The Guide focuses on public space and resources, proposing playful ways to live and thrive inspired by feral plant and animal life. Accidental Holiday looks at the area's potential for guerrilla gardening, communal composting, tree house dwelling and eating free food as research into the economic and infrastructural redevelopments taking place.

An accidental holiday is a day when your plans unexpectedly change leaving you with free unstructured time, an occasion when the world is full of interesting things and you are free to experience them.

For this guide I'm developing a methodology for collaborative meaning making on the political and social factors at play in a chosen locality. We move through the place integrating the physical with the intellectual engaging in unfamiliure tasks requiring lawless, deviant, childish behaviour. This results in deepening of engagement with the locality, one's own senses and other group members and provides insights that would be unatianable in a conference situation.

Key Elements
Introducing physical movement and creative interventions with, in , through, over boundaries and structures - physical, social, psychological to develop thinking and behaviour that is embodied and responsive treating obstacles as opportunities for creative engagement.
Contributions from diverse interested participants in the form of special skill, information relevant to the particular issues of the location, personal expereince related to topic of discussion.

Insights from the training sessions are presented in a map, a framework that contextualises the insights gained socially and politically.

presently applying this methodology in Berlin on the topics of risk and freedom of movement see GuideToRiskInBerlin and in North Greenwich on the topic of public green space.

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