To start the project Unit X off, everyone from Fashion, Textiles in Practice and Film & Media have been split up into 4 groups; play, record, revolt and perform. Within these groups we have been divided into smaller groups of 8. The idea of this project is to work together as a team in order to create an output that will be exhibited at the end of the unit.
During the launch lecture everyone was given the same starting point for their project, which was the number 175. This number was chosen because this year Manchester School of Art celebrates it's 175th anniversary.
Having a number to base a whole project around originally seemed quite strange, but after a few ideas had been presented such as finding out what items cost £1.75, or what weighs 175lb I realised that having a number as the starting point for the project isn't as restricting as I first thought.
We were asked to find out 3 facts surrounding the number 175, and present them to the rest of our group. The facts that I found out were that:
-Flight 175 was involved in the 9/11 Al-Qaeda Hijack
-175 years ago in 1838 John Wilkes Booth was born, he was the man who assassinated Abraham Lincoln
-175 years ago in 1838 Oliver Twist, written by Richard Bentley was published
I felt that my facts were fairly morbid and dull, but after discussing what our project should be about with the rest of the group, we came to the conclusion that we should focus on the 175th day of the year, which is the 24th June. I think this is a really good idea because it is a really open ended topic and there are so many different directions this project can go. We have also decided to call out group 'June' because it directly relates to the topic we have chosen. Our next task is to create a poster about the ideas we have come up with and present them next week.
