Hi guys welcome back to another blog post. This post Is about our 2023 PLP spring exhibition and the events leading up to it. This project was about WW1 and its battles.
The driving question is “what were the contrasting narratives of WW1. You’ll hear my question to this at the end.
At the start of this project We were told we were going to the MONOVA museum, because are spring exhibition was going to be themed as a museum and everyone will ave their own exhibit. We were tasked with researching and learning about museums and figuring out what exhibits our. Everyone took notes and predicted what they will be like at the exhibition versus what they are actually like once we visited.
Exhibits have a description of the things there and lots of different things on display, for example interactive experiments, but most of all exhibits tell story’s.
Next we went to the museum. At the museum I noticed that every exhibit tends to have a general theme and a description. For example at MONOVA there was a safety exhibit that was interactive. Every exhibit has different displayed objects relevant to that theme. Next after that experience the learning of WW1 began. We talked about famous battles and how the war began.
After that we were put into groups of 2 and made a presentation on a topic of our choice. Mine was on PTSD and I did it with my friend Daniel. Then after that we were put into bigger groups and we listed some of the contrasted narratives of war. For example the army painted the picture that every soldier would become a hero in reality they died a horrible death. We later figured out that these were our exhibition groups. We stared planning a room and themed in to WW1. My table setup was two iPads and a poster.
Having this understanding of the war was very beneficial when presenting because you could go off script and speak on related topics. Then the exhibition concluded. This project really opened my eyes to this project, imagine being a young 16 year old man who thinks he going to come back to his family as a hero, its truly sad.
My answer to the driving question is that people are tricked into thinking their lives will be full of glory when they don’t live long enough to see that. Thank you.