Yesterday we completed and presented our first group project, which I found very interesting, and feel we completed well. The project asked us to journey to a place that 'expands the envelope of our experience'. We were asked to create and temporarily inhabit a 'zone of discomfort' which was to be documented in video and other formats.
We were asked to consider the following:
Why does your zone exist?
Who uses it?
What purpose or purposes does it serve?
What makes it uncomfortable?
What is its history? What is its future?
What need does your zone answer which planned development does not address?
Could your zone be incorporated into official planning and policy - or is the idea of government policy being influenced by such contingent events in itself a contradiction in terms?
In our initial brainstorm we came up with the following thoughts and ideas:
Over the last few weeks we explored many areas of discomfort in great detail. As a group we identified our common discomfort zone to be “Religious Exploitation.” We believe this subject strongly satisfies the brief criteria.
We then asked the “consultants” (the full-time students) from diverse backgrounds, what their personal perspective on this particular subject was so that we could incorporate their feedback into our presentation.
We came up with the Church of Aspirology and decided to film ourselves talking to people in Leceister Square about our 'religion'.
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