First Group Discussion
Monday 5th February 2018
This week we were allocated into groups, made up of 2 March and 2 BA students, we came together in these groups to discuss our ideas and interpretations. The core of the discussion was establishing a ‘site’ to focus on and start to think about how we will be presenting our ideas in the form of a publication.
Site
- The Forgotten spaces of Birmingham
- Historic importance of the site (imagery, maps, myths, people, local knowledge etc.)
- Locations from the walk, broken down into 8 key locations/ destinations:
- New Street/ Grand Central
- Paradise Circus / Library
- Bullring/ St Martin’s Church
- Millennium Point/ Curzon Street Station
- St Paul’s Square/ Jewellery Quarter/ Gun Quarter
- China Town/ Gay Quarter
- Digbeth
- Pigeon Park’ – a.k.a. St Philip’s Cathedral
Approach
- Fake news/ urban myths
- Blending true and false images/info of Birmingham to fill in gaps in historic info
- Portraying Birmingham better than reality
- Brummie/ Black country accent used descriptively
- Local names/ interpretation
Presentation/ publication
- Translated text. Plain English/ Black Country
- Layering information/ images to represent their chronological order
- Using images from different cities, but describing Birmingham
- Positive portrayal of Birmingham showing aspects we are proud of and changing/ falsely interpreting aspects we are not (hyperreality)
We have now se up several communication streams to aid us in our group work. These include: WhatsApp for communication, Pinterest board to record images, Facebook to post links and other information, OneDrive to save/ share group documents and files. We have agreed to meet prior to the next session to run through a PowerPoint we will be putting together remotely, this will be presented to the rest of the CoLab group next week.
Minutes by Dan Gibbons
Group 3 – Jack, Holly, Dan, Ningjing
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