Introducing the project-

 My theme for this project is Urban-Eyes, clever wordplay admittedly however I wanted to actually ask myself what it meant to live in the city, how it affects who I am, what I would be like had I grown up in the countryside? These were all very pending questions which were explored with a dynamic mind map. 

  The mind map which I created- these were all vague ideas and interests with no real intention of narrowing my ideas or generating a sub-theme at this point. When I was creating this, there seemed to be a recurring theme of risk and danger, every hobby and activity that I associated with the city seemed to be riddled with danger and unpredictability, not that people in the countryside are incapable of taking risks, but they experience different dangers. The majority of great things and relics that are accessible in the city have risk attached, I then thought about what activity interests me the most and how this could push my ideas, I like the idea of exploring and accessing derelict spaces in the city, these spaces, the forbidden spaces are visually stunning and are a great starting point for my research, I then mind-mapped my forbidden spaces idea to see what ideas spur from that, the result was much more rooted and versatile, a great start to my project.

 From forbidden spaces, which I knew I wanted to be my sub-theme I found Urban Exploration, where participants 'place-hack' their way into skyscrapers, drains, tube tunnels and derelict spaces to take amazing photos, and have amazing experiences. I thought this would be a great place to start as I am familiar with the community and have the privilege of having arguably the most key urban explorer in the world within my inner circle of friends, he is a very famous photographer and a great artist to analyse to push my ideas further!