AS to A2 work to complete over the holiday for next term

Communication
and
Culture

Manchester’s Places and Spaces.





Itinerary

10am Arrive in Manchester Piccadilly from Davenport station, walk to
Manchester Art gallery.
10 30am Tour of the Art Gallery.
11 30am Walk to the ‘Hidden Gem’, St Mary’s RC Church.
12 noon Walk to St Ann’s Square. St Ann’s Church and Royal Exchange.
12 30pm Lunch, look at The Victorian Arcade.
1 15pm. Meet back at Royal Exchange and walk to John Rylands Library
1 30pm. Tour of John Rylands Library
2pm Look around the Spinningfields Area.
2 45pm Depart for college.

Other Places of Interest (perhaps you will have opportunities over summer)

The Cathedral
Piccadilly Gardens
Central Library
Town Hall
The Wheel/ Fountain area, Big TV Screen/ Printworks/Triangle
The Northern Quarter
China Town
The Gay Village
The Bridgewater Hall
GMEX
Beetham Tower
Chethams school of Music and The National Football Museum at URBIS.

What are you looking for evidence of?

We are looking at places and spaces as texts.

Texts can be deconstructed for meaning and you have to try to deconstruct these sites for messages about power, value and Culture.

What do these buildings and their layout say about the City of Manchester?
How is the City representing itself to visitors?
What do these buildings say about Manchester’s past and its present?

We need to ask ourselves..

How does this building make me feel?
Do I feel welcome in it or does it make me feel an outsider?
Is there anybody who would not come into this building?
How does this building communicate these messages to me?
Who does the building think I am? (Mode of Address)
What is its purpose?
Did it ever have another purpose? What evidence have you got of this?

For every building/place or space you enter (channel) think Lasswell!
Sender (preferred reading)
Message (How does it create meaning? Paradigms, signs, anchorage, polysemic, intertextual.)
Receiver/ Audience (oppositional, negotiated, preferred reading, demographics, psychographics, democratic, anyone excluded? Why? How)
Purpose /Effect (what is the building/space and place for? How does it make its audience feel? How does it communicate this purpose?)

Keep a written record of your thoughts.

Take plenty of photographs and upload them to a powerpoint tonight for your homework.
Annotate them with words to describe some of their meanings.
Submit to Julie in your next timetabled lesson and save it to your area for use next term.

January Exam 2013.
Next January there will be a question on the A2 exam that asks you how Places and Spaces communicate meaning to an audience.

Today provides you with really important case study material for this exam. It is very important that you continue to keep building your portfolio of Places and Spaces.

Over the summer, keep taking photographs of buildings and Places and Spaces and add them to your portfolio.


Have Fun!