If you would have asked me just even a year ago if I would be addressing a public hearing in European Union Parliament, I wouldn’t have even understood the question I don’t think. To think that what basically began as an idea, and a not even a terribly well thought out one for that matter [...]
Events
Brussels or Bust: Making it Happen
Wednesday, April 6th, 2011Magdalena Festival: “From A to B, From You to Me” (Day 8 – Finito)
Friday, May 14th, 2010Ooof. Well its all over and Sara, Helena, Nikola, Oleg and Josip did me proud. On top of managing to deal with an extremely hard brief (inventing a currency for instance) and not being allowed to use a slideshow for their final presenation, they really did it. The final presentation was great, a couple of [...]
Magdalena Festival: “From A to B, From You to Me” (Day 6-7)
Thursday, May 13th, 2010Day 6 -7 Everyone was really hammering it down and getting down to work. They started getting down to building the mobile and the stationary joke exchange centre and I was really pleased to see that the students started working on a website to trade jokes, thus completing the system in an unexpected and really [...]
Magdalena Festival: “From A to B, From You To Me” workshop (Day 3-5)
Monday, May 10th, 2010Day 3 – Place #1 Place #1 was where things were supposed to be happening after establishing Home for the groups. Place #1 is somewhere the groups could walk to and they were to meet someone there and initiate some sort of exchange. The groups went out into Maribor and learned quite quickly that guerilla [...]
Magdalena Festival: “From A to B, From You to Me” workshop (Day 1-2)
Saturday, May 8th, 2010So they’ve begun. My students, Oleg, Sara, Helena, Nikola and Josip are now taking over the city of Maribor and learning the hard way that places, people and interactions don’t always come together very easily. Here’s what they were dealing with Day 1 – Home There just may be, and if there isn’t there should [...]

