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12:03 pm | 19 October 2006Three Way Street is a group blog that explores how people remember, engage with and remake their environments in creative, everyday ways: building shrines, stubbornly occupying public spaces in physical neighbourhoods and online, creating ingenious adaptations of existing architectures and tools, running grass-roots residents’ and homeless people’s action campaigns.
The idea for the blog came about after some of us — from Tracer and Information and Cultural Exchange in Australia, and Hong Kong’s Community Museum Project — met in Hong Kong, July 2006. We decided to open a bit of a dialogue. We’re approaching these issues from different directions, and using different terms and traditions — “indigenous creativity”, “vernacular creativity”, “unitary urbanism”, “community cultural development”, art history and curation, design pedagogy, geography, cultural studies, etc. — but hopefully we can engage in some useful exchange, and also work towards linking these kinds of issues on a more global scale.
Sounds like we might be on the same track, particularly the Hong Kong Museum stuff. Have a look over on our blog which has a number of things in a similar vein. In particular we are interested in the way products and artifacts can be modified and reused differently to their original use, both for reasons of sutainability and also simply as examples of human imagination. Creativity, ie imagination and skill, is the only thing that will get the human race out of the hole we have dug ourselves into.
Comment by Ian Milliss — 27 November 2006 @ 5:17 pm