Agents are different kinds of volunteers and groups. Various urban art acts inspired by the Calendar for Everyday Explorers are carried out with them during the year 2011.
Random Poetry Agents
In April a group of creative writing students from the university worked the local libraries creating random poetry. A poem produced using highly random methods could be found between the pages of a novel, a textbook or the day’s newspaper!
Wasteland Agents
The word wasteland refers to plots of land where nothing happens. They have been judged somehow unusable. It is time for our agents to make them visible again! In April the visual education teams from the university’s department of teacher education located the plots of land sitting idle within the campus area and explored what happens when they are no longer idle.
The Good-saying Agents
If you had an opportunity to announce one good thing to the world, what would it be? The last week of April almost 600 agents of the Raunistula elementary school spread good to their surroundings in the form of fortune cookies and origami, while 60 agents from the university’s department of teacher education left their traces downtown.
The City Norm Research Agents
Three city geographers from the university of Turku created playing cards that mix places and actions that normally belong together. The cards encourage the citizens to explore and break the norms of the city. The cards can be printed here.
Flash Mob Agents
On October will be rocked by flash mob agents. Teacher students will gather in a public place at a set time and do something completely unexpected. Make sure you have your senses awake! Perhaps everyone at the bus stop is going to freeze, or all activity near the Kop-kolmio be slowed down as if by magic?
Give art -agents
Art enthusiasts from Turku, the Sunday Painters, spread over hundred of their own artworks around the city for the citizens to find.
Inventor Agents
On November theatre students of the Turku Arts Academy tackle the challenges of public spaces using art. Perhaps an unlighted alley is illuminated using streetlight distribution points on wheels at its both ends, or a lack of pedestrian crossing solved by sewing up a pile of striped spare crossings?
