And Another Thought

Had a few more thoughts, whilst bored at work today, about the project, just in case we want to throw a couple more ideas around before we settle on something.

Adam - I know you said in our group chat about doing it on the Marquis of Granby (I'm guessing not 100% seriously, seeing as it was 4am at the time) but it did get me thinking about your point earlier in the lecture about the politics of pubs, or something along those lines. Thinking locally, what makes people go to somewhere like the Marquis of Granby or New Cross Inn as opposed to places like The Talbot or New Cross House? Is there something potentially to be investigated there, perhaps about image / class / 'modern social tribes'? I feel like I always bump in to people studying Design in the House, and equally can't go to Marquis without meeting someone from Politics/Anthropology etc. Would these people still go to Marquis if you were getting a double G&T for the best part of £9, and equally would the New Cross House lot stay if there was questionable horse racing photos on the wall or a really awkward bar? Everyone has their favourite, or 'local', and think it could be interesting to look in to this and see if there's any way of altering things there.

Another completely unrelated thought was whether we could do something looking at Police stop and searches. This thought is even less developed than the others that I've had, but I feel like it's quite a hot topic at the moment that's both highly political and would be easy to base some sort of intervention on.

Not 100% sure where I'm going with either of these thoughts, but just wanted to put them out there with the potential of discussion. Completely unrelated to the music theme we'd been looking at so apologies for that!