Thursday, 25 April 2013

End of Week 4


Identifying team roles and project proposals
-          What happened during the ‘Team Roles’ exercises? What did you discover about yourself and your team members? What role have you adopted within your team and why?

-          What were your initial project thoughts? Which aspects of your Hulme research has the team decided to respond to, and why? What project proposal(s) have you come up with?

-          How are you responding creatively to your research findings? What are you doing practically in relation to your starting points? What action plans have you formulated as a team? What do you plan to do next?


We haven’t actually given eachother roles within the group. We have just decided on us all doing our own thing under the same title, ‘Harvesting Fragment’s from Hulme’. So we are looking at different areas within Hulme and collecting information about our chosen spots. We went round in circles at the start trying to decide on an idea, but we couldn’t settle on one idea to work on together, so this is why we are doing our own areas. With this we are gathering information from different time periods and reinterpret the information in our won way through sound, images and objects. For my own work I am photographing the social housing. To see the difference in people living in the social housing, how they interpret their own environment and use the space around them. Even though they are a community they use their personal space in a different way, some more exciting than others.
I have found out from visiting the social housing and finding information about them, that there is a community and a mix of cultures and people, such as Punks, Rasta’s and Hippies. So I am trying to capture the balconies to see if there are hints of the cultures coming out. Plans of action we have devised are that we work separately on our own in our chosen areas, then bring them all together at the end as a group of work, not just one final piece. Next I plan to edit my images captured and look more into the social housing.