introduction to everyday and fearful place
As identified in the audio file 'Reflecting on Special/Extra-ordinary Places' below and on previous page,
the third Half Moon project research question (concerning ‘special places’) was not interrogated extensively.
The remaining two questions took prominence:
- How might the performance project at Half Moon identify and ‘ease’ a fear of place?
- How is everyday place ‘performed’? How does expressing everyday place through performance shift the quotidian?
Behind these lay the Challenging Place main research questions with - and particularly relevant for these sections - this first:
- What can practical intervention tell us about how abstract concepts such as place, community, dislocation and belonging, as theorised by contemporary academics, map onto the 'real life' experiences of vulnerable social groups?
Of course, the PaR enquiry revealed matter outside these two questions and this is discussed elsewhere on the site. The two sections Fearful Place and Everyday Place respond to the questions above in particular.
These short documents from the research project offer examples of performance practices we were considering for each of the research questions:
Original ideas for fearful place (pdf)
Original ideas for everyday place (pdf)