Other Stuff
While most of my work has been motion-picture based, there are some other projects I’ve worked on over the years that aren’t.
Practicing Utopia 2007
In 2006 the Dunlop Art Gallery invited me to develop something for them, and the result of this was Practicing Utopia.
Practicing Utopia was a collaborative forum for developing proposals to make the city a richer environment in which to live, and an exercise in the role of the “amateur” in civic discourse. Its focus was on a process that is a prerequisite for any successful city; the coming together of strangers to propose, discuss and debate the shapes their city could take.
Practicing Utopia consisted of a panel of four citizens of Regina; the panel members were not be acquainted with one another prior to Practicing Utopia, nor did I know them. The panel included citizens covering a range of ages from early 20s to middle-age, long time residents and newcomers to the city. The panel members did not have any direct employment or training in urban studies, civic politics or urban development.
The panelists were Roshi Bourassa, Dan Bowman, Hilary Craig, Terri Sleeva, Hitomi Suzata.
