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I’ve actually been blogging lately — not here, but at Three Way Street, “a group blog that explores how people remember, engage with and remake their environments in creative, everyday ways.”

It’s an off-the-cuff collaboration with some of the folks from the Community Museum Project whom I met in Hong Kong, plus some others you might know, like Jean from creativity/machine. It’s mainly a vehicle for to sharing observations amongst ourselves, towards the possibility of organising some kind of event/exhibition dealing with the aesthetico-political aspects of everyday life “environmental” creativity — from material visual cultures of the city to online spaces, etc.

While it’s a low key experiment, I do want to avoid Three Way Street being just a dump for our own random online link-trawling. We need your help: if you’re wandering the city, the countryside or cyberspace and come across something cool that people are doing — adapting existing infrastructures and technologies to weird ends, making great street art, disrupting capitalist urbanism, embedding protest into the rhythms of their everyday social performances, whatever — please let me know. Photos are extra cool!

Of course, if you’re actually working on a project that’s connected to the politics of everyday creativity, that’s way cool too. Howard, King, Pak-Chai and Phoebe from the Community Museum Project will hopefully be reworking some of their material from their book-in-progress about people’s matter-of-fact (re)designs of the tools they use. Lena and I will be contributing stuff about our Tracer projects — particularly the digital oral-historical mapping project we began in Hong Kong — and then there’s everything that’s been happening at ICE, like the TAG project.

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This doesn’t mean I’ve packed it in here, by any means, although I don’t think I have much to say at the moment. Jon has asked for my take on the latest developments in Battlestar Galactica, but to be honest, I don’t have much to add beyond the stuff that’s already out there.

[ tags: geography, urbanism, creativity, cartography, everyday-life ]