This is our first week of collaboration unit with MA CCC students. On February 12 I met all of our group members, Katie, Juli Basma from MA CCC, Neelabh, Manling and our tutor Georges.
During this week our group had a tutorial and two seminars, then we also did some readings to find out what we could apply to this project. But the language in the reading material is very abstract that sometimes I can’t really understand the meaning of it.
As this project is about the future of work, so first we need to find a In our second seminar, we discussed about what kind of work place that we really want to change. After that, we selected a site visit to a community center as it can gather people from different regions or ages together, and we decided to have a visit of different community centers of our neighborhood, then compare the differences between them.
We also watched a short film about solar punk, which inspired me to imagine a future that could be technological and close to nature. As a sci-fi aesthetic genre that has only emerged in the online world in the past decade, Tumblr posts and illustrations are the initial material elements for the formation of “solarpunk”. Vegetation, lighting, ecological architecture, sustainable agriculture, handicrafts, and aircraft gradually collage the world imagination of “Solar Punk”. Compared with aesthetic concepts such as steampunk and cyberpunk that have been fully integrated with popular culture, solarpunk still presents a more loose and organic growth state.