3rd WEEK Begins :D

    During my group's activity, we learned seriously how to make the bibliography, and proposal.
Here is our proposal :D

Proposal for Design Process

Group                       : LOL

Members                   : Jessica (Leader)           

       Gaby (Scribe)

       Jingxi

       Pauline

Topic                        : Children’s schoolbag is too heavy

Description               :

Nowadays majority of children who go to school face the problem of heavy schoolbags. Surveys have shown that considerable number of students from primary to secondary schools often carry bags that are more than 10% body weight. The negative consequences have been yielded such as pain in back, shoulders and neck and in some cases scoliosis for young children. The first step of approaching this was to identify the stakeholders of it and continued by considering all possible factors that may have contributed in creating the problem.  

Stake holders:                                        Possible factors:

-        Students                                 - Availability of good school bag quality with reasonable price in the market

-        Parents                                  - School curriculum

-        Teachers                                - Book sizes and weight

-        School                                   - Teachers and parents control on the children
-                                                  -Students’ attitude

           Empathizing was the next step to gain a better understanding of each stakeholder’s perspective of this problem. To research into specific problems, we created framed design question to identify possible problems for which solutions can be designed to solve the problems. Here is the list of our design questions:

- What is the availability of ergonomically designed bag in the market?

- What is the price range of ergonomics school bags?

- Why are school books’ designs bulky?

- Who are involved (the most) to this problem? 

- What is the percentage of school providing locker facility or book/laptop rental facility?

Research Sources

Online article

Yap, Eve. ‘Kids’ Weighty Problem’. The Straits Times.  12 Jan. 2014. Accessed 18 Jan. 2014

Handlon, Rhonda. ‘The Family Media Guardian’. Focus On The Family. 13 Jan. 2014.

Book

Waliszweski, Bob. ‘Plugged-in Parenting’. Tindale House. 2011.

Super thankksss to Gaby, our beloved scribe !!!! 

hahahaa 

She was the one who started this proposal

and She did great, didn't she?!!

IT'S THE SECOND WEEK OF SCHOOL!!!

         TODAAYYY, my group and i have finished our first mind map for the design process class.
Based on our topic, we made it not so simple yet about to be a bit complicated.

I'll show you guys the photos hehe..

Sorry for the un-tidy words and writing hahahaa 

We held our meeting this morning at 10pm, in the library, level 6 of our beloved univ :p 

We decided students, parents, curriculums, transportation, bag's quality, and school's facilities as our main points to be ranched. 

We also got the new theme for this second week. It's empathy and sympathy. According to the video we watched in class, empathy is putting yourself in to someone else's problem. And sympathy is more like in an "ignorant" way. 

1. Empathy is the capacity to recognise emotions that are being experienced by another sentient or fictional being. One may need to have a certain amount of empathy before being able to experience accurate sympathy or compassion. 
2. Sympathy is the perception, understanding, and reaction to the distress or need of another human being. This empathic concern is driven by a switch in viewpoint, from a personal perspective to the perspective of another group or individual who is in need. Empathy and sympathy are often used interchangeably. Sympathy is a feeling, but the two terms have distinct origins and meanings. Empathy refers to the understanding and sharing of a specific emotional state with another person. Sympathy does not require the sharing of the same emotional state. Instead, sympathy is a concern for the well-being of another. Although sympathy may begin with empathizing with the same emotion another person is feeling, sympathy can be extended to other emotional states.

Sources : www.wikipedia.com

Pardon our selfie hahaaha 

It was me, Glory, Pauline, and Gaby. 

For the second exercise, me and Gaby will try to pretend for being parents, we decided it to the prestiges one, and the tight budget. 

HAI MY BLOGGGG!!! I'm back from my "hibernation" haha..

HAI MY BLOGGGG!!! I'm back from my "hibernation" haha..

    Hai pals, I just got back from my long longg holiday :D But it's a bit short actually. The place where i belong was always too bad to be left. *sigh*
Ok, anyway school was "welcoming" me again with so many new friends, new class, new teachers, and dawns ofcourse.
On the 4th day of my first week i learned again about creative thinking. But now its called a bit different, we called it Design Process class.
   It didn't have so many differences between them actually, because as what we've learned before, how to design, create, imagine, solve, mind map, and etcetera we'll be learning it all again in this class.


