Ideas & plans

Hi all!

We are doing the project together with Maija.

Our theme is "this is our space" or "for us by us". We were discussing that maybe this project is about bringing alive and visible peoples voices and bringing them into the space which they use everyday. It could also be seen empowering..

Tags, graffiti and other writings in public space are abled for a small group only and a part of certain subcultures, and it's also illegal. The need to express feelings and raise questions is in everyone but as spaces become more commercial there's not so much freedom or possibilities to do this.

Firstly we were thinking about asking question from people using spaces in Espoo keskus but after the talks in last weeks class we decided go for a different approach- to look for questions. Instead of finding questions we want to raise questions. It could be something like:

"What would you ask? Or what do you want to know? "

We still haven't come up with a right question to ask from people, so if you have any suggestions please tell us.

Our question should be to be short and easy.. and lead people to think one them selves. One possibility could be that we would pick one of these questions and ask it in our next project which is going to take place in China and Russia in may-june.

There are some problems we were talking about / are thinking now:

Where to get the electricity? Which are the spaces we could use for this? Would be very nice to have this on for a day, but who is watching over the equipment?

Also we were thinking can anyone see the video if it's shown daytime- the evenings and night are not that exciting as the place is used mostly during the mornigs and daytime.

Are there some other formats that we could use to project video or photos or images?

We liked the train station most, also the bridge between shopping center is very nice as it is quite empty and there aren't too many advertisements.

Feel free to comment,

Sanna