Not inspired
We had been divided up last night into two groups, one each for the two areas of Enschede in which we are to be working. The group that I am in is to focus on the area of Roombeek, the site of the explosion of a fireworks factory in 2000 which killed 22 people and devastated the surrounding area.
The neighbourhood has since been extensively redeveloped and regenerated, such that there is very little in the way of evidence of what happened here.
I have to say that I was really tired today, and I found it very difficult to get inspired by this place in any way. Perhaps it was just lack of energy, but it really was doing nothing for me. When an area is so carefully planned and constructed that nothing appears to be left to chance, as seems to be the case here, then it is quite hard to find interesting things to work with.
I felt pretty much the same (although for very different reasons) at the same stage of the Diyarbakir project however, and so I am prepared to give it the benefit of the doubt.