             Back to the first topic, let's talk about the class. It was quite interesting. Ms. Mariene Yang and Mr. Ang Chiat will be our lecturers for the next 14 weeks for this lessons. The first thing we did was getting in our new groups, based on our names and classes. We were united with class D hehehe...
   And yeaahh i lost the scissor paper rock kind of game, and i became the leader of my group.
And i'm in the 4th group. Me, Gaby, Glory, and Pauline.
   That first lesson gave us so many topics to choose. And we decided to pick "Children bags' too heavy." It was based on our "very quick" brainstorm and discussion on our table.
And our very first meeting will be held next week, before the class started.




      Buuutttt, my own opinion about our topic is not as simple as that "kiddy colourful backpack".
The first reason from me personally, it's a big big problem which has started since they're really young. The biggest factor is ofcourse the curriculum of the education. The light books are really rare to find nowadays. Especially those that titled history, or something as thick as a Holly Bible. The next reason is the "less care" of their parents. Every single day, the lessons from normal junior high school or even from elementary school will always change. Some parents even don't look care a lot about that. So their children just pack all their one day book package in their bags, then carry it half of day. And somehow, the bag's quality can be a big problem. Because perhaps it doesn't complete the standard quality of how it supposed to be. Then it doesn't support the weight of children's belongings as well. So some back and  humped problem will be coming soon.

And here are my secondary research according to the topic....


   "Despite parents' best efforts to protect their children from getting hurt, one of the greatest sources of potential injury which often goes unnoticed is the school backpack. According to a report in NewsWise, the school bag carried by children everyday causes pain and fatigue to as many as 50 per cent of children today. " 

    A study conducted by the American Physical Therapy Association has found that more than 50 per cent of children surveyed carry backpacks heavier than 15 per cent of their body weight. 

"Children carrying this kind of weight can develop serious back pain and other problems that can require treatment," says Avrom Gart, Medical Director at the Cedars-Sinai Institute for Spinal Disorders. 

"To manage the load, children sometimes arch their backs or lean forward, causing them to develop poor posture as they grow," 

  Source :   http://vustudents.ning.com
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Introducing my 2D fundamental group project. Actually, this is our final project which has been re-done for twice. The basic idea was actually to make a combination of our 4 faces (me, and my group member) as one in an A0 size.

The most challenging thing was the requirements that were needed. We need to fill that big face with very small elements, and no repetition methods were allowed to use. The only materials that we used were just black drawing pen with several sizes. We spent about four days to fill it up with the super tiny dots, which was a request from our lecturer.  As you can see at the zoomed in part above, its was one of my parts, and I filled it with the Balinese traditional aksara, and  the words writing is mentioning my groups name and a long-short story about our journey.

After the assessment week ended, we realized that we learned so many things from that activity. The very first thing was the group intention and cooperation, and last but not least was not to make something in an “any how” way. 

The very last week :D *Thankfully*

What if people live for a hundred years later from NOW? 

       This question was what i've discussed with my group, Yufan and Eurick for the final week and also the presentation. We did a short brain storming to get some ideas what to make and present. Then, we got some references from the internet. Some of us have watched a move called Surrogates before. But honestly i haven't watched it yet. But i've heard the long story short from my group about it. 
          
        Surrogates is a 2009 American science fiction action film, based on the 2005–2006 comic book series of he same name. Directed by Jonathan Mostow, it stars Bruce Willis as FBI Agent Tom Greer who ventures out into the real world to investigate the murder of surrogates (humanoid remote control vehicles). It also stars Radha Mitchell , Rosamund Pike, Boris Kodjoe, Ving Rhames and James Cormwell.

         The film's main concept centres around the mysterious murder of a college student linked to the man who helped create a high-tech surrogate phenomenon that allows people to purchase remote controlled humanoid robots through which they interact with society. These fit, attractive, remotely controlled robots ultimately assume their life roles, enabling people to experience life vicariously from the comfort and safety of their own homes. Surrogates was released on September 25, 2009 in the United States and Canada. And it was released by TouchStone Pictures .

