End of week 1

Good work this week. I hope you have enjoyed your drifts and that in your groups you are beginning to explore the City more thoroughly – and differently.

We talked about Wilkie’s categorisations of site. Consider how your work will be specific to the site, rather than generic or sympathetic. How can you include specificity? We talked about being investigators, discoverers, researchers, consider the ways that you can do this for your ideas.

We talked about space. We talked about the difficulties of defining space, especially a space that we don’t know exists. When do you think a space is a place? What makes a space a place?

Mythogeography

Have a look at this work by Phil Smith and Siobhan McKeown, and consider it in connection with your own City Walks. Further parts of this work can be found on BB and on YouTube.

First task:

Come to class with some images of Lincoln. These need to be original images that you have taken, and can not be images from a website or other source.

Upload your images – with your name, and any comments to the blog.

Does your image tell a story?

What is interesting about your image?