I may well use this project for S&O A2. As such I am recording some of the ideas which inform my thinking behind the images I hope to make. The video below is a good summation of some of the questions I hope to ask through this work. The words I have added here are from the Notes section on my phone where I store thoughts and ideas as I have them. I suspect as I shoot other related themes will emerge, although I am minded to keep things straightforward/clear, always a challenge. Nevertheless, a theme which represents itself again and again to me in the sketch-type photos I take is the imagery of women which we are faced with as we wander the streets.
Notes:
“At a time when the concept of reality is questioned at every level a new generation will self educate themselves via the network that connects them. This work prompts questions about some of the assumptions we have about education. What economic structures do our educational patterns address and are they still relevant today? As we transition away from hierarchy, how should we foster advantageous behaviour in future generations? Does education in the UK in particular require a rethink? How will the younger generation, networked, self educated via an internet that isn’t always reliable or trustworthy, best be served by the institutions that dominate our society? OH is accessed by a wide variety of people from across the social divide. I chose to work with Honor because of the way her family have educated her and her siblings, and the contrast between that and the Victorian academic (batch) ideology which still informs the way schools are run today.
Skills – Creativity/human interaction – key future skills that for now might be safe from automation
Most importantly, what the future needs are ideas that are prepared to blow apart old redundant structures; highly imaginative, brave ideas
OH genesis at Keebler House – an educational embodiment of hierarchy, at height of Victorian revolution where batch education model emerged, and was necessary then, but perhaps no longer.”