Think about the future and the past will come to help: Young Arnolfini 2017

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A collaboration of young people living in Bristol

Thinking about the future, our concerns and speculations

Realising the importance of conversation, wanting to create spaces to be able to gather and discuss

Using aspects of our own lives to tell stories and start conversations that can bridge the gap between the future and the present

This is a collection of our work, to remind the future of the things we don’t want it to forget and giving them spaces to gather and reflect



FUTURE GATHERING SPACE DESIGN


THE STONEWALL RIOTS WERE ABOUT STATE VIOLENCE NOT MARRIAGE EQUALITY



A POTION TO SWITCH ON YOUR CHILD BRAIN


Step 1:

Go to your kitchen.

Step 2:

Put on an old shirt; this may be messy.

Step 3:

Choose your favourite pot/jar/bowl from your cupboard.

Step 4:

Grab the first 10 ingredients that catch your eye.

Step 5:

Add glitter!!!

Step 6:

Stir.


LOOK AT EVERY LEAF


EXPERIMENTS IN SUSTAINABLE GROWING



WILL YOU MAKE A DIFFERENCE?



FUTURE GATHERING SPACE DESIGN


WE USE OUR HANDS TO GREET EACH OTHER, TO APPLAUD EACH OTHER, TO SHOW WE LOVE OR HATE EACH OTHER. WE USE THEM TO TIE KNOTS AND COOK DINNERS AND PLAY GUITARS. THEY BECOME WRINKLES AND COLOURED, OLD AND STIFF, THE SIMPLEST PRESENTATION OF THE STORIES OF OUR LIVES. WE DRAW THEM BECAUSE HANDS WILL ALWAYS TELL US JUST AS MUCH ABOUT A PERSON AS THEIR MOUTHS CAN.



VERTICAL FARMING


EXPERIMENTS IN SUSTAINABLE GROWING



VERTICAL FRAMING



To control the presentation of myself To control the perception of myself

Having ownership of my image and myself



FUTURE GATHERING SPACE DESIGN



My sister spilt the #coffee

@theDonald

The Donald



@thedog got mud everywhere

@theDonald

The Donald



My mum forgot to remind me

@theDonald

The Donald


BEST FRIEND message:

GOOD FRIEND message:

CLOSE FRIEND message:

FRIEND message:

ACQUAINTANCE message:

SOMEONE YOU PASS ON THE STREET BUT DON’T ACKNOWLEDGE message:


DO YOU ACTUALLY HAVE

4,160 FRIENDS? FRIENDS

FRIENDS

FRIENDS

FRIENDS

FRIENDS

FRIENDS

FRIENDS

SENT YOU A FRIEND REQUEST

CONFIRM

DELETE REQUEST


YOU OWE THE PLANET, THE PLANET DOESN’T OWE YOU




Catch a train, Notice the change. An instruction manual to seeing through looking 1. Choose a destination 2. Buy a ticket 3. Catch a train 4. Sit back and relax



FUTURE GATHERING SPACE DESIGN


WE WILL ALWAYS LOOK AT THE CLOUDS



Imagine feeling

lost

and

isolated


Bound by a label everyone seems to see But seeing nothing yourself And then at last you see a light

It burns

bright,

It draws you in And at last you find

release

Finally free to really look at life and see

This was what it was like for me I finally met a girl just like me She was

confident

and smart

I knew she would

And another

light

succeed

appeared Another girl like me

She taught me how to cope And she taught me to be

Like a

butterfly

free

breaking free

I found the

confidence

to just be me

And at last I met others just like me We laughed, we smiled and I felt free

We were all born

autistic

But we were also all born free Maybe you can

listen

to me



This publication chronicles the work of the Young Arnolfini collective between February and August 2017. During this time they talked about the future they want to see for Bristol, the conversation sprawled and meadered and collected new things as it went. The questions and experiments in this book are still live.

Young Arnolfini would like to thank the following people for their support in making our publication: Edson Burton, Basim Magdy, Bryony Gillard, Adri Bof and Social Skills Agency, Dermot O’Regan and Grow Bristol, Sarah Wilton, Mark Harris, Amak Mahmoodian and the team at Arnolfini.


Contributors: Emma Rose Phoebe Logan Theodore Kitching Ben Smalley Gwen Davenport Aimee Mccormack Luke Goldblatt Issy Moxham Sally Morris Lea Theobald Aneira Symes-Pontin Gosia Nyka Trystan Cullinan


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