We were told that the focus of this project was purely on how to research, but that doesn't give me much to work from. At the start of the project i began mind mapping and i came up with about a million ideas. Literally anything i could link to the project i could then find a path of development for, which in a sense is great but also insanely unhelpful when trying to decide what to actually do.
I started out thinking about photography, as it's something that i've recently become interested in but don't really know much about. I've always been too scared to do anything more than normal digital photographs without some sort of help or at least some basic knowledge. I thought that since Lcc has a photography department this could be the perfect time to start experimenting and learning the skill. Then we were told no final ideas, which screwed my plan up a tiny bit.
I started thinking of other possible things, while continuing with the research Stephen set:
- Victorian Life
- Chimeras/ mythical beasts
- explorer and the new world
- Carl Linnaeus
- Frederick John Horniman
- Charles Darwin
- Natural Sciences (e.g. Zoology, Astronomy, Botany, Vulcanology)
- Early/Old museums
- Taxonomy
- The Psychology of collecting
These were quite helpful as they gave me somewhere to go that stopped me looking for a final idea, but bu the time i'd researched a few of them i started thinking about the project slightly differently and i couldn't seem to relate my original ideas anymore. By the time it came to one to one's i was totally lost, and being the indecisive person that i am i couldn't decide how to go about becoming focused.
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