This blog is via video. As the weeks are passing by and our idea is gradually coming together, I thought it was a better idea to show what we’re thinking and designing rather than telling. Afterall we are creating a piece that is heavily reliant on aesthetics, visuals and audio.

I’m not sure whether ‘humanising’ is a word but dehumanising is. The act of denying ‘a full humaness to others’ (Haslam, 2006, pg 252). In the same way as personifying, I want to approve and explore the idea of applying human characteristics such as thought and feeling into the building; representing the Grandstand in the form of a person through narration.

Here is a list of other information that we took from our second visit to the Lincolnshire Archives that I could not fit in the video but definitely working on over the next 4 weeks:

• Firework display cost £150
• Making EXPO tickets? Original pricing: 25p for Adults, 12 1/2p for OAP and School Children
• Over 19,000 visitors in just a few days
• Sherry Party
• A big programme of all the trades and businesses at the EXPO such as Travel Agents, Ridgeways Teabags, A.W Curtis Butchers/Delicatessen, Evans and Newton Potatoes aswell as Collins Taxi’s.
• Demonstrations: Judo, cooking etc
• Michael O’Farrell, showed his play called ‘Song of their Captive’ about the differences between the Irish and English. Journalist and reviewer John Flint gave it a one star and said it needed more ‘subtlety and imagination’. *Can’t find the play on library or internet records
• Civic Ball in Dome is where Edmundo Ros played
• Art Exhibition- paintings, sculptures, photography, pottery and tapestry
• Competitions and Pageants: Golf Championship, Miss and Mr Expo 69, Mr Lincoln 69
• EXPO lost £4,000 altogether
• Fashion Show times: 11.30am, 1.15pm, 2.30pm and 4.30pm
• Lincoln Chronicle: Expo Special headline – ‘EXPO 69 will stir the dust’

Apologies for some spelling mistakes in video: *Aesthetics *Pageants

References

Haslam, Nick (2006) Dehumanization: An Integrative Review. [online] Melbourne: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. Available from http://general.utpb.edu/FAC/hughes_j/Haslam%20on%20dehumanization.pdf?hosts= [Accessed 2 April 2014]