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THE STICK AS A SCRIPT OF MY MOVEMENT

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My experiences of living with  a stick for a week First week (Friday, 31 January, 2025) During the first week of my second term at Portsmouth university, I, as a Spatial Practices student, had to be with a stick 24 hours a day for a week. Every where I went I carried the stick. It took me a little time to get used to carrying an awkward stick every where  and people's reaction in public spaces. Sometimes I forgot to take the stick out with myself.    During this journey the stick kept telling me how to move in different-sized spaces or how not to move.  According to Jane Bennett's concept of "Thing power" the stick, as an inanimate object, had agency to influence my movement. For example, when I was going to get in the car or fasten my seatbelt the stick, which was in my hand, had an impact on the way I was sitting or fastening my seatbelt. In fact the stick had the power to perform me. Also, the stick played the role of score, as Lawrence Halprin notes in his b...

RSVP

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RSVP Cycles As Lawrence Halprin notes in his book RSVP is a creative process for collaboration and improvisation, being comprised of four different parts which are Resources , Score , Valuaction , and Performance . Reference means what we work with whether human or nonhuman elements which include people, their motivation and aims, materials, and  rhythms. Score is the scenario by which participants take part in the process. Valuaction analyzes the results of actions or is the feedback of the process based on project value. Performance is implementation of project. The most significant parts of this book are dedicated to Scores. In this book Lawrence argues that Scores are means to illustrate reality in a way people can conceive the creative process without experiencing it in reality. Planning for the future events is the essential purpose of a Scoring mechanism. Using some symbols, Scores are defined at the intersection of  a period of time and space to communicate the noti...