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 Along with my family I was in residence at foam for three weeks in October 2013, firstly at Castello Parenzana near the legendary town of Motovun in Istria and then amidst the urban landscape of Brussels. In company with my five month old daughter Florence and together with Maja Kuzmanovic and Nik Gaffney, I investigated ancient and contemporary myths formed from making meaning of natural disaster. My husband Matthew and four year old daughter Miranda contributed to the project remotely from home in the Adelaide Hills in Australia. Miranda shared her understanding of the natural world through creative storytelling and painting and Matthew participated by responding to the concepts emerging at Castello Parenzana through an exploration of sound. Along with my family I was in residence at foam for three weeks in October 2013, firstly at Castello Parenzana near the legendary town of Motovun in Istria and then amidst the urban landscape of Brussels. In company with my five month old daughter Florence and together with Maja Kuzmanovic and Nik Gaffney, I investigated ancient and contemporary myths formed from making meaning of natural disaster. My husband Matthew and four year old daughter Miranda contributed to the project remotely from home in the Adelaide Hills in Australia. Miranda shared her understanding of the natural world through creative storytelling and painting and Matthew participated by responding to the concepts emerging at Castello Parenzana through an exploration of sound.
  
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 This residency was situated in a house amongst vineyards in an old part of Istria. Florence and I were among friends and we are all highly motivated individuals. Therefore we began an informal discussion that developed over a week, with ideas becoming more focused over time. Simultaneously we continued to expand our scope of research as we shared our knowledge and experience and chased down leads. Whilst not consulting literature or media we firstly located our own knowledge and feelings about climate change and the stories that have and could emerge to make meaning of this. From this we narrowed the area of interest from classical mythology to weather lore. This residency was situated in a house amongst vineyards in an old part of Istria. Florence and I were among friends and we are all highly motivated individuals. Therefore we began an informal discussion that developed over a week, with ideas becoming more focused over time. Simultaneously we continued to expand our scope of research as we shared our knowledge and experience and chased down leads. Whilst not consulting literature or media we firstly located our own knowledge and feelings about climate change and the stories that have and could emerge to make meaning of this. From this we narrowed the area of interest from classical mythology to weather lore.
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-    Environment -> Uncertainty; 
-    Environment -> "Out of Control" -> Disasters -> Premonitions -> Adaptation; 
-    Environment -> Emotions; 
-    Environment -> Stories; 
-    "Growing out of links with the environment" -> Environment; 
-    Stories -> "Sense making" -> Environment; 
-    "Sense making" -> Visualisation; 
-    "Sense making" -> "Supernatural in a natural environment"; 
-    Stories -> "Contemporary Mythology" -> "Pop culture" -> "Everyday Life" -> "How people see things" -> "Stories people tell themselves" -> "Interviews/questionnaires?"; 
-    "Contemporary Mythology" -> "Science and technology"; 
-    Stories -> "Science Fiction" -> "Speculative Fiction" -> "Eco-disaster movies" -> Environment; 
-    "Science Fiction" -> "Science and technology"; 
-    Stories -> "Growing out of links with the environment" -> Culture; 
-    Stories -> Folk -> Myths -> Environment; 
-    Myths -> Creation Myths; 
-    Creation Myths -> "Footnotes, commentary"; 
-    Folk -> Wisdom -> Aphorisms 
-    Folk -> Superstitions -> "Old wives' tales" -> Emotions; 
-    Stories -> Emotions; 
-    Emotions -> Uncertainty; 
-    Emotions -> Fear; 
-    "Growing out of links with the environment" -> "What can be transported" -> "Legitimacy of a thread of Myths" -> "geography"; 
-    "Legitimacy of a thread of Myths" -> ?; 
-    "What can be transported" -> "EU - AU"; 
-    "What can be transported" -> "Continuity in the framing?"; 
-    "What can be transported" -> "footnotes, commentary"; 
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   * Considering Design Fiction as a possible aesthetic   * Considering Design Fiction as a possible aesthetic
   * Locating possible structures to work with communities on weather lore   * Locating possible structures to work with communities on weather lore
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 +//Tradition must be a springboard to the future, not an easy chair for resting.//
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 ==== Discussion ==== ==== Discussion ====
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 __Live performance__ __Live performance__
-  * Work with performers to create scenarios based on historic proverbs/ future proverbs+ 
 +Back in Adelaide I am keen to work with performers to create scenarios based on historic proverbs/ future proverbs. Photographs like the ones we took at Parenzana may be a starting point. I would like to try looking at creating theatrical moments that are styalised and that might transcend time and or place and juxtapose more natural non performative scenes that are specifically representative of now. I am quite clear that this does not need to resolve into a 'complete work' or play, but rather the resolution of moments might take on a form of its own.
  
