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By walking through the building we saw different stages of the building. When thinking of the building we thought of the building as a metaphor of growth. This building used to be a technical school and now it is a collaborative building where people can fill in their own space with different kind of bodies.

The project is seen as a single-room exhibition. The main idea was to show the audience the growth in its different essences. The exhibition will lead everyone to their own, and maybe even new, conclusions. As for the audience, the exhibition is open to everyone, however, our primary audience are the RASL Minor students, people within the Hillevliet community, and those, who are in the constant search of themselves and their place in this world. For those, who are in the state of transitional crisis.

The idea of mycelium comes from the perspective that in nature, in order for something living to grow, something has to die in order to support that growth.

The growth is a multi-dimensional concept. And each dimension deserves to be paid attention to.

"What is growth to you?"

When talking about growth - it is the process that matters the most. The same as in learning.

While researching the website of Hillevliet building, we noticed that they value the community and believe that “together we can do more than alone” and based on this, we believe that our learning experience can reinforce the value of community and communal learning within the individuals working in Hillevliet Building.

We came up with an idea of a short movie which consists of the compilation of interviews with people form the Hillevliet community, where each person extends the concept of growth and shares their own perception on growth, which gives the project more undisciplinarity

When we initially got interested in studying personal growth, we were stuck with a psychological view on mental development but came to realize that growth is so much more than just a simple monodisciplinary concept. For our research on growth, we are interested to hear how different people (e.g., age, education, socioeconomic status) understand the word ‘growth’ and for that we are going to interview the Hillevliet community as well as invite the students from the minor to share their perceptions on growth. We are also going to search definitions and studies on growth from a variety of disciplines and find inspirational artwork on growth as a part of our research.

The aim of this learning experience is to compare your experiences with growth to the experiences of the others, to connect with people by finding similar perceptions on growth.

An academic research will also be carried out. Despite the fact that it is important to learn about personal perceptions and definitions , it is also significant to pay attention to the scientific definitions of growth, in order to provide a broader look on a concept of growth

WHAT IS GROWTH?
"The act or process, or a manner of growing; development; gradual increase."
I see growth as a personal experience where you always come out better than before. In nature growth only occurs when something else dies.

- Knowledge multiplies when it is shared (10e example)
- Growth in the economy etc → tensions between definitions of growth
- Different experiences of growth - framing different questions leading to certain types of growth
- Growth is relational → you can’t see growth without comparing current to previous
- For one to growth can mean that another cannot grow anymore
- Degrowth, decay, losing growth
- Need for growth/always growing → implicitly saying that you are not ready, not good enough

When does growing end? death?
-->We are bacteria in a petri dish that eventually die

Are we the only species that have a possibility to make a choice of growth?

Ideas for the exhibition?
- Growing plants → giving a seed to participants
- Mycelium → seeing the growth and decay of it → visual perspective

Mia's notes on the first meeting:

Pressure Cooker Presentation:

Interview questions:

- How have you changed/grown while working in this building/community?

- What was a defining moment in your life that changed you?

- LAST QUESTION: How do you define growth? / What is growth for you?

- What should be done to make this a better growing environment.

- What do you do? What is your profession?

- How can you relate growth to your profession?

basic questions
how old are you?
what's your name?
what do you do in the Hillevliet?

People we want to interview:

Tailors & Wearers
Wijkspraak (Je goed recht) (court)
SKVR
Bureau Straatliefde
Beekeeper
SOL
Public Food
RASL
De Makerij (kids)
Phoung

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- What should be done enforce the growth within this community.

- How do you think Hillevliet can improve?

- What do you need to change/grow/improve?

I study Advertising & Beyond at the WdKA. In my practice I like always add interactivity or some sort of experience. Working with different mediums I like to prototype while doing research.

In my work I unconsciously take inspiration from the place I grew up in. Which has a lot of nature, personal items and nostalgia and combining this with new technologies. or technical installations.
I also get a lot of inspiration from music.
I like making work with objects that are already existing around me.

Some references I like :)

Tree carving
https://bjoernkarmann.dk/project/occlution_grotesque

Collaborative artwork
Pattern making

The rings of trees as a metaphor of growth

Archive pictures HILLEVLIET

INTERVIEW QUESTIONS 2.0:

- Start with introducing our project and say that we are not looking for one specific answer but exploring the concept and see how people view it

1. How old are you?
2. What do you do in Hillevliet?
4. How can you relate growth to your profession?
3. Do you see yourself as part of Hillevliet community?
4. How have you changed/grown while working in this building?
5. What should be done to make Hillevliet a better growing environment?
6. What does growth mean to you?
7. Can you identify a moment in your life that changed you/made you grow?
7B. When did you realize that you grew in that moment?

INTERVIEWS!

CLAIRE ✅
Teacher at RASL - 3rd floor.
Interview 16th of October - 14:00

RUBEN BOLSIUS ✅
technische werkplaats - 2nd floor.
Interview 26th of October - around 9:45

NOSA OSEMWENGIE ✅
SKVR - 1st floor (own office)
Interview 17th of October - 15:00

BEEK ✅
Boijmans museum - Ground floor left room
Interview

METIN CANGUZEL ❌ didn't respond
boijmans? - Ground floor exhibition room
Is not replying to our email.

ELMA OOSTHOEK ❌ didn't respond
Hillevliet HR
Replied to our message.
No date set yet.

WOMAN FROM THE COFFEESTAND ✅
Interview 19th of October

J. KRATZENBERG
SKVR - 1st floor
wanted to help us finding good candidates.
Is not replying to our email

TRYOUT PRESENTATION

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Ask students about their growing experience (during the last 8 weeks).

Try out the tree?
Try out the origami?