I'd welcome comments on the draft proposal below! Basically considering giving people a (non-literal) map that playfully challenges people to reflect on how the library space (the venue) makes them feel as they consider different aspects of their space and their own (and colleagues) experiences.
Draft follows:
Navigating the lines
between the mental and physical library spaces.
This is an experimental intervention, guiding participants
through a psychogeographic exploration of the physical library space in order
to allow them to consider their mental models and prior experience of such a
space.
Playfully crossing the edges between physical and mental
library spaces, participants will explore different ways in which they may
experience physical and shared social spaces such as Dokk1. All participants
will be armed with a map and instructions and sent out into the library, before
returning to reflect upon their experiences.
Based on Counterplay participants’ feedback, this approach
may be adapted to help enable new undergraduate students next year to playfully
consider themselves within their new, confusing, scary university environment.
It is hoped that this approach will allow them to reflect upon their prior
expectations and experiences, and allow them to find new ways of belonging
within these new social and physical spaces. It may also be adapted by anyone
who wishes to explore how people experience a social space, or who would like
to help people reflect upon their own sense of belonging within such a space.
