Bjørn Frode Moen
Let many stories bloom!
“Transforming in our time will probably need new agents and new forms and figures as well. Transformation might also have something to do with transfiguration!
The project manager of Trans-in-Form, Bjørn Frode Moen made an opening presentation on the Kick-off conference which was dedicated to the following topic: “Speech and language, storytelling and narration, form and content”.
Bjørn Frode Moen:
“In Trans in Form we are going to go beyond, or transgress what we have done before, and hopefully manage to refine our storytelling and new narratives, - and narratives are of course more than fairytales! But fairytales as well as Trans in Form communicate intention and a will to achieve something!
Our “attractivity barometer” is somewhat in relation with these kinds of narratives. By means of objective and subjective criteria: finding our regions and places guilty or not guilty – or perhaps finding a trigger to make us well? The objective data found in the research to be performed, should reveal:
- Are we attractive or not?
- Could the research conclude that we are guilty or not guilty?
- Could these narratives help us to get well?
Our “attractivity barometers” are narratives and storytelling. But – this kind of storytelling is more for finding problems than solving problems!
New narratives try to cultivate the illusion of reality – unmask one perspective and reveal another. In my thinking, - and now in speech, this could mean that the new narratives for our regions, cities and places should reflect multiple possibilities. There are probably no truths that will last forever!
We must never forget that the tyranny of the single true story led our politicians to guaranty freedom of expression. I would like to say with Jerome Bruner: “Let many stories bloom!”
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