Concept Note

intention: to work in the realm of creating awareness of agency, and spread the message of the RTI by trying to HIT every faction of the society with interesting, attention-grabbing, fun participatory interventions, which make the use of different mediums. we want to do small things in different places across the city, to get to as many people as possible, and learn what works and what doesn't, in the process.

group members and inputs:

madhurya: I am interested in constructing the choreography of these interventions using real sites, real people and real situations and the ethics and ethnology of public interventions. In context to the RTI, I hope through participation that I learn the working and use its potential sometime in the future. I'm looking forward to using new forms of media, mapping information that we collect as participators of this project and documenting it constructively.

sankhalina: i'd like to work with this project because it involves learning something ourselves while carrying out the interventions, and also the fact that it involves people directly in the activities we carry out agrees to my opinion of doing something fun together collectively as a small contribution to make a change.

boris: i'm interested in the RTI specifically and what we can do with the information obtainable through the RTI, and what's available out there. i'm also interested in forms of mass media and social networks.

rajasee: i'm really interested in the ownership vs. usage question that we discussed in class. who do spaces, informations and rights belong to? and who ultimately ends up using them? can we plan interventions to blur these restrictions and divisions? also, i'm interested in the idea of the individual as someone you direct your interventions towards, rather than a community or a people - and how individuals have their own set of preferences and priorities. and how, it is ultimately these individuals who fill up an office space and make systems function.

HIT

this blog is a way of documenting the progress of our group project that we will be doing for the course called public spaces, hybrid media. The members of this group are Rajasee, madhu, shankhalina and boris.