As an important part of the brief, we were asked to work on a manifesto - what we as a group wanted to do, how and why. Paige and I wrote the manifesto working off of the information and ideas provided by the rest of the group.
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Our Manifesto:
A team of multicultural designers from various parts of two continents, we aim to preserve cultures by digitally recording their material elements, making them accessible to all and transforming them to be interactive to users. Using the various forms of design, we want to revive forgotten histories and record ones on the brink of extinction. Our goal is to depict them with factual accuracy and give the audience a well-rounded and fully developed visual identity of any given culture. We are committed to researching every element to the fullest degree and to allow our design process to be collaborative and open to a constant inflow of new information by the people of the cultures we are representing.
Our main goal is to be informative and educational, bringing old material cultures into the new world, using digital space as our medium. We primarily want to facilitate students of all ages as our audience. We will create a free and accessible platform that can be accessed globally via the internet, allowing students from any corner of the globe to research a visual culture that they might otherwise not have access to due to a multitude of financial and geographic constraints. Our agency’s work will break down these constraints and allow curious students complete freedom to find out new information about both familiar and unfamiliar cultures.
We choose to accept and adopt the past, the present and the future. Eventually, it is our goal to record as many visual cultures as possible but in the meantime, we will start by recording three definitive cultural spheres, the oriental ethnic mosaic of Chinese culture, the veiled world of Celtic cultures of Britain and Ireland, and lastly the diverse plethora that makes up Indian culture. Reaching beyond physical borders, we believe that by we can inspire unity across different cultures by finding universality in the particulars.
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