Starting July 2008
July 2008 Research – Network – bLog
August 2008 at Drumchapel Roamings – Field work – Public actions – Workshop -
September – October 2008 Research – Network – bLog
November 2008 at Drumchapel Participants discussion meeting

Sensing Drumchapel.

The project will observe changes in the environment, and will record emotional responses within the community to a sense of place. Through field exploration, with the collaboration of local volunteers, experience maps of the district will be plotted, drawing upon the participants’ own personal landmarks, exploring the emotional contours of the community and its surroundings, and charting a series of significance trails, capturing and channelling a diversity of patterns, behaviours, identities and signals.
Different groups within the community, eg children, the elderly, will be invited to “wander” around and to point out different layers of human landmarks, indicating locations related to their own personal experience. The trails may evolve greatly and may also strike out in unexpected directions.

Walks will be recorded using video, photography and sound recording devices, as well as collection of objets trouvees to be incorporated with a personal travelogue and as a memory artifact, subsequently to be expressed through a website. The maps created through these explorations will be drawn in collaboration with the participants, and once again expressed through the website.

During the completion of this maps we’ll be organizing some public actions to contribute to the dynamisation of the area, some corner chats involving neighbours and artists, a communal meal, a concert and a presentation to link Drumchapel with other districts.

The project is starting under the umbrella of the Drumchapel Arts Workshop and with the col.laboration of Yvonne Taylor, Maureen Magee, David Davidson,  Mary Malcolmson , Annie Flint.

The first stage will be the drawing of the map and starting a work group which will continue to register current changes in the district. Through a website/blog it is hoped that a contact/dialogue with different districts will be started, to prepare a suitable meeting in the future to discuss, share ideas and actions related with community building.

SOME NEWS:

We’d been drawing a map which shows some of the features, landmarks, itineraries of residents everyday life.

Thursday a group of young adults will be working around the area registering information about subjects like boundaries, territory…

Friday we are driving around the van and planting a gazebo in different places to have a sit in and a tea with the neighbours to discuss issues related with the area.

This is the first draft for the map showing wood areas, green areas, viewpoints, landmarks, paths, fishing trails…