Laboratory of Social Transformation

This Project is our response to a social communicative crisis...

Social relationships from a compositional point of view suffer from the uncertainty and rawness of human relationships, in contrast to very carefully worked-out status relations.

The Compositional method of solving communication problems in society is based on the concept of Compositional Imagery, which was developed at the School of Imagery and the Institute of Creativity Methodology.

Based on our experience in creating and transforming Compositional Images, we suggest using our methodology. In particular, the study focuses on identifying statuses as a specific quality of relations and exploring their transformation into purely human ones. In these laboratories, it is essential to understand what a composition is built on, namely, such a thing as a compositional connection. This is a key question in understanding what a Compositional Image is.

The Laboratory of Social Transformation can offer both performative and social-play work in separate working groups and classes.

The Laboratory of Social Transformation can be deployed anywhere - in a University, College, Gymnasium, or a public(gathering) area at the place of residence of the participants. The work is possible in the project format, with the involvement of specialists in Compositional Imagery, or the open format with the association of the citizens, under the guidance of competent curators.

For the work of such a laboratory, we have to use specific «dramaturgical material», such as a life situations, complex/specific interactions-relations, poorly understood relationships within teams of colleagues etc., or any specifics of the social life that the participants would be able to present in a metaphorical, «magical» or other fictional, fairy-tale form. For the primary dispersal of the group, we can use typical, problematic, from the point of view of communication, life circumstances already described in literature or journalism.

Through compositional games, the laboratory will explore both familiar and understandable crisis communicative situations, as well as unique, intimate and private ones, presented in metaphor.

Imagery, and in our case — Compositional Imagery, precisely because of its ability to impress, will sow the seeds of new creative solutions in the hearts of the participants, will give a powerful impulse to the transformation of social communication to its rise to a new level.

This is the level of Imagery that we promote and strive for in social life.

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