I’m in – you know how to tempt me!
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Got the mail from Maria De Cola who is managing the residency on the FdCM side.
FdCM will decide on the dates of the festival on their meeting on 30 May.
Once we have that, we can start to plan the trips.
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unless someone else has already committed I would like to join you guys in Sicily @hugi and @alberto ? If the funding is insufficient I could pay the travel there myself.
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I support this idea. I think @nadia and @hugi can usefully engage with the tech team at MACHO, with the goal to produce the start of an art funding application. You, Nadia, could even prepare this: talk to your contacts in the art world, see where this could go, so once we are in Sicily we have a clearer idea of what to do.
As for the funding, Hugi is the master of that. But normally that would be OK, as I understand it.
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FdCM proposes to integrate the residency it in their Festival by organising writing labs/workshops.
These would build on the already ongoing educational activities with the high school kids in Messina.
Timeline & structure:
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mid September to mid October:
- FdCM educators organise a series of introductory courses on climate change & inequalities.
- during the courses, Alberto presents Witness through online sessions
- the kids - facilitated by the writing workshops specialists - write their own stories set in Witness .
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mid October: the residency takes place (working dates TBC with the schools next week - 17-27 October)
- it includes 2-3 dedicated moments where the kids join Alberto, Yudha, team, share their ideas on the stories set in Witness and receive feedback/input on how to work the structure, storyline and characters,
- in the final session, Yudha shares the ideas developed during the residency.
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after the residency: the kids develop their stories autonomously
IMO, this has a nice potential. It connects a new (and very young) energy to the project, it can be well presented in the media and create visibility with both the focus and the participants. Finally, the creative workshops like these can open unexpected paths and synergies.
Fantastic news about the residency finally happening. I have preliminarily blocked out 17-27 October in my calendar.
Absolutely, on board with this.
Budget is secured for travel for @nadia, @alberto and myself. We have a total of 1,532 EUR at our disposal for travel tickets and 3,070 EUR for accommodation and per-diem. Invoices are to be sent to me and will be paid by Blivande. I must be able to produce tickets with names for travel to Sicily for all three of us, and the invoices for per diem must be made out to us and not somebody else.
It would work a bit better if it could be earlier, maybe stretching back to include the weekend of 15-17 October. Reason: I have a Witness-related invitation (TBC, to be fair) to an economics festival in Norway, and it takes place on 26-29 October.
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Actually, no, I stand corrected @hugi @nadia @giacomo.pinaffo: I double checked, and it turns out that ICQE 2022 is on October 15-20. We have submitted a paper proposal last week, and I really hope it will be accepted. That works super well with the Norway festival should it happen, but not with the residency.
So, I propose to reschedule the residency. I could do most of September (except 16-25) and early October. If I could make a wish, I would suggest something like 30 September-9th October. Another possibility (though it does create a bit of the conflict with the EU Week of Cities and Regions) is something like 6-15th October.
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Those dates in September are hard for me. I have a thing in Riga in early September (also TBC) and a confirmed Trans Europe Halles conference September 21-25.
October is wide open though!
The only available option for us would be 6-15 october. On the 6th and 7th Gaetano will not be there, but that’s not a big issue, we’ll take care of the welcoming and the following week he will be available.
We will discuss later about how to schedule the activity with the students.
Fine to you?
Yes, this fits the Edgeryders crowd. I have not heard from @yudhanjaya, but we’ll reach out to him again.
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Update: heard from Yudha, he’s in, the dates are now set in stone. @hugi please tell us how you want this done administratively.
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I propose we all buy our own tickets and issue invoices to Blivande for the tickets and per-diems. I need the invoices to have the tickets and accommodation receipts attached, but no need to include any other receipts to account for the remainder of the per-diem (if there is any remainder).
Invoices should have the reference “Project: Sci-Fi Economics”, and the travel ticket cost should be on a separate line from the accommodation and per-diem.
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Hi Alberto,
any news from Yudha?
We’re having a new meeting on the Festival calendar this saturday and we could fix the dates.
Best,
Hello @giacomo.pinaffo, @yudhanjaya confirmed the dates and awaits instructions from your colleagues as to visa procedures.
Here’s an idea: we could also schedule a session of the Witness game. By then, @matteo_uguzzoni should be ready to start with at least the play tests (is this correct, Matteo?). We have a language problem with the schools, but not much of one since Matteo and I are both Italian native speakers.
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The witness game could be a nice option: could you send me by tomorrow a very short description of the game (in italian if possible), so that I can share it on saturday with the team organising the festival?
Best,
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Hello Giacomo, I can write something for you today but it’s not going to be the description of the game 
, on that we will start working on August and it’s going to take sometimes before we have a solid design. I can add in some previous experience of games that I designed for schools like this one Would that work?
Matteo, I think @giacomo.pinaffo means a concept, not a description of the game play. Something like
Playful Futures investigates how coastal communities might respond to rising sea levels caused by global warming. It does so in an immersive, participatory way, through a LARP (Live Action Role Play) with a science fictional setting. The LARP involves citizens, mostly young. What makes this exercise participatory science is that the LARP is treated as the field for a digital ethnographic study. The latter’s research question asks how citizens relate to rising sea levels (with despair? in a fighting spirit? as an opportunity for renewal?), what are their priorities, and which strategies they deploy (for example, cooperative vs. competitive).
Maybe this will also need the word “online” and an explanation of what a LARP is.
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Yes, what Alberto wrote is enough, just add where needed a bit more details to ensure the text can be understood by someone not too much into the “gaming” world and an idea of time schedule… in this way the festival team can better think about if and how to integrate this in their activities with schools. If in Italian would be great, otherwise no problem, I’ll translate it.
Best,
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