Just to make sure we're all working from the same starting point, here's a recap of the Muddy Cup meetings of Thursday 15 May 2008. If memory serves, Mariah, Brett, Kris, Lauren, Jen, Shawn, Adam and Xueyi were able to attend; Stephanie, Stefan, Elaina, Modesto, Laura, Cody, Theresa, Lorelei were not.
No worries, it's all here.
We talked about our
• theme : global citizenship, what this means for individuals and designers
• roles within that theme : local | tourist | emigrant
• 1st semester activities : ongoing projects | field trips | visitors | film series | reading | writing | a blog
2008-2009 plans
• to do both OMNI and the museum show (so there's a similar experience for everyone)
• to support both (really deal with what it means to show work in the museum and be prepared to do so)
• Our 1st semester goals are to (1) identify a globally-oriented issue that design can promote, solve, remediate and (2) have begun investigating a design response. The idea should be firmly enough situated that it can be presented at OMNI at the end of the semester
• The 2nd semester goals are to (1) have created the design solution | intervention, (2) have launched | tested it, and (3) to have shown it at the museum at the end of the 2nd semester
Summer 2008 plans
• summer reading : Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, a graphic novel about a young girl growing up in Iran ( just made into a film; we’ll screen it next semester ) by Marjane Satrapi. The film trailer can be seen at www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PXHeKuBzPY And I haven’t checked it out but persepolis.com is supposed to be a rich web resource for Iranian culture and society.
• summer project 1 : choose to document through photography / video and / or a collection of artifacts your summer 2008 experience as a local OR a tourist OR an emigrant. You can take on a role and try to see through someone else's eyes, or be yourself. If you're in the position of enacting more than one role and can document this multiplicity, go ahead and do so. How many images and artifacts? Well, how many do you think makes for a rich description? Let’s say 100. Bring this stuff with you for our first meeting in a format that will make it easy for us to view.
• summer project 2 : do what you need to do in order to come to our first class with 10 possible project ideas reflecting your interests in possible ddesign pursuits along with a few supporting sources for each idea. This can be somewhat loose ("1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10") and list-like, but typeset neatly for me to collect. Sources in bibliographic style.
• summer project 3 : during the summer each person is expected to make a reading / resource suggestion for the group ( via this blog ); let's establish the habit of sharing resources
• every day : connect to reputable ( online or not ) news sources, particularly the BBC World News ( online ); their international coverage is stellar and includes hard and “soft” news items
• every week : check NP email and the blog
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2 comments:
Is is ok that i do emigrants being an emigrant?
what do you think? i'm open. some people are using this to try out a role or see if they can define more than one role.
it would be interesting for us to know exactly how individuals define these terms for themselves.
what are those moments when you feel particularly like you're in a new home, not visiting, not completely as familiar as your first home? and what is that feeling like?
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