NBGNGS: the brainstorm

Okay after Fridays walk, it was up to us to change the space we walked in (a park close to the city library). We agreed on meeting up at nine in school to brainstorm what we could do, a strange brainstorm session if you ask me, we all thought we had too few (good) ideas after the first forty minutes (tested as the longest time you can brainstorm with big groups). So we decided to leave and come back for an afternoon brainstorm session, which ended up in only repeating what we had in the morning, but defining it more. In the end we actually realized we had several good ideas. And indeed NBGNGS and CCREP liked our ideas, because of their fun and theory-behind-it factors.

Not going to give you a full review off all our ideas (I upload the brainstorm scheme tomorrow), just going to discuss the one I’m going to work out with my group.

In theory it’s simple: we build a wall (half a meter high) in the park over a walking pad. Now what will happen that is the main question of the group. People will start interacting to help each other over the obstacle (old ladies, ladies with prams,…). Personally I think, Swedes are very much going to dislike this idea and are just going to turn away, what is also something I want to see: A Swede turning his back to the problem because he is actually very introvert.

Another thing is the fact that a park is actually a manmade area, the only thing is that people don’t fully realize this anymore. So why don’t add a manmade obstacle to let them realize that somebody designed the park with walking ways and made it usable. So actually we are making the park a little bit more “real” towards nature, because in a real forest you also have to find you way through “obstacles”. Will people like their more nature-like park? We’ll find out tomorrow.

Other ideas our big group is making: one group is going to work with a velvet rope to make people walk the grass instead of walking a pathway, another is setting a 2 meters stroke of the park on fire to symbolize renewal.