small modifications

‘...gentleness is the quality of relationship that happens when the elimination of uncertainty does not dominate in relationship in a particular environment’

‘The vast majority of human life is informal, casual, non-institutional. That’s where most of the power in the world happens. That’s where most of the difference in the world is actually happening all day every day, and what we [normally] consider the centre of power is, actually, if you were to use a margins framework (which I’m not too happy about, but I’ll use it anyway), is marginal to that conversation of power [understood] as the ability to vary the experience of oneself or another.’

-Anthony McCann

We need more stories about the labor that sustains society, a group of scholars say.”

Chris and Xin will share some stories on the last day of the project

...all that's caught in the lovely Danish word "hygge", a sort of cosiness. ...the warmth and feel of buildings, so well described by the writer Gaston Bachelard in his book The Poetics of Space... the spaces that we love are "especially receptive to becoming" – welcoming places reduced of inhibitions. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/aug/10/arts-venues-make-more-accessible-to-working-class

Hygge (“heu-gah”). The art of building sanctuary and community, of inviting closeness and paying attention to what makes us feel open hearted and alive. To create well-being, connection and warmth. A feeling of belonging to the moment and to each other. Celebrating the everyday. http://hygge.co

In a small room one does not say what one would in a large room.

Enter your room and know how personal, how much you feel its life. In a small room with just another person what you say you may never have said before.

It is different when there is more than just another person. Then in this little room the singularity of each is so sensitive that the vectors do not resolve. The meeting becomes a performance instead of an event everyone saying their lines, saying what they said many times before.

Still in a large room the event is of commonalty. Rapport would take the place of thought.

This room we are in is big without distinction. The walls are far away yet I know if I were to address myself to a chosen person whose smile would tell me of appreciation I believe the walls of the room would come together and the room would become intimate.

---Louise Kahn

Home-made baby wipes made from an old sheet, by Miriam

by Tod from the Crooked Spoke

We ‘tidied up’ one of the walls to make room to share some of the awesome making and initiatives we have come across in Dunedin.