Princeton Student Colony, day #1

…kicked off today with thirteen students gathering for warmth, discussion, and dinner from the crockpot in the domed tent for 8 hours on the highly visible big wood public platform centrally situated on the New South lawn, that collaborator Dan wood of Work AC and I had set up – where, for the next four months, they will be making themselves at home and making things happen – plus in the following weeks to be joined by distinguished inspiring visitors J Morgan Puett, Chip Lord, Robby Herbt, Can Altay, and Lisa Anne Auerbach. (website)

We have colonized and temporarily domesticated a strategic location on the Princeton University campus where we are making ourselves at home, creating an evolving lounge / laboratory / stage / platform / headquarters for the presentation and performance of fundamental human activities often ignored by the academic disciplines, such as cooking, composting, dancing, eating, exercising, gathering, gardening, meeting, moving, napping, performing, recycling, socializing, stretching, talking, walking, washing, etc. Students of archeology, art, architecture, dance, engineering, literature, physics, politics, and beyond are working in partnership with student clubs and communities to conceptualize, design, create, and build the settlement over the course of the academic term; with the possibility for each student to develop his or her individual project(s) responding to the larger whole. We began settling the New South lawn site on February 6th, 2012, in our 20′ diameter all-weather geodesic tent headquarters on a 24′ x 72′ wood platform/stage where the Colony will gradually unfold and develop through the season, with public projects, installations, performances, meetings, and events.