Unsworn: In the City – The Ballets

You take Erik Sandelin and Magnus Torstensson and you mix ‘em up and you have Unsworn. Both guys studied Interaction Design in K3: Malmö so they knew what we guys were up too. They didn’t spend much time telling what they did or what their projects were, they started with some definitions actually and they were good at giving examples and occasionally one of the examples was from them so we after all we got to see what the chaps were up too after all.

They started immediately by stating what our third and final assignment was and it’s called “In the City – The Ballets”. Simply put; we have to make a choreography and teach it to our fellow students and perform it tomorrow.

They talked about a relative new term for me: “Action Spaces”. Defined it means something like this: “the systems that quietly order us about”. Either that is a very literal translation from Swedish to English or it’s that difficult. Luckily they gave some examples. It are things that are placed to do (or not to do) what you should expect: like traffic lights, skate stoppers (plastic lips so skateboarders can’t grind benches anymore), wikipages,… In fact it can be considered as frameworks to work in with each framework having his own bounderies, limits and rules.

Intresting and Action Spaces is the new upcoming buzzword.

So back to the assignment. To give an example they made a choreography themselves! It was called the slowfox. Basically it was walking a path that took you normally 10 minutes and we had to walk it in 30 minutes. Strange, I didn’t like it actually, it didn’t make sense for me much and people around us totally hadn’t a clue what we were busy with. We should have wondered that we start wondering if we walk slowly through a shopping street.

Afterwards our group gathered to figure out how our choreography will look like. We kept away from the walking ideas and whatever. Now we wanted that people did the same thing all at once. Basically: tomorrow, Malmö will have a bunch of paper airplanes.