Enquiries from 1st Creative Gathering

Creative Gatherings - the first one has happened! It's about artists and arts organisations living and working in Peterborough coming together to share and develop practice and experiment in developing new approaches to the agendas of place-making at the heart of the project. It was great to see so many people there and we're looking forward to the next one on October 4th - meanwhile, here are the questions we surfaced through our musing on Belonging and our rambling through the Museum;

To what extent does society’s values/perceptions influence an individuals sense of belonging?

Is belonging a physical or emotional attachment?

To feel that you belong is it necessary to have a family connection, an ownership or input/something to offer?

How do you get people to connect who they are with where they are?

Genius Loci – “Spirit of the Place” – Do you feel that a building or monument can be imbued with the history and memories of its past inhabitants and can there be an instant sense of belonging?

Are other people fundamental to one’s sense of belonging?

Are there degrees of belonging? Is participating more important than observing? Or are they equal?

How do you arrange your here and now in relation to the past?

What is it that makes us belong to a place?

What is belonging and how do we know when or where we belong?

Can you create belonging?

Are people driven to belong for selfish reasons or are there other motivations?

Is a sense of belonging fleeting?

Is belonging always based on nostalgia/sense of the past?

Does a sense of belonging emerge from repeated experience of place/experience/people? Are they all the same?

Looking forward to developing creative investigations together in the coming months.....

Enquiries from 1st Creative Gathering

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