During the mind-mapping session last week, we discussed with Alex Russel about looking at Manchester BEFORE the Industrial Revolution, in an effort to use material from the past to create future ideas. Here's a website which shows maps of the Manchester area before, during and after the Revolution!: http://manchester.publicprofiler.org/beta/index.php
Director of Studies in Design, Alan Holmes, gave a talk on the creative processes a designer takes to design fashion. It was quite an inspiring talk, delving in to the ideas of using resources, UP-cycling as opposed to RE-cycling, turning facts from the past in to future fiction, new ways of buying, sharing and borrowing clothes i.e clothes libraries, internet shopping, Oxfam & WasteSaver partnership and Amy Twigger Holroyd's "Keep & Share". Here are a few helpful websites and articles linking to these ideas of eco-friendly fashion:
http://www.goodlifer.com/2010/03/clothing-libraries-a-shift-from-wasteful-to-...
http://www.keepandshare.co.uk/index.html
https://www.oxfam.org.uk/donate/shops/wastesaver.html?cid=rdt_wastesaver
Re-cycling clothing can also be about helping others, too. As a modern community, we donate and support less-fortunate people more than ever: http://www.wear2bank.co.uk/
when asked to answer the questions 'what is it?, 'who cares?' and 'how are you going to do it?' I began to think about the idustrial revolutin something that linked well with my groups chosen vidio 'techno chic'. The clip discussed how advanced technology has become and how there is now a mchine to do almost anything for you. Discussing these subjects on a mind map brought up some interesting ideas. If you look back to when the revolution began, it was seen as a very posotive movement towards a more civilsed comuntity. It creatd jobs, machines were created that made manual work easier. Today the it seems the oposit is beginging to happen, because we are now so advanced it is cheeper to employ a mchine rather than a person or to have thing produced overseas, leading to unemployment. However a similarity can be found in the overpopultaion of our country, back when the reveolution first began people rushed to the city, chasing roumors of job opertunitys, leading to overpopultion. These problems combined lead to the well debatd issue of climate change.
I feel that through continuing relevent reaserch it would be benaficial and intersting to create an outcome that discussed these problems and make the public aware. As we should all care due to the impact it will one day have on us.
A great video showing the Spinning Mule being demonstrated which we viewed. Very big, very noisy and a lot of hard work. (not me filming, just found it on youtube!)
"Andrew Brooks is a photographer, digital artist and filmmaker"
Primarily talking about his work based in Manchester, in his talk, he revealed his "Hidden Manchester" project. Here is his websites and a few photographs from the collection. His visuals are very energetic and eventually we will need to be thinking digitally too!
