According to the online Oxford Dictionary, the definition of ‘Inconsolable’ is “(Of a person or their grief) not able to be comforted or alleviated” (Oxforddictionaries.com). Ciara and I decided to take a walk around Lincoln, to find out if buildings could make us so unhappy that we would be inconsolable. We realise now, that although buildings can make you seem sad or depressed, it is not, however, inconsolable.

We played on the fact that these buildings below made us sad:

  This is a picture taken from the side of the Main Building, it is not so much the building that makes me sad but more what I feel when I look at that sign. Although university is an absolute joy of my life, it still upsets me that I am more than halfway through my university days.

 Waterstones. Most people might look at Waterstones and think that it is a happy place, where so many brilliant writers have written adventures and journeys. I however, look at Waterstones and get upset about the amount of books I wished I had on my bookshelf. So many stories I wish to read. Waterstones reminds me that my life is a ticking clock and that I will/may not ever get to read all the books I wish to in my lifetime.

Although the train tracks are not a building as such, they still however, make me late to my lectures. Before taking this picture I met one of my course mates at the barriers. She looked over at me glumly and huffed as if to say “I’m stuck again!”. Everyone who lives in Lincoln knows how much sadness the barriers bring to your life.

Even after living in Lincoln for a year and a half now, Ciara and I still found it strange that tourists and other passers-by, often took photos of this strange staircase that leads no where. This abandoned building upsets me as once upon a time this would have been a thriving business or a home. It upsets me as many pretty places are now no longer pretty.

 The war memorial in Lincoln High Street, although not a building as such, is the one place that makes me feel true sadness. This is because it is a grave stone for the many men who died at war from our city. The lives the war took and the families it left behind are the reasons that this memorial is at the top of my sad list.

Oxforddictionaries.com,. ‘Inconsolable – Definition Of Inconsolable In English From The Oxford Dictionary’. N.p., 2015. Web. 5 Feb. 2015.

When reading Pervasive Games, several questions popped into my head. One of the main questions that came to mind when reading Pervasive Games was  “Is it morally right, even through performance, to perform around or use people without them knowing?”. I find it interesting to read how far these men went. To the point where he was terrifying passers by “because they were not aware that he was a performer; whereas the audience within the National Theatre was.” (Tapper, n.d.) This seems a very immoral thing to do to the public, as if it is done too convincingly, it could leave the audience with a permanent terror or worse it could hurt them mentally. However I do think it has a very big impact, bigger than a performance which members of the public know is happening. It is also easier to catch real expressions of emotion when the audience is not expecting it.

Even though this seems immoral in ways, I think it could be very expressive if done right.

Tapper, J. (n.d.). PERVASIVE GAMES: REPRESENTATIONS OF EXISTENTIAL IN-BETWEEN-NESS.Themes in Theatre — Collective Approaches to Theatre & Performance, [online] p.146. Available at: https://blackboard.lincoln.ac.uk/bbcswebdav/pid-944133-dt-content-rid-1816819_2/courses/DRA2035M-1415/Pervasive%20Games%20-%20Representations%20of%20in-betweeneness.pdf [Accessed 1 Feb. 2015].

When reading the pervasive media cookbook, this aspect of the text seemed relevant and questioned my studies: “Where will your user be? What time of day or night might it be? What will the immediate context offer, what can be seen, what can be heard (smelt, touched) ?” (Pervasivemediacookbook.com, 2015) this is because when creating our performance we will have to take into consideration all of these points. This will allow us to make a solid performance based on professional context.

Pervasivemediacookbook.com, (2015). The Pervasive Media Cookbook | Context. [online] Available at: http://pervasivemediacookbook.com/essentials/context/ [Accessed 29 Jan. 2015].

Charlotte Spragg