I’ve orgainsed a one-off bus tour of Poole’s working landscape. This is part of the Our Working Lives oral history project that has explored people’s working lives in the 40s and 50s.
Managed to hire a 1959 Routemaster bus to allow passengers to travel through time on a mystery tour & hear a soundtrack of Poole’s working landscape.
The tour will take visitors to areas in Poole not usually visited by commercial tour packages. The tour will snake through Poole’s industrial estates, as well as other interesting features of Poole’s economic landscape.
During the tour you will hear everyday people talk about their working life, about Poole history and how its infrastructure has developed. Interspersed you will hear about life today in Poole and its possible economic future.
The aim of this tour is to present history live in the ‘real’ world, so that history merges with the present. It will allow passengers to hear people describe places that no longer exists while travelling through these landscapes.
Into the final stages now and been busy compiling all the data produced. The first result of all our joint working is a soundscape of Dartmoor being played on framework radio.
This hour long soundscape broadcasting on following stations:
sunday, 10pm, london, ukon *resonance 104.4fm* (http://www.resonancefm.com)wednesday, 1am, thessaloniki, gr on *cooradio* (http://www.cooradio.com)wednesday, 3am,lisbon, pt on *radio zero* (http://www.radiozero.pt)thursday, 7pm,lisbon, pt on *radio zero* (http://www.radiozero.pt)friday, 1am, brussels, be on *radio campus 92.1fm* (http://www.radiocampusbruxelles.org)saturday, 11am, new york state, us on *wgxc 90.7fm* (http://www.wgxc.org)saturday, 5pm, south devon, uk on*soundartradio 102.5fm* (http://www.soundartradio.org.uk)
The audio features a Dartmoor soundscape with the students description of the landscape, in combination of spoken word and background sounds.
This framework:afield documents the creative collaboration between Devon Arts in School, South Dartmoor Community College, 271 Year 8 students and Joe Stevens, as part of The School Looks Around. The project aimed to use creativity to make the local area and issues of society and citizenship come alive for young people, and establish new and lasting connections between students, schools and their communities.
