I dived into the atmosphere of the San Miniato laboratory in the second half of the period but, due to the preparation and mutual thinking with the Erasmus + research team beforehands, I felt like I am welcomed home by all the warm hearted people that this bizlikesounding [businesslike-sounding] topic brought together. This group is most obviously interested in creating soil for ideas to grow in the heads and hearts of their students, their colleagues, themselves or shortly said: in all of us as professionals, students, reseachers in our fields. 

On my first day I joined a workshop that was encouraging playfulness, as well as cocreating, to the point of being able to leave your own creation to the further development of others, curated by Charlotte Østergaard. 

This playfulness could be felt all over this special place and in this group of interesting people with strong artistic qualities from all over Europe. An atmosphere like this is quite unique and not necessarily likely among artists, being they strong characters and searching their own ways in their studies. 

The mutual exchange was immense as well as the joy to figure out the ways in which people from other countries, backgrounds, traditions would work like. 

As well as the other researchers I prepared a few workshop offers and when it came to the daily meeting to create the timetable we decided to create together everyday with everyone participating in the laboratory, I had to pitch my offer and I felt excited- Would people think would it be worth spending their time? I was lucky. A big bunch of people from all over Europe came and joined me. 

We would encourage each other in a little ritual in the beginning of the sessions and then reflect on our artistic statements, together draw a huge grand masterplan of life, as well as putting down in our secret books the three things that hold us back most.