Type 5 : Issue 1 : Prototype

TYPE 5

ISSUE 1 : PROTOTYPE

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DEFINE: TYPE 5 The name and identity of Type 5 originates in the nine personality types defined by the Enneagram, a nine-sided diagram designed to represent the spectrum of human personality types. Type 5 is often known as the observer or the investigator and is perceived as being informed and knowledgeable. Type 5 individuals are always searching, questioning and delving deep and are innovators with a strong desire to test the truth of most assumptions for themselves, creating unexpected and original outcomes in the process. Type 5 is typically drawn to the unusual, the overlooked and the bizarre. It is unknown territory that aims to push boundaries and develop new and exciting ideas about viewing and interacting with the world.

The Type 5 concept aims to develop an experiential way for fashion film to be created and viewed by taking it from the internet, which has become its flat, two-dimensional home in recent years, and displaying it in a physical space. The elements of film, installation and this printed compendium of images are combined to produce an inspiring multi-sensory experience, changing the communication of fashion forever.

ISSUE 1: PROTOTYPE Type 5’s aim is to overturn accepted ideas and doctrines in favour of new approaches and ways of thinking. Issue 1: Prototype serves as a visual exploration of some of society’s conventions and expectations and provides a justification for future issues in which boundaries will be pushed and challenging concepts created.

Most of us are welcomed into the world with a path that we are expected to follow. Mystery and the unknown are banished and replaced with routine and the safe banality of everyday life.

We are educated and thrown into an inescapable system full of rules not made to be broken and boxes that need to be ticked. Complaining seems wrong and we are lucky to receive an education, but our abilities to question and innovate are stunted. Taking risks is too risky and we become trapped in an endless cycle, doing things that we don’t really want to do because we’ve forgotten or never learnt how to think for ourselves.

Escapism is brief before we are caught once again and converted to our old ways of thinking, sucked into a life ruled by someone else’s mind. Find the key to your own door before it is too late.

We are not machines.

We are Type 5.

CHAPTERS: 1 — BIRTH 2 — EDUCATE 3 — ESCAPE 4 — ARREST 5 — CONVERT

BIRTH

1

An artificial life

Sterile

The bright lights and the gloved hands

EDUCATE

2

Never lead

Always follow

ESCAPE

3

The taste of freedom

Alone and on the run

Hide

ARREST

4

Warning

The faceless and the nameless

CONVERT

5

Indoctrinate

The restless trance

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