Research Project of Joe Dumit : Bestiary of Living Scores. How do we consciously or intentionally enter, play with, and enjoy jams? When one of us loses the immediacy of presence within the space or has isolated ourself, what are the specific practices that help us become present, ground ourselves, lose ourselves, stop thinking, stop stopping, begin again? By sharing these personal techniques, we can inspire others to try them on. These are "Ways of knowing what to do when you don't know what to do." The idea of this project is to find ways to collect, record and share the wide variety of individual approaches we have all developed to be in jams (sometimes thinking we are the only ones who feel a certain way). We will use some of the teachers' meeting to figure out what is useful, non-intrusive, and easily accomplished. These ways might include mini-interviews (1-5 minutes, at set locations or "islands" at the edge of some jams or outside during meals), self-recording booths (with prompt cards), a research board (with post-it notes to share experiences), sharing circles (after lunch at a tree, for group discussion), etc. I am also setting up a website with a form for sending responses. for now: http://dumit.net/bestiary