During this lecture we were given the brief that we are working on for the next couple of months.
Brief: Together in your collaborative teams, you will assume the role of 'urban archaeologists', and practise based researchers in order to interrogate Hulme. Searching for information about the area you will investigate life in Hulme, past (it's history, it's buildings, it's stories...), present (it's communities, it's places, it's events...) and future (What's next in Hulme's story? What might happen in the future?) A series of talks, walks, visits, activities and film screenings will introduce you to many aspects of the area that you may be unaware of. You may use these (or your own discoveries) as starting points for further investigation, deciding as a group what research you wish to creatively, respond to and how you will go about it.
At first I was a little disappointed by the brief and couldn't understand how I was supposed to find inspiration from Hulme, as at the time I thought it was a very uninteresting place. Since then I have begun to discover things about Hulme that I was unaware of and I am excited to start the project!
After informing us of the brief, each of the tutors from the three areas (Photography/Film Making/3D design) showed us various practitioners to inspire us and give us an initial starting point. I made note of the artists who I was most interested in, pictured below.
After the introduction to the Hulme project, we were put in our groups. I am really happy with my group, I think we will work well together and learn a lot from each other. The group consists of me and Natalie (Photography), Maddy and Jack (Film Making) and Kat (3D Design). I am confident that we will create an interesting final piece and an overall thorough project.
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