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 So Foam, and gRig could be seen as subversive tricksters, formed to confound, confuse and ultimately destabilise consensus reality.  The nature of their work is to connect the marginal and foster the surreal.  To take it further, Foam’s notion that we can grow our own world(s) if fully grasped, has the potential to emancipate individuals and groups from a paradigm of apathy, fatalism and co-enabled victimhood.  So Foam, and gRig could be seen as subversive tricksters, formed to confound, confuse and ultimately destabilise consensus reality.  The nature of their work is to connect the marginal and foster the surreal.  To take it further, Foam’s notion that we can grow our own world(s) if fully grasped, has the potential to emancipate individuals and groups from a paradigm of apathy, fatalism and co-enabled victimhood. 
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 ==== Aim ==== ==== Aim ====
  
 This research project is focussed around discovering **the most effective mechanisms we can use to become more conscious of, and change, our relationship to reality** This research project is focussed around discovering **the most effective mechanisms we can use to become more conscious of, and change, our relationship to reality**
  
-It will connect disciplines such as neuro-science, quantum physics, art, developmental psychology, adult education theory, political science, philosophy, to name just a few. Three related activities: Transdisciplinary Facilitation, Ungenreable Engagement and Hybrid Story-ing are the subject of particular investigation and experimental activity.   +It will connect a number of related disciplines. Transdisciplinary engagement and Hybrid Story-ing are the subject of particular investigation and experimental activity.   
  
 The **overall aims** for this process are: The **overall aims** for this process are:
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 ==== Method and Scope ==== ==== Method and Scope ====
  
-Given we are dealing with the topic of reality construction, it would seem incongruous, and jarringly ironic, to use a positivist research approach.  Therefore the the underlying epistemology constructivist with an inductive research approach.  +The the underlying epistemology is constructivist with an inductive research approach.  
  
 Practically, this means that the questions set out earlier will be the connecting point for ideas, musings, and meetings that eventually will be made sense of retrospectively, with a deep sense of reflexivity. Practically, this means that the questions set out earlier will be the connecting point for ideas, musings, and meetings that eventually will be made sense of retrospectively, with a deep sense of reflexivity.
  
-Material will be gathered through+Material has been gathered through
  
   * Interviews and Connections   * Interviews and Connections
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   * Ethnographic encounters and Anthropological Immersion   * Ethnographic encounters and Anthropological Immersion
   * Reflective blogging and Existential Story-ing   * Reflective blogging and Existential Story-ing
 +==== Results ====
  
-and other methods that will be discovered.+=== The Blog ===
  
-==== Results ==== 
  
-  * A **public blog** recording research so far called ‘…..reality what?’ found at: http://un-fiction.blogspot.com/ +Over the past year a large volume of material has been collected through excursions, reading, interviews, observations, experiments,listening, perusing, participating, scanning and engaging. 
  
-Reality creating, blurring and bridging activities **written about so far** include: **Sensorial Labyrinths**, **[[ARG]]’s**, **Geo-Caching**, **Transdisciplinary Event Facilitation**, **Mixed Media Installations**, **World Generating Exhibitions**, **Portals**, **Fevers and Altered States**, **Hubs**, **Interesting and Relevant DVDs and Books.**+This has been recorded in a **blog**    http://www.un-fiction.blogspot.com/ and also used to feed this wiki. 
  
-Blog has drawn favourable, offline, responses, subscriptions and a small and loyal readership.  There have been numerous requests for further information about the content, including requests for details about Foam and its other activities. I have also had several people connect and contact each other through the site. Therefore it has already contributed to Foam’s aim of encouraging participation, and collaboration.+The focus of my experiments and blog based research has been methods and tools that facilitate shifts in reality, particularly those that disturb and confuse underlying perceptions of reality and/or that expand the confines or existing perceptions of reality. 
  
-  *A **public talk**, and potential collaboration with [[ARG]] expert, Adrian Hon and several other **new connections** that may provide useful to Foam and gRig in the future: Iwan Brioc, Tassos Stevens, Richard Lambe, Micheal Cheldave, David Peat,  Mary-Jane O’Reilly, and several others.+The methods I found fall into a wide range of artefacts and experience that are interrelated and deeply connected with the spirit of the Trickster which will be discussed in more depth later... 
  
