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CHECK OUT THE NEW CPS INTERACTIVE WEBSITE AT complexpublicservice.com

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• Phase 1: May - December 2021

• Participatory Track: Weekly

• Deep Participants: 8

• Participation Style: primarily 1:1; occasional group configurations

Complex Public Service is an attempt to use an artistic practice, a festival and an art institute to open up an accessible way to be involved in both private-life and social-public conversation. The project uses a participatory approach to bring personal value and experience to the forefront, alongside critical discourse and action around futuring. With circular systems and empathy as curiosity starting points, this long term project will embark on a complex, multi-layered trajectory of participation and collaboration, where one can both meet themselves and think together.

Complex Public Service engages participants from Leeuwarden city public and from WTTV festival visitors in a process which challenges what a civil service could be. How can people be involved in the community they exist within, through joy, being and deep experience, shifting the focus from progress, integration skill-learning and cultural adaption. In July, the process will meet as a tangible moment at the festival through Empathy Village for open discourse, and will continue along, unfolding via a transparent participatory decision process.

Complex Public Service is a project by Katie Ceekay in collaboration with WTTV festival and kunst initiative VHDG.

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Empathy Village is a physical meeting moment of Complex Public Service, facilitated by a platform, shelters, a kitchen unit, places to sit, participants, collaborators and Katie. It assebles for the first time at Welcome to the Village Festival 2021.