LAUIL601 - COP WRITTEN PROPOSAL

LAUIL601 - ABBIE MOONEY
CONTEXT OF PRACTICE PROJECT PROPOSAL

RESEARCH INTENT  & PROTO-QUESTIONS

-To explore the relationship between industrial communities and visual heritage -To identify how industrial heritage is prevalent in contemporary creative communities -Use practical methodologies to identify the role of design and craft in the development of holistic identity in communities - Carry out primary and secondary research to find out how the current landscape of craft and design is influenced by heritage -Consider themes in light of craftivism and identity -To what extend are Britain’s working-class communities shaped by the legacy of their industries? -Industrial heritage and community identity: The place of craft in working class Britain

THEMES/ SUBJECTS/ PHENOMENA

-Social relationships with the people’s art -Pride and tradition, celebration of community identity - ‘Unsophisticated arts’ - NUM banners/ Durham miners gala - Craftivism and union placards/ DIY type/ signwriting -Transmission of union and social community through craft processes -RITUALS AND THE TRANSMISSION OF IDENTITY CRAFTIVISM/ HERITAGE/ CRAFTSMANSHIP/ HOLISTIC IDENTITY/ TRADITION

AUDIENCE/ CONTEXT

-Aim to shed light on heritage to those now living in these geographical communities -Directed towards families and older communities to instil pride and promotion of holistic identity -Intent to teach younger audiences of the heritage of the places around them -Inclusive and playful tone of voice to encourage positive promotion of identity and community spirit -POSITIVE PROMOTION OF CRAFT FOR SOCIAL COMMUNION TO MODERN COMMUNITIES

GOALS/ ACTION PLAN

-       To establish a distinction between craft for politics and craft for identity -       Broaden personal knowledge of social movements and aspects of heritage -       Clarify the line between protest craftivism and community craftivism -       Use practical processes to visual realise theoretical research in an attempt to explore craftivism as a promoter of heritage rather than a vehicle for protest -       EMPLOY THE VALUES CHARACTERISED BY THE CRAFTIVISM AND IDENTITY OF INDUSTRIAL COMMUNITIES TO GIVE MEANING AND IDENTITY TO A MODERN COMMUNITY

KEY QUOTES AND TEXTS

‘Heritage and Tourism in ‘The Global Village’ – BONIFACE & FOWLER ‘Heritage: Critical Approaches’ – HARRISON ‘In Loving Memory of Work’ – OLDHAM ‘The Place of Imagery in the Transmission of Culture’ – WRAY ‘Cultural Studies and the Working-Class’ – MUNT ~ ‘Heritage is something that suffuses us with pride rather than shame’ BOYM ‘The powerful rhetoric of inclusivity mobilized people’ MUNT ‘Heritage as a social process’ HARVEY

Additional Information -Clarify link between physical craft practice and industrial heritage -What is the relationship between community, craft, and heritage? -The politics of craft

POTENTIAL PRACTICAL EXPLORATIONS/ OUTCOMES

Content: -       Explore a celebration of heritage through analogue processes pioneered in British industry -       Consider re-appropriation of industrial traditions to suit a contemporary cultural landscape -       How can I use processes such as weaving and letterpress to promote holistic identity of modern communities? -       Colloquial language and dialect to capture essence of community I want to represent > what does it mean to be from an industrial town/ the north/ Yorkshire?

Outcomes: -       Propose a creative workshop or event celebrating industrial heritage through accessible contemporary craft and design -       Woven or screen-printed banner capturing the essence mining lodge banners but through a contemporary illustrative aesthetic -       Explore contemporary sign writing to visualise colloquial language of the community/ region -       Textiles/ fibre art to explore the processes of the industries central to the research, but with a modern approach -       Analogue and mechanical processes used to channel aesthetic qualities and physical processes of research context to establish playful and rich visual outcomes