Dusting off the old blog to add a new chapter on storytelling around the digital campfire.
Sitting in class on Thursday night, I was struck by the large number of my classmates who had just come to Seattle from somewhere else – many within days of the start of the Quarter. So here is my proposal for a group project theme:
Home
What is home? How do we know we are home? Is home where you are, or a secure base that isn’t placebound? I’m sure that in a class of 27 there are 27 definitions. The word home is also a metaphor for all kinds of feelings that people express. “I didn’t feel at home in that company”. “You can’t go home again”. “He was safe at home”. “I feel at home here”. On the other side of the coin, there is the concept of home-less. “He was a man without a country”. “People in Nicklesville just want to have a home while rebuilding their lives”. “Habitat for Humanity builds homes to give people in need a new start”.
So, how could we build categories to narrow the definitions into a set of stories that could be told in 90 sec. and, without titles or credits might fit together into a set of chapters without beginning or end? How about:
Home as a place
Home as a feeling
Homelessness
How people define ‘home’
Types of homes-people, animals, fish???
The power of home games (12th man)
How does it feel to be in a new home
Let your mind wander – what do you think about when you say “home”?
I like the breadth of home as an organizing principle. Lots of possibilities. I could go for that.
I think about home base and the dismal end to Mariner’s baseball….
That said, however, home is the kind of broad, compelling topic I could sink my key light into.
Great topic Harry! My video would feature Holiday Home Decor
The theme of Home resonates with me. Since Seattle is my home, going home to my parents house to do laundry, eat a meal, get taken care off…that’s home.
Two random thoughts that come to mind are Langston Hughes poem “Homecoming” and also the parable of the Prodigal Son.
Nice idea. This not only raises concepts of Home, but what might FEEL like Home, which might stretch the topic even further.
I like the universality and broad possibilities of this.
I feel more homesick now.