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Group Two #1

This week we finalized our groups and met together to brainstorm ideas for our project. Unfortunately, since we weren’t able to meet as a full group we did not come up with a concrete plan. Instead we came up with three rough different ideas outlined below.Our goals for this next week are to meet with our fifth member to decide which direction to take, and outline a plan for our project. The first idea we had was to explore belonging through architecture within Chicago and Brno. Different spaces are physically built for different purposes, and consciously or not, are designed in ways that welcome some people while inhibiting others. Our second idea was to look at belonging through a colonial lens using a combination of found footage and footage shot by us. Brno has gone through many occupations, which we assume would have most likely shaped the identities of the people there, whereas in Chicago, we are the settlers, which has resulted in flattened and erased identities. Our third idea is a sort of combination of the two.

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