Concept

I have been struggling this past week with my ideas but today I finally came up with a concept I can focus on. I feel as though I have been just looking at urban influences as a whole and architecture in general with no direction thus leaving me feel uninsured and unable to create a good body of work. So after more research  I have decided to look at how buildings are made and the labour behind the outcome. I have started looking at building sites and scaffolding closely. These are seen as eye sores and a nuisance but they are necessary for the outcome of great architecture. I have gone around taking pictures of building sites looking at the details close up. Im concentrating in the lines and shapes i can see but also at the little details and objects i have found there. I feel a lot better about my work now I have a clear idea of how to take my project forward. Here are a few of my own photographs.

Unit X Concept Brainstorm.

After we all presented our posters and concepts we talked through them as a group, we brainstormed our favourite which was the idea of culture. We began to look at culture closer to home, Manchester is a very large city with numerous mini communities and religions.  There is also a lot of history in the city with a lot of business and industry. With a large city comes a lot of poverty, since moving from Cardiff to Manchester, a major thing I noticed was the amount of homeless people living rough on the streets. The idea of talking to the homeless and filming them and their story was thrown into the mix but after further discussion we decided that this idea was too closed and also very risky. We wanted an idea that was open and we could create numerous outcomes from. We were also finding it hard to relate the homeless idea back to the number 175.
We are going to go home tonight and think more thoroughly about ideas and come back to brainstorm them with the group tomorrow.

City Details.

To kick start my project, I decided to go on my own journey so I walked to the centre of Manchester recording details that interested me en route. I recorded this journey using a mixture of photographs and drawings. I decided to be expressive in my drawing using a wide range of materials.