Fibrecity

Our group met to discuss our DIR project, where we talked about the title for our project, as we felt it may help us to tie it all together. We were considering how to relate the project to Dundee, as we thought that the general population may not actually relate to the Art/Design and University based culture in the city, and would identify Dundee with the past associations such as Jute, Jam and Journalism. We thought it may also be useful to look into the language used in promoting the idea, as it would be important to look into the mindset of the people that we would hope to involve.

We found out that Dundee is to be Scotland's first Fibrecity. We really liked the term, and thought about ways to incorporate the idea of "weaving" the old and new images of Dundee to connect the people of the city together to form the "fabric" of the city.

The concept of Fibrecity also brought us onto a discussion of the digital divide, and how something like this which proposes the connect the community better to the outside world may inadvertently cause some people to become more detached.