Share Dust with us

On Wednesday the 30th of November we’re going to gather people together on and around a car park in the Jewellery Quarter to search out some motes of memories. We’d love it if you’d join us. (It’s free, but there is a registration list so we can gauge numbers.)

“Dust” will be the result of a collaboration between myself and Hannah Nicklin, commissioned by MADE. MADE is a centre for architecture and built environment; Hannah makes lovely, thought-provoking theatre-y experiences; and I’m thinking hard about interfaces for locative technology at the moment. That should give you a rough idea of what to expect, but Hannah has blogged the thought processes that came out of our ideas session yesterday if you’d like to delve a little deeper.

Here’s the brief we ended up giving ourselves:

... to make something that ... examines interfaces and how to create resonance in space and place. Looking fabric pre-woven and overlaid. Of narrative/moments.That heats and lights and races hearts.

We have only two more days working together between now and the 30th, so we’d like to ask you for a little contribution to help seed the piece.

Please tell us about an object you own that is tied to a particular memory.

The soap in my bathroom reminds me of an afterthought, a twinkle in an eye and a delicious sense of humour.

What objects trigger memories for you?

You can share your objects and memories with us via Twitter by using the hashtag ‘#dust’, or write it in a couple of sentences in the comments for either this blog post or the one on Hannah’s site.

You don’t have to go into much detail; about the amount of writing you could fit on a post-it or in a tweet or two. You can send pictures if you like, but please briefly tell us about an object that is significant to you and why.

Thank you.