 __Community Cultural development__ __Community Cultural development__
-  * Use the forecasting tools from Future Fabulators to work with regional communities in South Australia, particularly Mt Gambier. + 
-  * Create a discussion around " The Sun Is Different Now"+I have been interested in working in Mt Gambier on the theme of the threat of natural disaster for some time now. I grew up in Mt Gambier, at the foot of an active volcano so I am quite aware of how this experience has led me to the ideas I am now chasing down for this project. The essence is in how to create stories to dispel innate fear connected to survival. I am considering utilising the forecasting tools from Future Fabulators workshop to connect with regional communities in South Australia, particularly Mt Gambier. I would also like to design a discussion around " The Sun Is Different Now" and let this lead to another layer of storytelling about the environment.
  
 __Photographic study/ film development__ __Photographic study/ film development__
-  * Create photographs that include The Child, The Mother, The Storyteller in another environment. + 
-  * Work with recorded storytelling +In respect to investigating the potential of geographic shift, I would like to create photographs that include The Child, The Mother, The Storyteller in another environment.This might be an opportunity to work further with the ideas for a recorded story and fictive narration.I consider this study to go hand in hand with the research into old and new proverbs.
-  * Select proverbs+
  
 __Presentation__ __Presentation__
-  * Follow up research leads and calibrate an argument resulting from the various lines of related sub-interests.+ 
 +Before working on all of the forms above I feel that it would be beneficial to follow up all research leads from the residency and calibrate an argument resulting from the various lines of related sub-interests with visual illustrations to explain future development. This presentation would aid me to seek further support for the project, clarify my ideas and be a stand alone outcome to share with the public.  
  
 __Possible Finance__ __Possible Finance__
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 __Workshops__ __Workshops__
  
-  * Assist foam lead a forecasting workshop in Adelaide perhaps in connection with The Festival of Ideas +   * We discussed potential developments from the residency, Nik suggested there may be oportunities to involve people in scenario building workshops in Adelaide (esp. "festival of ideas") 
-  * Host a workshop for foam to introduce theatrical improvisation tools into their Physical Narratives+   * Nik and Maja would be interested in working with people in Adelaide who have improvisation skills (performance, theatrical or political) to further develop tools and training for prehearsals.  
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 __Family/ Work balance__ __Family/ Work balance__
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     * //Levi Strauss, Myth and Meaning//     * //Levi Strauss, Myth and Meaning//
 +    * http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-10-22/un-climate-chief-warns-of-nsw-27doom-and-gloom27/5036814
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 +    bgcolor = "grey93";
 +    rankdir="LR";
 +    node [shape = doublecircle]; Stories Emotions Environment;
 +    node [shape = box];
 +    Environment -> Uncertainty;
 +    Environment -> "Out of Control" -> Disasters -> Premonitions -> Adaptation;
 +    Environment -> Emotions;
 +    Environment -> Stories;
 +    "Growing out of links with the environment" -> Environment;
 +    Stories -> "Sense making" -> Environment;
 +    "Sense making" -> Visualisation;
 +    "Sense making" -> "Supernatural in a natural environment";
 +    Stories -> "Contemporary Mythology" -> "Pop culture" -> "Everyday Life" -> "How people see things" -> "Stories people tell themselves" -> "Interviews/questionnaires?";
 +    "Contemporary Mythology" -> "Science and technology";
 +    Stories -> "Science Fiction" -> "Speculative Fiction" -> "Eco-disaster movies" -> Environment;
 +    "Science Fiction" -> "Science and technology";
 +    Stories -> "Growing out of links with the environment" -> Culture;
 +    Stories -> Folk -> Myths -> Environment;
 +    Myths -> Creation Myths;
 +    Creation Myths -> "Footnotes, commentary";
 +    Folk -> Wisdom -> Aphorisms
 +    Folk -> Superstitions -> "Old wives' tales" -> Emotions;
 +    Stories -> Emotions;
 +    Emotions -> Uncertainty;
 +    Emotions -> Fear;
 +    "Growing out of links with the environment" -> "What can be transported" -> "Legitimacy of a thread of Myths" -> "geography";
 +    "Legitimacy of a thread of Myths" -> ?;
 +    "What can be transported" -> "EU - AU";
 +    "What can be transported" -> "Continuity in the framing?";
 +    "What can be transported" -> "footnotes, commentary";
 +    "What can be transported" -> "Emotions"
 +    }
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