The Four Building Blocks.

Change the jokes - but some things stay the same! The four building blocks are critical. Mainspring, the Clockwork script, has four basic building blocks, four aims, four raison' de sultanas. These are the foundation stones of the program and they relate to the four acts of the play. Clockwork urges you to localise the program to meet your own needs and realities. However, to stay true to the Clockwork idea, you need to maintain these four building blocks. We call them the parameters of Clockwork. They are ...

1.Stop this is urgent! The loss of biological diversity is arguably the most pressing of environmental issues. It is just so urgent. We can reduce greenhouse gases, we can repair the ozone layer, we can clean up the water but we can never, ever bring back an extinct species. Never. This is the gist of Act One. 2. Meet an eco-community! Yes! Providing people with insight into diversity and inter-relationship, which are the essence of eco-community or habitat, is possibly the single most important ecological lesson we can impart. The best approach is to provide visitors with a beautiful experience of the essence of your site, or the lovely local open space you've chosen. This is a chance to enjoy nature, have some contact smell a bit, listen peer and ponder, wander and wonder. Have fun. 3. Hands On For Habitat! Noticing the connections forms is the basis of Act Two. Transform the audience into a Friends Group and then get 'em working! They'll love it. When history reviews this epoch, local-groups are most certainly going to be accorded with much merit for their grassroots, real world involvement in environmental healing. Clockwork gives people this "virtual experience of belonging to a local action group". Hands on for habitat is the true heart of Clockwork. Everybody is concerned about the "state of the environment". However, most people have little opportunity to be directly involved, notwithstanding the inspiring rates of participation in recycling and other conserver lifestyle practices. To actually handle the earth, tease the roots, put up the tree guard or what ever will provide participants with a powerful memory and nourishment to take their concern for habitat into other aspects of their lives. From there, Mainspring has other devices which help provide a clear take home message about conserver living, general lifestyle and personal responsibility.

4. Imagine the Future. Clockwork encourages the idea of learning from over 40,000 years of traditional Aboriginal culture and using that as a baseline to imagine a clean, green, sustainable future. The starting point is seeing the land in different ways. Is it just a commodity? Surely a sense of hope about tomorrow is a better foundation for change than the all too prevalent scorched earth image which too many people believe will be true? Surely?