A bit of a mixed week… lots of ideas earlier in the week which are all scribbled down so they don't get lost.
I've pushed ahead with the background research… I've been trawling through 19th century census results and apportionments in the Cornish Studies Library. That was a really strange experience as they are all on microfiche, something I haven't used for over 20 years.
Also been in the National Trust office playing around with Map Info, a GIS mapping programme they use for landscape based work-planning and trawling through their Intranet looking at strategies etc… This project is very much about working within relationships whether that be conversations with tenant farmers and wardens, or the wider working of the organisation. Interested in layers and layering… layers of history and pre-history and also interested in using the tools that the Trust uses in its day-to-day work within the making process.
Reading what I've just written I am wondering why I started by saying its been a mixed week… probably the effect of going down with a cold! The week was overshadowed by ongoing discussions around a relationship central to the project – it looked as if we were just going round in circles. But tonight I heard that the problems were due to nothing more than a misunderstanding and are resolved! Great as it now means I am going to be able to push on with the real research, meeting people, developing relationships, listening and seeing where it goes…
