In today's session I started to brainstorm my ideas for my final major project including the first stages of research that I wish to take for my main inspirations. I first started to think about the sort of things that I have become interested in lately and how I could translate that to a overall concept that could be explored for my final major project. Some of the things that I had become interested in lately was eastern culture, especially the Mesopotamian area of countries such as Turkey, Iraq, and to a extent India. So I started think of other things that I was also interested in and one thing came into mind recently was the sub-culture steampunk, which is a sort of aesthetic style based upon late 19th and early 20th century interpretations of what the future may look like with an influence coming heavily from the victorian era. This reminded me of the British empire and this is where I got my theme from which is empires as a general concept and what sort of subjects they bring up about when talking about them.
Here is where I drew my mind-map of all of the things that I would like to research about including the main areas I would like to focus on. theses included the British empire as its probably the one I know most about and because it allows me to explore the notions of steampunk along with my overall theme. I also want explore the Ottoman empire as they are rooted in Turkey which is one of the countries I would like to explore for aesthetic styles and they have such a long history that goes way back to the 1300's. The last empire I would like to look at is the roman empire because of their classical architectural and sculpture design plus they brought about modern western civilization. What I hope to achieve by the end of this project is a original interpretation of the steampunk sub-culture while exploring the themes of empires in a creative way.
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