Okay so today Jess and I had our first meeting. So it's official. We've had the thumbs up from our tutor, the thumbs up from external examiners and we've both agreed that we want to do this. A collaboration on our FMP (final major project). I think it's time to get started. :)
Meeting One.
The first thing that we had to do was to decide on the base of our project. We sat down and had look at the list of words that all the students had contributed towards, to spark off ideas for projects. We started by eliminating words that we definatly didn't want to use. Finding this difficult, we switched and started to point out which ones we thought would be best to use. Still unsuccessfull we discussed what aspects we definatly wanted our collection to have.
Emily - Experimental, experimenting with multipul colours in print.
Jess - Use of materials, not just fabrics.
Emily and Jess - Innovative, main focus pieces and then more wearable pieces.
NO GIRLY NESS!!!
From there we start talking about any ideas that we already had for projects and what we enjoyed doing most.
Jess suggested addictions, looking at smoking and actually using cigarettes and burning. She also said that she enjoyed corsetry, which reminded me of an idea I'd had of contrasting restrictions with freedom.
Interested by this we brainstormed and got the following.
Freedom.
- expression
-room/space
Restrictions.
- following a path/streets
-Health and safety
-Laws
-Stories about Zimbabwe in newspapers
-Disabilities
-Age
-Home life
-Straight jackets/ Insanity
-Religion
With the obvious choice of words staring us in the face we decided to go with Restrictions, as our project title as it is open to endless possibilities. JOY for such enthusiatic designers like ourselves. ;)
And lastly we threw around some ideas of gathering research, by photographing everyday restrictions and interviewing people who have felt restricted. Still need to dig around for exhibitions and designers though.
I see beauty at the end of this.
I really do.
-Emily. (:
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