Filed under: Communications, events, photos, Plans, street actions | Tags: Aalto Social Impact, Agricolan kirkko, Communications, Design Factory, flash mob, photos, public event, soita mummolle, Sonera, updates
This week will be – and has already been, even if it’s only Monday!- full of excitement and progresses for the Soita Mummolle campaign. Here are briefly some highlights of the good things going on:
- Today I presented the project to the audience of Aalto Social Impact lectures. Many support pictures were collected, among which one from rapper Signmark, the special guest of the lecture! The mood was great and inspiring, and the story of deaf rapper Signmark really gave food for thoughts to everybody. Check out all the photos from the photo gallery
- A batch of 2500 coloured paper sheets is ready to be soon printed and transformed in Soita Mummolle signs: be ready to see them around the city!
- Wednesday 19.5 the 1st Soita Mummolle Street Action will take place! Already 6 people signed up for this flash-mob and I am really satisfied about this result, even though it might seem small. Our network is keeping on growing and I am sure that along these summer months more interested people will be willing to join the action with a big smile! 🙂 I am very looking forward to Wednesday, even though I am a bit nervous for the debut and I hope everything will roll out nice and smooth. By the way, you are still in time to join! For more information and the link to the subscription spreadsheet visit the Facebook event page (but PLEASE, just not mark “attending”… use the Google spreadsheet given!)
- New partners onboard! Negotiations for cooperation with Agricola Church and Sonera are proceeding: both (hopefully) future partners have shown a lot of enthusiasm and positive energy about the Soita Mummolle campaign… I got also in contact with artist Helena Björk, whose master thesis was focused on urban knitting, so we will soon meet and see how is possible to collaborate… but more news will come later, let’s not reveal all the juicy things at once!
- The Facebook group has been moved to a Facebook page, due to the high number of fans, and in the migration it collected already 156 “likes” in only one day 🙂 So keep on following the campaign on the new page! http://www.facebook.com/SoitaMummolle
- Tomorrow, Tuesday 18.5, some billposting in TKK and TaiK, before the schools get completely empty for the summer
All for now, and remember to call your grandparents!
Stefania
Filed under: ideas, projects | Tags: flash mob, generation gap, guerrilla art, knit, knitting graffiti, public event, public intervention
Ideas of a collaborative “knitting graffiti” event boiling in my head… I wonder if seniors would participate together with younger knitting-fans in something like this? http://bit.ly/38yxVw
I was speaking about this with Andrew, a doctoral student in Media Lab (Aalto University School of Art and Design), and I found these practices so inspiring: soft yet rebellious, they put public authorities in doubt if getting rid of them or keeping them. It is a visible form of guerrilla art, but in the same moment is so mild and sympathetic that you would feel like a brute in tearing away the knits…
I would like to create an event that would bring together people from different ages, held in a public space, hopefully outdoors during a lovely sunny summer day, helping to fill the generation gap. I just wonder if seniors would appreciate some kind of fun, lively knitting public intervention in the city environment, or they would consider it as an act of vandalism…
Your opinions?
Stefania
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