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‘Wanderlost’ addresses the growing complexity of life in today’s city spaces and the imminent challenges to the development of the urban environment. It delineates experiences gained from a project’s work, which incorporated workshops, artists’ collaborations, interactive participatory setups in public, theatre and performance spaces. It is a result of two public workshops in the end of the four-year-long period in the People Smart Sculpture (PS2) framework in the cities of Kristianstad and Copenhagen, with public events in April/May 2017 and October 2017. In this article we discuss how the project was prepared, set-up and implemented. We call this storyworld ‘Wanderlost’, developed from the project CubeX “The Journey to Abadyl”. We describe this work in the sections Collaboration, Research and Methods to show how we draw knowledge, methods and research from our work in the collaborative network PRAMnet in developing participatory concepts using a virtual city, the city of Abadyl as a backdrop. We put forward our models for engaging participation in a storyworld to imagine the world and our relations anew. We conclude that the ‘Wanderlost’ concept and project can be reused and re-situated in other contexts and environments; keeping the fundamental three formats with a digitally mediated tool, physical guides and explorative walks and a map of amusing and provoking artworks as a matrix.
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The People’s Smart Sculpture (PS2). PS2 is a Creative Europe project (2014–2018) about new approaches, digital tools and digital art for participation in urban re-design, urban planning and urban art. http://smartsculpture.eu/. Accessed 15 July 2017..
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Here we use the term “Storyworld” in a wider context, as a description of a “mixed reality space”, were the artists/designers/producers, artworks, participants and the physical environment all play a part in creating the experience.
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A list of artistic productions, research and collaborations. http://pramnet.org/projects/. Accessed 18 July 2017.
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“Furthermore, if worlds are as much made as found, so also knowing is as much remaking as reporting. All the processes of world making I have discussed enter into knowing. Perceiving motion, we have seen, often consists in producing it. Discovering laws involves drafting them. Recognizing patterns is very much a matter of inventing and imposing them. Comprehension and creation go on together.” N. Goodman (1975).
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Artists Participating in ‘Wanderlost’
Artists Participating in ‘Wanderlost’
For Wanderlost in Kristianstad we curated the content of our portals by working with mostly European artist that worked with critical perspectives on our western culture, who examines and creates work of art in different disciplines. They reflect on our culture and our social life using performance, video, photo, sound and site-specific interactive tools.
We wish to thank all of them for participating and sharing their artistic work, time and efforts to the project Wanderlost. All artworks can be found at http://wanderlost.abadyl.com.
Abdulsalam Ajaj SY
Mischa Badasyan RU
Anika Barkan DK
Bombina Bombast/Emma Bexell & Stefan Stanisic SE
Jørgen Callesen DK
Digital Design students from Kristianstad University SE
Clare Farell UK
Joakim Frieberg SE
Ulrich Gehmann DE
Miles Glyn UK
Malik Grossos DK
Theo Hansén SE
Daniel Hepperle DE
Josef Isaksson SE
Michael Johansson SE
Alexander Kadin DE
Marika Kajo SE
Halla Katla ISL
Johanna Kerbel SE
Åsa Maria Kraft SE
Kevin Kerney DE
Linda Kronman FI
Fabian Kühfuß DE
Helene Kvint DK
Anika B. Lewis DK
Michael Lewitzki SE
Petra Lilja SE
Ollie Ma GB
Juhl Nielsen DK
Raphael Perret SUI
HongLin Qian CN
Vidal Rousso SE
Martin Rieche DE
David Rix SE
Johan Salo SE
Christian van Schijndel DK
Andi Seiss DE
Thore Soneson SE
STANZA UK
Ola Ståhl SE
Alexander Stålnacke SE
Fredrik Svensson SE
Michiel Tange Van Leeuwen DK
Jacob Tekiela DK
Trine Trash DK
Peter Vadim DK
Magnus Wallon SE
Michael Wirthig DE
Matthias Wöllfe DE
Andreas Zingerle AU
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Soneson, T., Johansson, M. (2019). ‘Wanderlost’—A Participatory Art and Design Endeavor. In: Stratigea, A., Kavroudakis, D. (eds) Mediterranean Cities and Island Communities. Progress in IS. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99444-4_6
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