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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