Meeting HATCOTW
In the ongoing saga of the conclusion to the HATCOTW (Here As The Centre Of The World) project, myself and a number of other second year students from the DAI held a meeting today to discuss proposals for what it is that we will end up doing during our (short) trips to either Diyarbakir, Beirut, Taipei, Damascus, or Khartoum in September. We had begun to talk about a specific proposal during the last DAI week, and today sat down to try and get some consensus about what this would be in some detail.
The core of the proposal, which Emily had taken the time to set out in a written statement, is that during these short stays (which we shall do in pairs), we shall prepare an “in-situ publication”, an on-the-spot, spontaneous, untranslated, once-only printed work to complement the formally-published book which is currently in preparation. The motivation for this is that with the original purpose for our visits being to “present” this already-prepared book, there arose a real desire to instigate something not so finished, finalised, and closed off. Since the entire point of the project revolved around the idea of collaboration and inclusiveness, it seemed a little odd to conclude it in such a way. Our idea was to address this perceived anomaly in a manner which seeks to compliment rather than compete with the book in preparation. Let’s hope that our proposals are given serious consideration by the co-ordinators of the project.
