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The value of creating a fictional world<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n

\u201cThe beauty of creating a fictional world is that we can, just for the purpose of the fictional world eliminate all these constraints that actually exist out there in the everyday world, which I think has the advantage of allowing us to focus in on, \u201cwhat would we actually like it to be like?\u201d
\n\u2014 Catherine Graham, TSDC Principal Investigator<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In this concluding section of our 3-part storycircle blog series Catherine continues where she left off in her discussion of the distinction between documentation and meaning-making in the TSDC storycircles and performances. <\/em><\/pre>\n
C: In the storycircle some documentation will happen, and by documentation I mean sharing information about the mechanics of how different problems play out in the community. This is always an important part of telling a story. But what we\u2019re really looking for in the storycircle is how things are meaningful to people, not necessarily what happened to them, or what they would like to have happen, but why is it meaningful to you that, for example, you would like to have a forever home? What does that mean to you, why did you choose to tell us about that?<\/p>\n
I think a misconception many people have when we first talk about TSDC is that we\u2019re going out into their community to talk to people about how they\u2019re experiencing something like gentrification and we\u2019re going to document that experience. But I think the reason that these performances are so moving to people is because they\u2019re not just about documenting that this percentage of the population is at risk of losing their housing, and this is what kind of problems happen when the elevator doesn\u2019t work, and people are living in fear of eviction, and that\u2019s causing health problems\u2026 All that is in there, but I don\u2019t think that\u2019s why these performances are making people sit up and take notice. It\u2019s because we\u2019re showing how the people living in this situation attribute meaning to the situation they\u2019re in, and to the situation they would hope to be in. I think it\u2019s a combination of desire and meaning.<\/p>\n
Another interesting thing that can come out of storycircles is a recognition that not everyone wants what you want. Sometimes I think even the misrecognition that can come out in the answers to \u201cthis is a story about\u201d is valuable because it allows someone to say \u201cumm?\u2026.\u201d If someone says, \u201cThis is a person who is so generous and gives everything to her community,\u201d someone else can say, through their response, \u201cWell I don\u2019t think that\u2019s really what that story is about, and that\u2019s not really what I want that story to be about.\u201d<\/p>\n
The beauty of creating a fictional world is that we can, just for the purpose of the fictional world, eliminate all these constraints that actually exist out there in the everyday world, which I think has the advantage of allowing us to focus in on, \u201cwhat would we actually like it to be like?\u201d\u2026 and maybe to recognize that we actually don\u2019t agree, we don\u2019t all want the same thing here. Working to create fictional worlds together, people quickly realize that the world is richer when we build it up from different points of view, different desires, and multiple complex reactions to what is going on\u2026.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s why it feels so important that, the very first time we get together in the storycircle, everybody gets heard and everybody gets told that what they said was meaningful, and yet, there is no authoritative meaning imposed. There is no moment of discussion about whether you got it or not, whatever you got is what needs to be gotten from your point of view. It\u2019s one of the things I love about the idea of the circle, we\u2019re all exactly where we should be, seeing exactly what we should see from that position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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