Group Robot (week 22)

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Robot at The Manchester Museum of Science and Industry (2017)
Putting together teams, who and why? what's the brief?

Teams are assembling nicely for the Material Revolution Conference... although we were a large group interested in the digital aspects, we have split fairly naturally into 3 smaller teams.
Our task will be to create a promotional poster and website for a new material/way of working/concept or product that relates to one of the themes of the conference, targeting one of more of the companies that will be present at the gala drinks reception.

There was a little shyness in the groups at first, perhaps because we are all a little unsure of what exactly we are letting ourselves in for, and also knowing we will be relying on people we have only just met for our grades. That is quite a difficult trust exercise, and reflects fairly accurately concerns of new developmental teams in industry  too.

My team has a good spread of complimentary disciplines (a pattern cutter, a graphic designer and a 3D digital artist) and we are all engaged with the subject of science fiction, the future, digital technologies and new ways of thinking.... so I'm looking forward to our first brainstorm.

As we were already thinking about ethics as part of our research methods and planning, initial brief conversations centred around the parallels between the boards of ethics being set in place for AI paralleling those of animal and human welfare (maybe via robots?) but we'll see if that train of thought evolves into anything concrete...

In preparation we are researching the companies and the speakers at the conference, There are a few companies I have investigated before as part of my major project..... and I created a whats-app group for both the larger and smaller teams in order to easily stay in touch through the week.

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