Manifesto

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In a time when possessions are often mistaken for our expression, our character and our personality, we aim to explore the connections between the two worlds that seem totally unrelated through what objects they think are important to them. We will explore this theory through the deconstruction and research of said possessions in the hope of bringing two sub-cultures, two worlds, two-people closer together.

 

 

 

Target Audience

 

We decided to make our publication for young adults, our own generation, because the subject is something we ourselves need to know more about and feel we cannot relate to. We are part of a generation and nationality that has so much choice and ability to do more for others but still feel like we can’t when we witness a tragedy such as the refugee crisis. Factors that may contribute towards these feelings include; the lack of trust for charities, the view of charity starting at home, and the reduction of effort made by the public from technological and communication advances such as Facebook. To combat this our publication has purposefully chosen people like us to communicate our message through. Covertly, it explores the possessions we take for granted, the possessions we think are important and the possessions that are used in places and sub-groups we think are a world apart from us. Through the exploration of the similarities, we hope this educates our audience about how refugees are as characterful, as bright, as funny, as strong, as scared, as hurt, as human as we are.

 

 

Shoes

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To start the ball rolling in the research stages of the publication, we set out to interview as many different people as possible, with the same questions, in the hopes of creating a huge, useful pool of answers. Keeping it within the boundaries of our country.  The questions centred around the object you would take if you were a refugee about to flee your home to safety. We found from the answers that no one said simple things like ‘shoes’. This may be because they were already wearing them or they’re object may have been ID or medication, but we thought this was quite an important and overlooked possession.

We also found out from various sources from a Greek refugee camp that shoes were one of the most needed commodities. Jaime Lock, refugee camp volunteer, expressed how ‘the shoes would be bought in bulk and so the almost uniform-like shoes took away the personality, dignity and humanity from these people…shoes were often stolen, the wrong sizes and sewn together out of desperation’.

We want to deconstruct the materials, history and facts from this object and explore the uses within each world.

 

Tablet

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The tablet was a bit of an obscure object compared to the general topic of the shoes. This came about when interviewing the father of one of our creators. He chose to take his Samsung S galaxy tablet because he thought ‘it has everything he needed on it’. He ignored the obstacles of charging it. We thought this would be a useful inclusion in commenting on the comfort versus desperate division we have with a refugee camp. Practically and aesthetically the tablet would also be interesting when deconstructing and researching.

 

Design

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We felt that would should include a colour pallet that has been connected with refugees throughout this crisis’. This would either be light sandy colours or a collection of oceanic, nautical colours. We eventually went for the blues, greens and turquoises of the ocean as is offered more colour to play with for each artist.