiments in succession, a system of parameters expanding and contracting as the process goes along, based on results and their relevant predictions… more importantly, or perhaps not, but, rather than say “what are the goals?” I suppose we should first say, “are there goals” or is it — at least in the beginning — just an effort to stimulate these kinds of social growth experiences and bring a general awareness to the power of such situations/opportunities… perhaps so that more people will engage them in their own time/space? … ah, but then that becomes a goal, indeed. ha! and then, how do we measure this, how do we document it, how do we project this *process* OUT for more to see, experience… do we also use the scientific measurement tools of neurology, the documentation tools of art and design, the social networking broadcast tools of new media? how can we blow up the impact of the localized social experiment…?
whew…. enough of my ramblings for now. I could be way off base, and just daydreaming. but even as such, maybe it’ll get us to the next rainbow space. ;)
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