Our Progress on the Final Project

While brainstorming and researching for our project, we came up with a lot of different ideas that we eventually had to try our best to combine.

Ideas and Concepts:
- Real Stories (Inspiring stories with morals)
- Truths and Myths (Things that people think are true but are not actually true)
ex: 1. women in the gulf are abused 2. women in the gulf are not convinced with what they wear.. etc
- Religion and Beliefs
- Contemporary Culture (Our new evolving culture)
- Similarities and Differences (We always try to point out the things that makes us different and separate us, but forget the things that makes us similar)
- Stereotypes
- Cause and Effect

Possible Vehicles:
- Trading Cards/Flash Cards/Card Game
- Illustrations of Keywords on panels

We debated over the idea of a card game for a while, but decided that it wasn't in keeping with our concept, which is more about trading ideas, not comparing them. We landed on an idea that came about because of a photography exhibit that Maitha mentioned to us. The photographer had done a series of several photographs that all had the same compositions, but different subject matter. We agreed that this went along quite well with our concept that we are all different, but similar, and it is only when we share our thoughts that we accomplish the ultimate goal of understanding and peace.

Our vehicle will consist of 16 panels of MDF- each 15x15 inches. Each of the group members will be responsible for 4 of the panels and has total freedom as to what they what to put on the panels, as long as they have a triangle in the center of the composition. When the panels are turned over, as the viewer will be instructed to do, the 16 panels together will form a new image with a large triangle across them all. We chose a Triangle to symbolize the 3 different cultures that make up our group (Korean, American, Emirati).