Living in a Curators World

Curating is the process of organizing information documents and pictures into one cohesive exhibit. The group decided on the name "Living in Filth" because all of of our scores lead back to pollution and bad living conditions. To start we put a map that pointed out the growth in coal and factories so people would understand where all the "filth" was coming from. One of our scores was a picture of a river in Manchester. the river was polluted from all the coal and smoke and also had turned into a dumping ground. Another document was describing a river not much different than the conditions of the river in Manchester the only difference was that it was The River Thames. Both of those documents were focused more on the pollution of rivers so we put those near each other because they went well together. The other image was showing more of the poverty. It showed the people living and sleeping on the streets. All of the people were in tattered and old clothing. With that image we put the chart document that showed the nominal earnings, cost of living, and real earnings which further illustrated the poverty. TO close off the exhibit we put a document of text describing the different opinion in England of the industrialization. On top of all that we needed to make it visually appealing so we used a bunch of puffs of smoke and a smokestack to fill in empty space and to make it more creative. When visiting our exhibit i hope people will learn that even though the industrial revolution brought so many good advances that it also brought poverty and pollution with it.