Copenhagen: Aspects
Aspects are the equivalent of matter, physical things of substance. Things we literally need to make, build or craft, or facilitate others to do so.
I call them Aspects to use them as a reference to the place from which someone is viewing the whole. “From the aspect of the building we’re in…” and so on.
They also refer to tribes of people who are dealing with a specific Aspect of the whole, like ‘the building people’.
The seven Aspects are:
The Story / World
This is the umbrella narrative, the actual story we are telling, and the world within which that story happens. It’s a three-dimensional story, told in a three-dimensional way, so the two are inseparable.The Space
This is the physical place in which the whole takes place, and anything connected to that. It includes the building / host company, and any aspects of hire, health & safety, and so on. It also includes anyone who is involved in the process of opening and holding the metaphysical space.The Community
All of the people who are involved in any way are part of the whole Community. The whole Community will be made up of a shifting pattern of overlapping, interlocking communities. Some of these will be internal within the whole experience. Some of these will be externally linked to the experience.Involvement
This word replaces words like engagement, participation, immersive, interactive. Involvement covers every aspect of how Community and Story/World connect.Resources
Set, costumes, props, lights, food, drink, merchandise, programmes, stationery, cameras, screens. Anything and everything we might need that is essentially portable and would feature in a list called ‘Stuff We Need’.Finance
Money. Incoming, and outgoing. Rather than pecuniary value, we value experience. Currently, the financial model works on a sliding scale of experience. Those with relevant experience who can make significant contribution to the fabric of the whole are paid by us. Those without relevant experience who cannot yet contribute to the fabric of the whole are invited to pay what they decide, which includes nothing.The Archive
The Archive is what continues to exist when the original experience is over. It includes the collected works of:- Capture (things we have photographed, filmed, written down, made record of in some way)
- Journaling (things that individuals have recorded in personal Journals)
- Responses (things that creatives, commentators or analysts have created themselves, in response)
- Emanations (things that flow out from / forward from the original, things that are inspired by it, grow from it)