I have taken this sign, found at the unused entrance of the Matthew Building as the starting point for my investigation into craft.
What is interesting to me is that the sign has not been updated to the new usage plan for the building. We no longer have a Food & Accommodation Management Course. I had no idea untill I saw this image that we ever had such a course. Would it be fair to say that at the time this sign was present the college views cooking as just as a creative and artistic endevour as courses on offer today. It would be interesting to find out when and why this change took place.
I then tried to picture what is now in place of the Resturant and Student Association. I realised that both social areas have now been replaced by IT suites.
This point was very interesting to me because not only because it seems a shame to have lost these spaces but it said something to me about the way in which our creative processes are being altered by technology.
From what I have read and heard the future will see humans ever more dependent on the technology that will be increasingly embeded in everyday objects such as textiles.
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