Lugar X - Design
Dwell. Concentrate. Share spaces. Eat together. Small scale. Do less.
Looking backwards on the second period of the residency, the Design phase affirmed that the methodology starts even before arriving at the place and, like in Greece, it had to start including strategies to ‘relate with things from far away’. Due to the preparations and online meetings, before travelling to Mieres, some decisions became clear and allowed the research to have a concrete and tangible starting point, to begin with. Place X, in Mieres, would be about the dry river and the lack of water. Under this decision, the whole methodology was shaped from and shaped over a concrete place, where the research topic is real, and not just a metaphor, meanwhile using a minimum of resources (doing fewer interviews, less reading, etc.), in addition to allowing it to be the place, through its different emissaries, to inform the project on what needs to be worked on further.