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Drifting in Time
Throughout the week, another smaller project was
happening within our group, a drift in time. When we
met each other, we presented our 68’ photo to the
group again, to describe where we come from and
our photos’ story. This was a curious way to quickly
get to know one another. We often reflected over
the fact that we were not alive in 1968, and yet it was
still quite present around us, whether it is via stories
from parents/ grand-parents or in society in general.
We also took a first group picture in a dirty shop’s re-
flection, while walking (or drifting?) through the city
to get to know Budapest. Later, one of our members
edited with Photoshop our personal 68’ photos to
add our present group picture in it. This created a
certain connection between us and the 68’ genera-
tion; a connection in time.
Social Media
Throughout the block seminar week, each partic-
ipating group created an Instagram account to
record their processes of their project. A general
hashtag #mappingthelocal was used to see every-
one’s posts. Our Instagram account was named 5Lo-
standFound and we uploaded pictures as we were
developing our ideas and thought-processing. Our
account as well as the hashtag is still active and work
as a visual platform to keep in touch with each other.
This connection is a bit different from the others as
it was unintentional from our part. However, since
all the groups uploaded pictures, we could keep
in touch via social media and understand what
everyone was up to. We therefore asked ourselves
the place and impact virtual connections had in
our lives, whether it is on a personal level and more
generally speaking. On the last day, while we were
doing our presentations in Budapest to finalise the
block seminar, one of the lecturers, Peter Purg, went
back to Slovenia to work on a similar project with his
students. It was interesting and amusing to see that
they set up two tv sets to display all the images from
this block seminar. Yet another unintentional virtual
connection was created.For our presentation on the
last day, we decided to do things a little differently
than a banal PPT presentation… To finish off with this
week’s block seminar and on our main theme con-
nections, we decided to visually emphasise on the
connections created in this week’s community (stu-
dents and teachers alike). Before the presentation,
we decided to ‘take over’ the space and hanged
red wool cord everywhere in the building and out-
side. This created a sort of spider’s web. We firstly
played our video from our performance with a quick
introduction about our team and our topic. We then
thought of a game that everyone could take part in.
To prepare it, we cut the red wool cord into shorter
pieces about 5-6m long. During the game, everyone
had to take an end of the cord and tie it around their
wrist. The goal was to find who was on the other end
of their cord and untangled the cords to connect.
The game was longer than expected as everyone
quickly got tangled, creating a big node in the mid-
dle. However, we believe it was successful as every-
one laughed and talked with each other even more.
It was a nice activity to finish off this intensive week.
Link for the video: https://vimeo.com/304463203