-  * **Experiments and Field Tests:** +  * hybrids that evade categorisation by existing mental models  
-[[http://lib.fo.am/sub_pap_zones]] +  * activities that blur the dichotomies of right and wrong, true and false, real and unreal  
-[[http://lib.fo.am/awhi_world]]+  * processes that reveal hidden or obvious truths 
 +  * mediums that stimulate multiple senses simultaneously or by- pass well used senses and engage different parts of the brain that are not normally in play 
 +  * experiences that push the boundaries of consensus reality by inviting us to question whether something is real, exists, is happening 
 +  * experiences that allow us to grow our own reality 
 +  * collaborations that create portals between different rhealms ( spiritual, physical, digital, imaginal, magical) and cultures. 
 + 
 +Practices that fall into one or many of these areas included:
    
-     +  * **sensorial labyrinths**  
 + 
 +http://www.un-fiction.blogspot.com/2007/09/at-entrance-of-sensory-labyrinths.html 
 +  
 +  * [[ARG]]’s  
 + 
 +http://www.un-fiction.blogspot.com/2007/09/bees-beasts-and-batman-welcome-to-your.html 
 +  
 +  * **geo-caching**  
 + 
 +http://www.un-fiction.blogspot.com/2007/12/international-treasure-hunting.html 
 + 
 +  *** street games** 
 + 
 +http://www.un-fiction.blogspot.com/2008/09/this-is-what-i-am-talking-about.html  
 + 
 +http://www.un-fiction.blogspot.com/2008/11/gameland.html (participated in Blast Theories latest game in Belo Horizonte, Brazil) 
 + 
 +  * **hybrids** 
 + 
 +http://www.un-fiction.blogspot.com/2008/11/hybrids-and-connections.html (a number of links to hybrid work and engagement) 
 + 
 +http://www.un-fiction.blogspot.com/2008/09/growing-buildings.html (hybrid architecture) 
 + 
 +http://www.un-fiction.blogspot.com/2008/11/tourist-in-my-own-land.html (Krystle Tuvai's urban hybrid story-ing plus others) 
 + 
 +http://www.un-fiction.blogspot.com/2008/10/expo-of-un-popular-culture.html (item on Greg Broadmore and Weta Studios) 
 + 
 + *** transdisciplinary facilitation** 
 + 
 + 
 +http://www.un-fiction.blogspot.com/2008/06/luminous-green-singapore.html 
 + 
 +http://www.un-fiction.blogspot.com/2008/08/post-luminous-green.html 
 + 
 +http://www.un-fiction.blogspot.com/2008/10/return.html  
 + 
 + 
 + 
 +//**I also engaged in a number of other explorations,expeditions and musings that are tangentially related to this report**// 
 + 
 + 
 +  *** exhibitions and expeditions** 
 + 
 + 
 +http://www.un-fiction.blogspot.com/2008/05/design-for-other-90.html 
 + 
 +http://www.un-fiction.blogspot.com/2007/11/long-time-no-speak.html 
 + 
 +http://www.un-fiction.blogspot.com/2007/12/out-and-about-in-auckland.html 
 + 
 +http://www.un-fiction.blogspot.com/2008/04/educating-for-future.html 
 + 
 +http://www.un-fiction.blogspot.com/2008/10/expo-of-un-popular-culture.html 
 + 
 +http://www.un-fiction.blogspot.com/2008/11/tourist-in-my-own-land.html 
 + 
 + 
 +**  * publications, talks and movies** 
 + 
 + 
 +http://www.un-fiction.blogspot.com/2008/09/not-sustainable.html 
 + 
 +http://www.un-fiction.blogspot.com/2007/12/view-from-centre-of-universe.html 
 + 
 +http://www.un-fiction.blogspot.com/2008/01/shift-movie.html 
 + 
 +http://www.un-fiction.blogspot.com/2008/04/2008-shift-report.html 
 + 
 + 
 + 
 +**  * meandering musings** 
 + 
 + 
 +http://www.un-fiction.blogspot.com/2007/12/hong-kong-athiests-and-subconscious.html 
 + 
 +http://www.un-fiction.blogspot.com/2007/09/strange-case-of-mccanns-and.html 
 + 
 +http://www.un-fiction.blogspot.com/2008/02/fever.html 
 + 
 +http://www.un-fiction.blogspot.com/2008/02/portals-in-fog.html 
 + 
 +http://www.un-fiction.blogspot.com/2008/02/hubs-and-suds.html 
 + 
 +http://www.un-fiction.blogspot.com/2008/12/now-i-understand-why-postman-wears.html 
 + 
 + 
 + 
 +*** reality challenging psychological sydromes** 
 + 
 + 
 +http://www.un-fiction.blogspot.com/2008/11/greatest-reality-show-on-earth.html 
 + 
 + 
 + 
 +**The Blog** has drawn favourable, offline, responses, subscriptions and a small and loyal readership. There have been numerous requests for further information about the content, including requests for details about Foam and its other activities. People connect and contact each other through the site.Therefore it has already contributed to Foam’s aim of encouraging participation, and collaboration. 
 + 
 + 
 +=== Experiments and Field Tests === 
 + 
 + 
 +In addition to this research I engaged in an number of field tests to try out ideas in practice and make some attempt to transform the reality of a particular system and set of individuals . Results were recorded in both the blog and the pages of this wiki.   
 + 
 +**one off experiments** 
 + 
 + 
 +Subverting xmas and creating hybrid decorations in a deprived neighbourhood 
 + 
 +http://www.un-fiction.blogspot.com/2008/12/great-bates-street-light-up.html 
 + 
 + 
 +Reactivating marginalised spaces using geo-cache and treasure hunt mechanisms  
 + 
 +http://lib.fo.am/sub_pap_zones 
 + 
 + 
 +**large scale hybrid story-ing ARG-like programmes** 
 + 
 +Awhiworld was an experiment that took place within a primary school involving 150 children aged 5 to 12 years old,11 teaching staff and a six month time frame:  
 + 
 +http://lib.fo.am/awhi_world 
 + 
 +  
 +=== Literature Review === 
 + 
 +Material was also collected through through reviewing literature from the transformational learning field, from management deveopment, from anthropological books and from fictional novels. These are listed in the references section. 
 + 
 +=== The next section will summarise findings from all of these activities and discuss future implications and areas for further research ===
  
