Activities/Exploration Concept/Project ID RECONNAISSANCE & REALITY Brief: An escape is a transition to a new state or space, a momentary swerve from the everyday. engage in your environment in new and interesting ways - observing, testing, and defining opportunities for escape. Escape exists as a construct that removes a person or group from one particular state or place to identify my escape. what am I escaping from? another. this state can be both physical or psychological. We are asked to identify an opportunity or desire to create an escape. There was a time during covid when I’m doing remote study in Taiwan, I can’t really travel to England to have the full experience of uni. Although we had group projects and I made several friends by in front of the screen, I feel like these friends are temporary because they are gonna find cooler people in reality, face to face, before I even come here to study. Sometimes I feel like there is an invisible societal convention here, and I actually Photograph something/be furtive: I’m scared of missing out on just being crazy feel quite threatened when seeing people found a cat hiding in bushes at campus and going out on a Friday or Saturday night. put so much effort into what they wear, or even look “Goldsmiths” when just wearing Hide and merge in the background: during this Take a trip using unusual mode of As for myself, I enjoy playing piano, video a sweater. I always feel odd, underdressed exercise, me and my friend took each other’s transport. Go North: I just came to games, and movies...so it’s not like I can’t and a little out-of-place, like I never truly picture of hiding and becoming one of some- london and the transpotation Im most have fun by myself. I’m just afraid of ending belong to a certain genre of fits. I’ve seen thing. We both wear dark and can’t really been familiar with is the bus, however I took up alone like before with everyone else hav- lots of creative types with some pretty out- seen, and it was a cool experience. underground to expeirence something ing made some great friends. landish wardrobes at the campus, and it different. Now looking back at it the really gives me a lot of a leftist, hipster-ish, transpotation I used every day becomes What’s “so Goldsmiths” artsy (art-school-kids) vibe here. mainly underground/DLR “I thought if I went to Goldsmiths I’d start Therefore, I started to observe people and drinking Glen’s vodka/cider/pints, watch- hoping to be like them, be like one of the ing rugby, start saying ‘bloody’, reading the whole community. The first thing comes Daily Mail, buying vinyl records and clothes to my mind is outfit, since it is something in charity shops, and getting involved with that left you the first impression of a per- some radical political subjects to defend my son. If I look like one of them, I would be nation or identity, “ 75% successful to achieve the goal. Just like everyone else! Looking closely into the stylistic decisions “HUMAN IS ULTRA SOCIAL ANIMAL” of people here at goldsmiths, I collect To understand goldsmiths students, I start to document and study people’s outfits. but the truth is-- soon I figured out that I people’s picture of their style and clothes, Firstly, I try to be sneaky and hide to document but found that it doesn’t work well, and there is a risk wasn’t cool enough for the atmosphere and create a catalog of general “freshman that if people see me, they might get triggered. Become someone else: me and my ICL mate merge in my desperately trying to discover fashion” friends from KCL and sneak into library without getting there. I don’t want to spark any political dis- Then I found that although the outfits are different, they share the very similar visual codes to each noticed, and it actually worked. It is a day to experience KCL cussion, and I’m just trying to find a comfy starter pack. other. I found that peop- le often feel unique about themselves, but everyone ends up being the same. students’ life spot for me to stand. If I want to have a little escape from be- Group Dynamics theory by Kurt Lewin suggests that the way how people interact and behave is Watch escape movie: Drowning love. It is about one teen idol Natsume in Tokyo who has to give up on ing judged about not being Goldsmiths affected by each member’s internal thoughts and mindsets. (Tasca, 2020) Human beings are social her career who moves to her father’s hometown in of Ukigumo as her parents have decided to aid her ail- enough, I can look at it as a reference and animals. ing grandfather in the small town. Soon she meets Koi who is a young heir of an influential family. They adapting people’s outfits here and hiding Group members often take their cue of how to behave from other group members or leaders, thus are both shining figures among the peers in same age. However, they encountered a terrible incident and in the crowds. they would get convin- ced it’s righteous and best to do what everyone else does, even when it is affect their lives. They are no longer liked by their peer and everything is depraved but there is no time Pros and Cons I listed out after for our characters to deal with the trauma they’re put through. They decided to escape from it. Near the doing activities and brainstorming questionable. end of the story, ou and Kana killed the rapist for harming Natsume. The three decide to keep it a secret It is hard for people to stay unique when our taste and sense of fashion and everything of us all get so as to avoid the past affecting her future career. (escapism) Kou felt guilty as he couldn’t protect his influenced and affected by the community woman and thus thought he doesn’t deserve her. Main characters are all escaping from this incident.
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