We organised a group meeting for the first day back after the Easter holidays, in order to discuss our individual research from the past three weeks before tomorrow's tutorial. It was nice to see everybody's' different responses to research- thinkers and makers combined- and to discuss how we could now begin to translate our research into physical work.
COLLABORATION: all have our own individual approaches towards one concept.
MANIFESTO: we thought that it would be nice to revise the manifesto workshop, and create our own manifesto for our design festival. Although we think it's nice for us all to contribute, I am interested in writing the manifesto, as is Aine so we shall do this together at a later date.
SIGNPOSTING: using stickers to promote the festival. graffiti. clean graffiti. looking at where design is already apparent.
VIEWING THE CITY: different approaches to 'viewing' the city. spoke about mirrors, filters for cameras, videos. looking up and down.
SOCIAL MEDIA: nowadays everybody uses social media, there's no running away from it. creating a twitter/ instagram feed for our festival means that people that are unable to take part in the festival, they could contribute via social media.
ACCESSIBILITY: the design festival should be accessible to all. As it is regarding Manchester, it doesn't mean that the festival should be restricted to those that live here.
After the meeting I was feeling slightly deflated, mostly because of taking in so much information in a short space of time. Now that we've had the meeting, I don't feel as though I can get on with any work until we've been to Federation House and had a tutorial with our tutors. I am looking forward to seeing the space that we will be working in for the next couple of the weeks, however it's annoying that we will be away from the comfort of our studio, and the embroidery workshops...