 ==== Discussion ==== ==== Discussion ====
  
  To be discussed  To be discussed
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 ==== References ==== ==== References ====
  
-  * Darwin, J, Johnson, P and McAuley, J (2002). Developing strategies for Change. Prentice Hall. P: 16 +  * Darwin, J., Johnson,P. and McAuley, J (2002). Developing strategies for Change. Prentice Hall 
-  * Cooperrider, D. L., Barrett, F., Srivastva, S. (1995). Social Construction and Appreciative Inquiry: A Journey in Organizational Theory. Management and Organization: Relational Alternatives to Individualism. Ashgate.  +  * Cooperrider, D. L., Barrett, F. and Srivastva, S. (1995). Social Construction and Appreciative Inquiry: A Journey in Organizational Theory. Management and Organization: Relational Alternatives to Individualism, Ashgate  
-  *  Kegan, R. (1982) The Evolving Self. Harvard University Press.+  *  Kegan, R. (1982) The Evolving Self, Harvard University Press.
   *  Kegan, R. (1994) In Over Our Heads – The Mental Demands of Modern Life, Harvard University Press.   *  Kegan, R. (1994) In Over Our Heads – The Mental Demands of Modern Life, Harvard University Press.
 +  * Hyde, L. (1998) Trickster Makes This World - Mischief, Myth and Art, North Point Press 
 +  * Schlitz, M.M., Vieten,C. and Amorok, T (2007) Living Deeply The Art and Science of Transformation in Everyday Life, New Harbinger Publications and Noetic Books 
 +  * Cranton, P. (2006) Understanding and Promoting Transformative Learning - A Guide for Educators and Adults, John Wiley and Sons Inc, 2nd Edition 
 +  * Mezirow, J. (2000) Learning as Transformation - Critical Perspectives on a Theory in Progress, Jossey-Bass 
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