Design development up till now (with epilogue)

Currently having some troubles with image resolution on blogger ( it would be useful to show the north arrows at least) but will post the diagrams once this technical issue is solved.)

Brief summary of so-far development:

MORE | FOLK| LORE (more people/more ethnicity)

1) MICRO (the office) , MESO (the context) , MACRO (media). This trinity of cultural climates came from trying to find out what exactly the Finnish Institute does and where it happens. Some things I've been thinking about so far:
Finnish Institute - more as organization/activity, less as a certain place?
Could this organization gain/give benefits when given a sense of place?
What unexpected collaborations could occur in micro/meso environments and challenge the potential of macro environment?
What is the best place for such collaborations to occur, where do I find it in Newcastle Quayside?
How to get all three environments to be parts of the building for Finnish Institute (just as they are parts of Finnish Institute as organization)?

I think I have an answer for every single one of these questions by now. It might not be right, but it is my interpretation. I will see where this approach leads. On the other hand, when I write the questions down, I sometimes feel even more confused - even more questions come to my mind. We'll see where that one leads, as well.

• THE INCUBATOR. I came to a conclusion that media proves a great success for Finnish Institute as a 'field' for potential collaborations. I did not leave the macro cultural environment behind with my next task - The Incubator.Client: Culture Lab Radio. Interests: Radio as technical and social apparatus, collective experience in broadcasting, sharing (Finnish Myths and storytelling; recording of ethnic lullabies; other folklore)
  
• The idea lead to simultaneous research about: Community Radio: externalising a free word of: Ethnic minorities? Activist groups? Neighbourhood communities?; "Electronic Elsewheres" (ed. C.Berry, S.Kim, L.Spigel): the idea of "...places are conjured up, experienced, and in that sense produced through media"; Receiver/Transmitter: the place of energy accumulation (sauna?) and energy release (radio?) - the kernel of design is two counter-balancing spaces, both experienced collectively. I like the idea of collaborative effort to make the energy 'apparatus' work.
• This key idea leads to design quite quickly as I am 'dismantling' the brief into pieces and rearranging into clusters while continuously analysing the proposed site and a radio (almost literally - I got my first raido apparatus from a friend for dismantling!).

Other related things I'm currently interested (in no particular order, I like to write words down so they collaborate in my mind by themselves): Dismantling (taking in pieces? look up: New Brutalism, Parallel of Life and Art, A. and P. Smithsons, Paolozzi's Typewriter); TransmitterReceiver : the FEED spaces? Little distinction between outdoors/indoors. Outdoors also inhabited, inside people as tube coil around the kernel of the building - generating energy, activity visible - available for all to see, experience, take part of - real-life internet; dialogue/feed?; Human Right in Finland to have access to internet; Old/new - ethnicity/globalism. Ethnic media??Discovering new,old. Sharing. Learning.Popularizing folklore. Inclusiveness. Old/new - radio transmitter/internet. The visible/invisible mechanism. To make visible how collaboration occurs. Old/new - vernacular/modern. Brick, glass, black, wood, pitched roof, steel. Large opening, invisible facade

etc.? I'll come back to those diagrams.