Monday, March 19, 2012

Triggering Unity Concept

On Friday we were created a concept based on one of our ideas. Here it is:

Proposal:

Social experiment that will allow us the opportunity to witness a temporary breakdown of these so called bonds and see an immediate change in the unity that stems from the various sources of catalyst we test out on our human subjects. 

Concept:
What we're looking for isn't necessarily a complete transformation from a Decentralized network. We can already predict that some catalyst/events we use may not have any effect at all. We can also hope to see a reaction that permanently change the social links instead of expecting it to dissolve back to it's original state. Some catalyst may have a great effect and some may have no effect at all. Some may have an effect temporarily while others may last permanently. We expect to test out different approaches, different catalyst to observe and study these "artificial connections" we create to form a social link, a network that wasn't previously a network. 

An example of this could be a simple experiement of how an element of "Fear" has on the combined student body in their natural habitat, the BCT Studio. 

One experiment can be a installation of a "Fake" Fire alarm and setting it off to see an immediate trigger of events, witnessing the students dropping their differences, differing attractions and repulsion to evacuate in unity. Conceptual unity we expect many of us would react to especially if we were raised in New Zealand attending schools with regular fire evacuation exercises held throughout the year. 

Already we are able to witness vastly differing some more vibrant and excited than others.

We see forces of attraction between people but we can also observe forces of repulsion between individuals.

Ultimately we can observe attraction between these individuals forming tight bonds and creating an element.

We saw this connection the moment we got back after the summer break as we disbanded from the first brief, it didn't even take an hour before the said attraction formed groups of 5 strong attractive electrons (students) creating a tight bond called an atom (group). By us applying a catalyst/strong element to force these atoms to break we will release these electrons from the bonds that holds them together. 

A catalyst can be anything from a simulated fire alarm or act of believable terrorism which would need to be expanded and researched before put into action. 

We believe that if we apply a catalyst in the form of terror we are able to witness a destruction of the social links and create a temporary unity by forced means stemmed from a basic human survival instinct. The element of "Fear" is just one of many different types of catalyst we can expand on. Other things can stem from social charity, giving away free stuff which always has potentials to draw interests. We believe there are many so called "potent" catalyst that allows different individuals to come together.

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