COP Task - Political Hats

Considering the main themes of COP, writing out lists of words that we associate with each theme initiated some interesting ideas. The interpretation of words in the room seemed to vary from literate to more abstract, revealing the breadth of inspiration that COP can offer to our practice. Working with the themes of culture and technology, my selected sub-themes were travel and robots. Immediately, the idea of travelling robots seemed to stray from the more broader ideas that many others had encountered such as nurture and dependence, or modern experience. Yet responding to this theme provided a great path for humorous image making.






















Responding to the theme of 'travelling robots', I began to consider daft situations in which a robot would uncommonly be, working with humour. Refining this then to draw a series of skateboarding robots demonstrated the extent to which a contextual discussion can be stretched to host an idea. These images seem to open up a potential narrative and foster a concept that I may not otherwise have considered. Referring to context of practice then, it seems a consideration and study of contextual themes can not only support a broader understanding of subject matter, but initiate new concepts too.