See map below, no 1: One of my stongest memories from the early days of K3 is a seminar with Bruno Latour on the mezzanine in Studio 1. I was pretty new in the game and did not really grasp the importance of moment, and the fact that here we were, a handfull of artists, engineers and design researchers of different kinds together with one of the most influencial intellectuals of our time. We presented "To Be Located," a project that we were about to start up, a project dealing with young people's use of and interaction with urban space. My colleagues both had a background in theatre studies, so we presented our ideas in the form of a play including mobile phones. It wasn't very well rehearsed, rather quite improvised, and our ideas were still quite blurred. Latour however, was enthusiastic, developing an entire philosophy about "drama, design and democracy." I tend to think it had to do not so much with our presentation, naive as it were, but with the situation as such, with the way in which we all were located, architecturally, societally, historically, at that time - on the intermediary mezzanine, in itself a result of non-finalized passage of negotiation....
Maria Hellström
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