Play board game! Working title: Asylum.

The walks and our mapping exercises started coming together in a form of a board game - working title: Asylum. In the game you are making your way from the Home Office (the starting point, the moment of arrival) through various locations (Central Library, police station, All Saints Red Cross, Friendship House, ASDA, the beach) to reach the Home Office again (this time to receive your British Passport).

The game is still in the making so bear with us while we continue working on it!

We have already started talking about launching the game as a commercial product, although we all agreed that there is not much fun in playing the game live - 24/7.

Asylum counters - made out of pictures of us all.

Jinnie, Karim and Ania discuss the game rules.

Saadia - our first winner!

The first trip out

Armed with cameras we set off for our first walk from Friendship House. The weather was great, the spirits were high - we decided to go to the sea.

The pink cameras and ice-ceam combined with the foreign accents made us look like tourists not asylum seekers.

Saadia found a spot by the sea where she would like to see a statue of liberty - dedicated to all people who were forced to leave their country and uncertain of their next day.

Going out! (prep)

We spent all winter Friday afternoons (and quite a few of cold spring ones too!) inside the Friendship House. Nearly all this time has been spent on making work that will enter gallery spaces and galleries are not necessarily easy to access for everybody. White gallery spaces can be intimidating - some people commented that they are not sure if they can simply enter them as they are. Maybe tie is required? Maybe you need to know something about what you are about to see inside to be able to enter. Crossing the threshold of the unfamiliar space even if it has large sign 'free' on it is not always easy.

People we are working with live their life in the city - move around it on foot or by bus. It makes sense to me to create with them work that can be put back in the environment their access, they are part of - and look for ways to leave their mark on it.

Seeing a couple of elderly ladies watching the film on BBC Big Screen made an incredible impression on me - they were watching intensely a series of faces talking to them. I hope they realised that the faces belong to the people who cross the same square, who shop in the same shops and stand in the same queues.

We started mapping people's journeys around the city, we started searching for spaces where the routes of two or more of us cross, we carefully watch spaces we like visiting but also must visit. Not sure where this is going to take us just yet, but I think we are searching for shared locus.

Films are still on BIG SCREEN in Portsmouth!