Thinking, thinking.

I have been in Espoon Keskus three times. The first one was during the week, in the morning. I was not surprise by how cold and unhuman the area looks like. Leaving in Pasila has made me develop feelings towards concrete that I thought impossible.
However, walking around both shopping centres I realised that there were people there just being there. They didn't buy or consume anything and they didn't look like the kind of people that are supposed to visit this places. Lonely people just walking or sitting. I wonder if its one of the only alternatives to cold temperatures you can find in the area. Having such a great and beautiful library makes it even better, but anyway its strange to see people not buying in a consume temple.
After this, I started to act in the same way. I didn't want to buy anything or to eat anything. I was just hanging around, drawing some perspectives, taking pictures. I noticed how strange it is to change the rhithm in a Shopping Centre. Usually you walk fast, you look for what you want, you buy it and you leave. But you don't stop, you don't look at the details, you don't think about the meaning of a place like that and how it is constructed around you.
The next step was recording sounds. I made some videos of the library, Espoontori, Entresse, the street, the elevators and the stairs. I think sound is something that makes you curious. You follow what sounds attractive, the loudspeakers tell you where to go inside the Shopping centre, what to buy, where to stop. I thought about using this sounds in a different order: putting sound of the street inside the library (this is also a way of breaking the glass and enjoying the outside from the cosy inside), putting the voices of children in the library inside the elevators...
It is a way of reflecting about the space, showing it as a global place and experimenting with the marketing strategies of sound in a poetic way.
About the materials needed, it depends of what we have and what can be used without annoying the people inside the library (fairly)
See you tomorrow!

Lucía