After proposing the ida of the gentlemens club to Amanda, she advised use to look at weird traditional English traditions, such as the cheese rolling in cheshire, also typically british foods. We were told to find a name and write the rules/philosophy to begin with which then can be used to form the rest of the brand of the club. We were told to look at tradition and use our imaginations to bring it to modern day in a quirky fun way.
So we thought about possible rules in the evening and further thought what could be the brand of the club.
Our tutorial with Sadhna brought up the morals of a club like this. Main points were
Like the freemasons clubs, the idea of the club was romantizing something that wasn’t sound.
The university is a multi cultural place, why just base it on the british.
“Shaky”
Our final feeling was that we should drop the “upper class” english idea.
After a short lunch we broadened our idea to present to Patrick, we said we are going to form a social club, where by the people for St Martins can join and remain in contact, A club where by events can be held annually to bring these people back together and to remain part of this network.
He said that to follow the tradition of clubs isn’t necessary. and we should look at other practical things to make it work. such as Backing people up with clients etc, hints and tips, common problems in the field, sharing Knowledge and experience, he mentioned other “design clubs” such as grafill and QBN.
We then worked on this idea of forming a club whereby someone can get hints and tips about working on a project and other ideas including : Sharing peoples work, Cross-collabortion network, Seminars could be videoed and shared, coffee break video chats, We then thought about what the main aspects of CSM are.
