Initial Development Phase: Period 1

(Experiments 1-2)

Research Question Version 1 – 

How can we as storytellers use Speculative Realism; its style, techniques, and intentions, to educate, encourage and empower potential storytellers to transform touristic public spaces around them into spaces where new forms of interaction and engagement can unfold?

Themes explored during the project

Change –Causes of change. Confronting aversion to change

Rituals

Sense of Belonging 

Starting with familiar creative practices/processes/methods

-writing methods – imitation, working with literary techniques, automatic writing

-organizing artistic groups 

-devising theatrical experiences

-devising exercises or scores for writing practice

Redesign Phase: Period 2

(Experiments 3-4)

Magical Realist Investigations and Re-framing through Spectra of Critical Tourism 

Adding in Critical Tourism and Intimate Tourism

Research Question Version 2

How can stories of magical realism related to tourist places, educate and encourage storytelling destination makers to transform these touristic places into more public spaces where new “intimate” forms of interaction and engagement can unfold?

Themes explored during the project

Getting there ↔ Getting lost, Travel memories

Expanded creative practices/processes

-touring as an artistic practice

-magical realist mode of making

-ethnographic interviews

-interdisciplinary arts