In an increasingly globalised world, the concept of neighbours and our relationship to them is constantly shifting. Where once this would be considered the person who lived next door to you, we now see relationships between countries, species and ideologies that share common borders.
Engaging with neighbours is a delicate process which can involve collaboration and community as well as dispute and colonisation. As in the case of Brexit, where once European neighbours were free to roam each other's lands, now movement is restricted. This shifting sense of the border between groups causes new relationships, frictions and possibilities. New forms of human intervention in the world, such as rapid urbanisation, create polarising situations where, often, traditional ways of life are threatened while progressive modes of existence flourish.
Over the period of their study our students have had to work with one very particular border; the screen. Previous cohorts were unified within the confines of the College campus. The class of 2021 have found themselves sprawled across the globe with the internet as the space in which they lend their proverbial cup of sugar. No one is an island, and the works on show may be from individuals but the input goes way beyond those credited. From the formal conversations within the Programmes to the informal from their new support network, students have formed communities they will remain part of for the rest of their lives.
This theme includes student works about communities, about humanity and how as a species we are all in this together.
