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Use PLAYFUL CREATIVITY to explore progressive social, political and environmental perspectives.
PARTICIPATE in an experimental community arts project of global proportions.
DISCOVER the fictional Island of Fafifi, it's world famous Museum and the Airline that takes you there.
NEWS and UPDATES
17th APRIL, 2025 (Update by Rose)
12 PEOPLE COLLABORATE ON BEAUTIFUL ART-MAKING
On the 11th April, 2025, twelve local people attended the Playful Creative workshop held at the Newlands Neighbourhood House. The youngest attendee was only a few months old and the oldest was 66yrs. They experimented with mono-printing techniques with gel plates to make finished pieces, or to use as backgrounds for further mixed medial layers as seen in the image above. This type of art-making is really fun and everyone enjoyed themselves - making pieces for upcoming exhibition, pieces for other collaborators to add to later, and some were just so lovely - they had to be taken home!
RE-STARTING WORK ON THE 3D ISLAND OF FAFIFI
Rose has had to do a complete change of Linux operating system to Ubuntu and reinstall and test X-Plane 12 in order to get comfortable with re-starting work on the 3D model of the Island of Fafifi (to become a custom scenery addon in X-Plane 12). This setup seems much more robust and manageable now that Rose has their graphics tablet configured and discovered how useful ChatGPT can be in solving complex issues and answering technical questions. See the Building Fafifi in X-Plane page for more details of research and development pathways.
24th MARCH, 2025 (Update by Rose)
OPEN STUDIO LAUNCHED @ NECCHI
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Last week, Claire and Rose put a lot of effort into setting up and launching the OPEN STUDIO (first phase) of the Not A Cupboard installation at the Newlands Neighbourhood House. -
Already someone has made a brown-paper box lid with motifs for the upcoming exhibition (see it sitting on top of the little drawers in the photo above). Here's a link to more about Not_a_Cupboard.
GOOD PROGRESS ON THE SCHOOL OF AVIATION
Rose had been doing a lot of research on learning to fly the C172 in XP12 with help from Ryan, and while doing so starting up Learning Modules for the "Virtual Aviation for Serious Funsters" course. Check out the progress at our School of Aviation.
MARCH, 2025 (Update by Ryan)
A NEW PLANE
Fly Air Fafifi now operates Boeing 737s! We have started ops with the 737-800 with a 737 registered as FI-738. We have been doing flying round the Society Islands and Australia. More info is coming, we have some more info coming to the wiki and Discord coming soon, and some more pictures are on their way. Many other additions to our fleet are coming and improvements.
MARCH, 2025 (Update by Unty Rose)
Work continues preparing the NOT A CUPBOARD installation for the Open Studio phase at the NECCHI Newlands Neighbourhood House.Check out that project's page for full details here. Progress is also being made in the CREATIVE FLIGHT SIMULATION area with Ryan taking a lead in developing a Virtual Airline, collaborating on the MOMA Story world and Air Fafifi making liveries for the X-Plane flight simulator. Rose has also been making a lot of visual art pieces in preparation for the NOT A CUPBOARD "Open Studio" launch.
JANUARY, 2025
(Update by Rose)
2024 was a big year for the wikimoma project which has been in development and evolution for 4 yrs now - 2024 was the year that marked ongoing community participation in real life with events at Catalyst Social Centre and Newlands NECCHI. Also, the Discord server started rocking with the input of our first online collaborator in the Virtual Aviation 4 Serious Funsters portal - Ryan!
PLAYFUL CREATIVE
Although the Playful Creative events have been a great success, unfortunately I no longer have the capacity to run them as a monthly event. I hope that we can run occasional Playful Creatives from time to time at a variety of venues and look forward to talking with participants who would be able to help set them up and run them with me. There are other projects that people can participate in too.
NOT A CUPBOARD
This is a pop-up gallery of ours that is being developed in place at Newlands NECCHI instead of The Basement (which was considered unsafe). See December update below for more info on this.
THE SHARE CHAIR
The Share Chair is almost ready to roll out, it just needs a small crew to get excited about it and take it somewhere.
December, 2024
Update by: Rose
Quite a lot has been going on at WikiMoma since the last update about 3 weeks ago.
Ryan becomes a Wiki administrator
Ryan (User:Birbsayshennlo) has shown a lot of commitment to the WikiMoma project and has done a great job of tidying up our Discord Server so it made sense to make him an admin of the Wiki too. Really appreciate your passionate input Ryan - congratulations on your new role!
Building the Island of Fafifi has begun
Building the Island of Fafifi has begun in the digital realm. Ryan & I usually fly together in X-Plane every couple of days, and we've been adding in more production time to our online meet-ups in Discord. Ryan has been making Air Fafifi liveries for our planes the Cessna 172 and the Airbus A321 XLR, as well as starting to build a 3-D model of the Air Fafifi School of Aviation building, which will be placed on the Island of Fafifi once it has been built. All of this has inspired me to "bite the bullet" and begin the long slow process (and steep learning curve) of developing the Island as a custom scenery mod for X-Plane. See Building Fafifi in X-Plane for more details.
Character Booklets and more for the Flight Mode game
I have been documenting the developments in the Flight Mode game on its Wiki page here. We game-tested it at the last Playful Creative and there were 11 people around the table ranging from 8-80 years in age. Everyone had a really good time, even though progress through the Game Board was slow because there were so many players. Many smiles and lots of creativity!
I had originally conceived Flight Mode as a "race the clock" game, but that idea has now gone because players really enjoyed deep immersion and co-operative interaction that going slower allowed to blossom.
I have also designed and printed out draft Character Booklets to be tested at the next Playful Creative event on 15th Dec @ NECCHI Newlands Neighbourhood House.
A new Pop-up Gallery at Newlands NECCHI
At the first Playful Creative event held at NECCHI Newlands Neighbourhood House, Rose brought a trolley they had built for their studio. The idea was that it could be improved and turned into a MOMA II pop-up gallery called The Basement (because it looked very grungy/back of house). Peta started working on it, and it stayed at the Neighbourhood House for some months displaying the art that participants had made in the Playful Creative event. However, some parents were concerned that young children might climb upon it and it could fall on them - it was after all top heavy. Discussions with the Neighbourhood House staff resulted in them offering an under-used cupboard which is in the main corridor of the building and serves as a community art gallery. So Not a Cupboard was born.
Work has just begun on turning this furniture into a museum, but it will be exciting to see it grow and wonderful that MOMA as a home in a safe community space!
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A unique & ambitious Project
This wiki is the online home of the WikiMoma community arts project.
The project enables participants to experiment & explore their own creativity within a speculative fiction narrative.
It has been designed to be broad in scope and allow anyone to find a place regardless of there skill level,
or creative interests. WikiMoma aims to be as inclusive & as accessible as possible.
For a detailed description of the project, please see the About the Project page.
So what about Game Theory?
In regards to integrating game-making and playing into community arts practice, let's take a look at Game Theory. This video is super informative and inspirational. Interestingly, game theory computer models have shown that small islands of positivity spread and win over time :-)
Easter Egg not Easter Island
Work has begun on The Peopling of Fafifi ... the story of how a new society evolved on an island in the South Pacific. (co-ordinates 24°59'60.0"S 159°59'60.0"E).