A young working mother has a busy week where she rushes from work to collecting her children from school and making dinner for them in the evenings. She feels stressed and insecure trying to balance her job responsibilities with being a parent.
As globalisation breaks down geographic, cultural & economic borders, it impacts our lives, creating new opportunities...and new insecurities.
Not knowing how to navigate a world constantly redefined, many people become tempted by physical, economic & cultural borders to protect themselves from what they can’t control nor understand.
Despite the opportunities globalisation creates, only some have the capabilities to re-shape borders and therefore redraw the political, economic & cultural maps about how we should live.
Corporate powers are blurring the borders between private & common goods, asset stripping our natural, digital & economic resources.
Even we, as citizens, can take our social codes for granted & find it difficult to perceive how they exclude others, in particular marginalised groups from public and political spaces.
There lies the biggest frontier, between those who reshape borders and those reshaped by them. If we don’t find ways for everyone to feel like they belong, people will no longer believe in the social contract and may look for other ways to reclaim control over the world they live in.
But there are methods we want to learn from that people use to cross boundaries between places, practices & cultures – from “reverse development” to “culture jamming”.
We propose a cooperative enquiry that helps people in four European neighbourhoods become co-researchers of their own communities.
Through cross-disciplinary activities, they would identify what borders are central where they live. They would work together across the cities to make visible porous cultural, social and historical borders between different local settings, in particular between East & Western Europe. We're looking for partners who use methods that help people open up about their insecurities (i.e. pyschodrama / scenario co-design) and explore the spaces around them (i.e. pyschogeography).
We then want to work with organisations from a variety of disciplines that can help the co-researchers co-design interventions or artefacts that help "deal" (break down, smuggle through make porous) with the borders they've identified.
Taking place in 12 cities across the continent from Amsterdam to Warsaw, from a storytelling bus to a caravan of the commons, from rediscovering the city through the eyes of refugees by bike to repurposing economic alternatives through a treasure hunt, the Transeuropa Festival helps people imagine, demand and enact new ways for citizens to connect across border on transnational issues.
With over 25,000 people taking part in our Festival across Europe last year, we’re really looking forward to this year’s Festival will be in many cities across Europe. It will take place in London from 16-20 October 2013.
To make this happen, we’re looking for the following voluntary positions to join our Festival Team!
http://www.euroalter.com/making-a-living
As globalisation breaks down geographic, cultural & economic borders, it impacts our lives, creating new opportunities...and new insecurities.
Not knowing how to navigate a world constantly redefined, many people become tempted by physical, economic & cultural borders to protect themselves from what they can’t control nor understand.
Despite the opportunities globalisation creates, only some have the capabilities to re-shape borders and therefore redraw the political, economic & cultural maps about how we should live.
Corporate powers are blurring the borders between private & common goods, asset stripping our natural, digital & economic resources.
Even we, as citizens, can take our social codes for granted & find it difficult to perceive how they exclude others, in particular marginalised groups from public and political spaces.
There lies the biggest frontier, between those who reshape borders and those reshaped by them. If we don’t find ways for everyone to feel like they belong, people will no longer believe in the social contract and may look for other ways to reclaim control over the world they live in.
But there are methods we want to learn from that people use to cross boundaries between places, practices & cultures – from “reverse development” to “culture jamming”.
We propose a cooperative enquiry that helps people in four European neighbourhoods become co-researchers of their own communities.
Through cross-disciplinary activities, they would identify what borders are central where they live. They would work together across the cities to make visible porous cultural, social and historical borders between different local settings, in particular between East & Western Europe. We're looking for partners who use methods that help people open up about their insecurities (i.e. pyschodrama / scenario co-design) and explore the spaces around them (i.e. pyschogeography).
We then want to work with organisations from a variety of disciplines that can help the co-researchers co-design interventions or artefacts that help "deal" (break down, smuggle through make porous) with the borders they've identified.
Taking place in 12 cities across the continent from Amsterdam to Warsaw, from a storytelling bus to a caravan of the commons, from rediscovering the city through the eyes of refugees by bike to repurposing economic alternatives through a treasure hunt, the Transeuropa Festival helps people imagine, demand and enact new ways for citizens to connect across border on transnational issues.
With over 25,000 people taking part in our Festival across Europe last year, we’re really looking forward to this year’s Festival will be in many cities across Europe. It will take place in London from 16-20 October 2013.
To make this happen, we’re looking for the following voluntary positions to join our Festival Team!
http://www.euroalter.com/making-a-living
1. Week in the Life ofYoung Working Mother
Actions Morning Lunch Afternoon Evening Night
Find a babysitter so
What does she need Collect her children
Go to work Eat lunch Feed her children she can go out with
to do? from school
friends
Get the bus from Offer babysitter to
Take the bus, arrive Reply to children’s
Buy a chocolate bar work and then run teach her English in
What does she do? early at work & problems while
& coffee from bus stop to exchange for
check her email preparing the food
school babysitting
Because she is paid Concerned she
Because her boss Because she only Because she can’t
Why does she do by the hour and can’t doesn’t focus
gives her too much gets 15 minutes afford to pay the
this? afford to take time enough on her
work lunch babysitter
to collect children children’s problems
How does she feel Not good enough Looks forward to
Insecure Sick Stressed
about this? parent relaxing with friends
Who does she Babysitter and
Her boss Shop assistant Children and teacher Children
interact with? friends