Mondays class

For those who missed last class, here's a brief recap:

The class was given 45 minutes in which to prepare their topic for presentation. In this time Marianne spoke to us in which we discussed our problem and the comments Bill made to us last week. She basically then said that our original concept was a good one and that she really liked it despite Bill's comments against it. She also said that the project doesn't have to be quite as experimental as we thought it had to be and can be done simply as a presentation within the class room setting. She therefore suggested we aim to do it within the class room setting and gave suggestions as to how to make it more interactive such as the use of pop-out posters and interactive projections as suggested by Arthur.

The group therefore decided to stick with the Undergarden idea and recreate the concept in the classroom for the presentation. During our time presenting Annabelle suggested we develop an emergency kit to hand out containing the 'basics' you would need for living underground as well as consider how you convey/recreate the feeling of living underground to the class such as the darkness, being cold etc. Bill after much debate suggested we provide an introductory scene/explanation in which explain why we would have moved underground to live and based this around research on climate change (so for eg we could say because climate change predicts temperature to rise in certain areas, we develop this based on concept that London's surface has heated up so much that is unbearable to live on and thus Britain has retreated underground).

It was also emphasised to the class in general that we have test runs of whatever it is we're doing before the day of the presentations. Also that during lecture times everyone should bring work with them to work within that time period so no one should be leaving before the class is done.

Among ourselves we also decided that our message should be something like:
Creating a glimpse into the future depicting a dreadful and uncomfortable future so that it motivates us to act now to prevent this happening and preserve our way of life.
Of course this needs to be tidied up and made to sound more catchy and a slogan around this needs to be developed to put on posters etc.

A suggestion was also made to hand out packets of seeds designed like oyster cards.

We also decided to meet on Thursday at 12:00pm in order to discuss what we would like to include the presentation, what kind of layout we should follow, how interactive are we going to make it etc. We therefore decided that by the end of this meeting we should know exactly what we're doing and have assigned individual work to everyone.

I therefore would really like to appeal to everyone to come to this meeting and participate so that we can effectively get things done. I personally do not feel comfortable assigning work to someone who isn't present at the meeting especially if they haven't turned up to numerous meetings. So please all make a special effort to attend.

As usual I would appreciate any comments and feedback.

Cheers
Lynda