So this week we had our first session sharing work and it was very interesting. I really enjoyed seeing and sharing the work in progress, it was great to see where everyone’s at and what they’ve been creating. It was also really helpful to get some peer feedback.
Though we didn’t have audio ready for this week we gave each group a set of tasks that will be involved in our tour. These varied from observational and listening tasks, to abstract conceptual tasks and physically handling, reading and rearranging books. The feedback was generally positive with suggestions for furthering the work mainly leading to pushing our participants outside of their comfort zone. This is definitely something we are going to build on. We’ll be looking at furthering participant and public interaction as well as getting our participants to push the boundaries of accepted behaviour. This will revolve around questioning the heirarchy of silence found in the library and the ideas of personal focus in a public space.
We’re aiming to get our narrative down this week and properly record in the first week of April. So there’ll be some snippets and sound bites coming to the blog soon!