About the Project
- Topic -
My project will explore the chess game and Brick Lane Market.
There is a unique activity in the market. On every Sunday, you will find a lot of people standing in front of a stall. It’s the chessman in the market. He can play simultaneous chess games, wheeling back and forth between tables on an office chair.
This is a journey into the chess world of the Brick Lane Market. Whether you have ever heard of the chess in markets, the project will give you a different sense.
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To show you how the game enlightens the markets, I also want to interest the visitors by designing an interactive website. You can explore the web by yourself just like I explore the market in my fieldwork. At the beginning of the project, I missed the chess for several times because of the weather and all the details about the chessman were collected from different voices. In this web, I want to guide you to find out them yourselves and encourage you to have your own chess play with the chessman.
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As you can see, I give you more than one choice on the homepage and the result depends on your reactions.
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It is a game and it is your turn!
- Research Questions -
The research can be divided into two parts.
One is the relationship between the chess game and the market, which can be studied by looking into the relationship between the chessman and his friends in the markets and the cultural meaning of games.
Another is what the chess game in this market means for visitors. The Brick Lane Market is famous for its food, vintages, crafts and so on. Then how do visitors like the chess game?