As you likely already know, Kingston University’s annual creative anthology, RiPPLE, is once again open for submissions. But this year we’re doing things a little differently. One of the key differences is that the entire anthology will be subject to this overarching theme:
Changing Rooms.
This theme was conceived in collaboration with Robin Hutchinson. Robin is the director of The Community Brain, a local, community organization with whom RiPPLE is extremely excited to be partnering this year. The theme speaks to The Community Brain’s initiative (one of many!) to reimagine the changing rooms at the historic King George’s Playing Fields in Tolworth. The goal of the initiative is to turn the rundown location into a community space and give the town something they can really feel proud of.
The idea of transforming and transformative spaces, I believe, is inherent in the phrase ‘changing rooms.’ Pushing the boundaries of what we can possibly imagine a space to be, as Robin is proposing with the facilities at King George’s, is a concept that resonates especially deeply with me.
If we can imagine the possibilities of a space, we can imagine the occurrences that may transpire there and the people those occurrences may include. Imagining the possibilities of a space is a gateway to imagining the possibilities of all the things around us and, further, the complex depth of the people around us. And if we can imagine the complexity of others, the possibilities of what we can create together are endless.
At its heart, this is what changing rooms means to me: Imagining the possibility of what can happen in between moving from one room to the next. It asks us to consider how each room we’ve walked through influences how we encounter the next room. And when we take everything we’ve held on to from our various rooms, and put them together with everything everyone else has held onto from their various rooms, what kind of magic can we create together?
It is in this spirit that I now invite you to create, and to bestow upon us the honour of sharing in that creation with you. What does changing rooms mean to you? The possibilities are endless.
Yours Sincerely,
Paige J Mader
Managing Editor,
RiPPLE Anthology, 2020
Leave a comment to let us know how the theme changing rooms resonates with you, and don't forget to share your creative interpretation with us by SUBMITTING to the 2020 RiPPLE anthology!
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