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         Based on that, we decided to make something futuristic. And this film became our main reference. We did it in our sketch book first, brainstorm, then make the outcome in the A3 size paper. Then took the picture. Here are some of the photos. It's simple but i think its explaining enough. 

        Basically, we chose a robot because in the future everything is gonna be "able" and instant. The robots we make is going to be as clever as us, the human being. The prices maybe so expensive, but its all gonna be payed off with their multitasking behaviour and treats. Without my explanations you i'm sure you can imagine how easy our life is will be in the future. No need to pay maids, driver, or even gardener. They can do all your homeworks also with the easiness to use. I'm sure, the modern technology in our future will adequate this robots basic requirements. 

ASSESSMENT WEEK, I'M COMMINGG!!!

        For right the last weeks until the foundation ends, I've learned about analogical thinking in my creative thinking's class. And guess what? today it's just started.

Analogy : is a cognitive process of transferring information or meaning from a particular subject (the analogue or source) to another particular subject (the target), or a linguistic expression corresponding to such a process. The word analogy can also refer to the relation between the source and the target themselves, which is often, though not necessarily, a similarity, as in the biological notion of analogy. 
                                                                                                    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analogy



               But in a simple way, i do understand the analogical thinking as the way people formed something, based on what has inspired them. It can be design or anything.  And here are 5 pictures that me and my group has found, to reflect a bit about analogical thinking, and also the rests are my individual's.

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                Those images are some examples how people express what has been inspired them into something valuable and really good to be seen. As we see in our real life, there are so many things that have influenced by their own basic materials. As the building at the last picture, it looks like a huge fungi or plantae kinds of things. And this architectural thingies were really related to their very first material in an idea form. For me and my group, to see what these things brought are so unique and catchy. And with the sea horse's dinning table, people will really think how can the designer make the shape looks alike that, even before they sit. 

Source : http://elsies-world.blogspot.sg

                  I found this cute little acc in elsie's blog when i was searching about analogical thinking examples. It's really cute, isn't it? 

I think her idea was really succeeded, because she's like comparing the similarity into one simple design. It can also describe her hobby or what she likes. Plants, green, or flowers perhaps.  

         Source : http://www.yankodesign.com/2008/04/15/design-digest-vol10/

           This artsy little candle was designed by Jaehyung Hong. Which was really inspired by the egg and the kitchen's stuff. His art work is really simple but he did it in a really interesting way too. So i really get the similarity from an egg to a unique candle. 

Source : http://abduzeedo.com/awesome-nature-inspiration

                Analogical thinking brings us beautifully how nature influences our life. People may use it as reference to make/build near anything. In this case, the fashion world gets inspired by it. Nature has it all. Shapes, color, textures and whole other bunch of things that would inspire us. Cars, home appliances from all kind, clothes. It's a never ending source of ideas. But it may not last forever... so people, do you share in order to preserve our home planet. It is the only place you can live after all.

 Source : http://www.yankodesign.com/2007/02/13/egg-bird-house-by-schatz-studio/

                   Give birds a welcome home and a place to hatch their young with the colorful and durable 

Egg Bird House. The glossy ceramic Egg Bird House has a 1 1/8″ diameter entry hole to attract 

chickadees, wrens and smaller birds, keeping house sparrows out. The handmade Egg Bird House is 

easy to use, durable, predator proof and available in eight glossy colors. A perfect outdoor companion to the Egg Bird Feeder that will keep birds coming to your home all year long. 

It is a design by Schatz Studio. His idea was really linking the nature with what we call modernly made nowadays. 

       And these kinds of things really made me think of how the artist thoughts and brainstormed their ideas to create something which is look like it's real material without forgetting the brilliant functions. 

New theme :D

Pareidolia  is a psychological phenomenon involving a vague and random stimulus (often an image or sound) being perceived as significant, a form of apophenia. Common examples include seeing images of animals or faces in clouds, the man in the moon or the moon rabbit, and hearing hidden message on records when played in reverse.




            Sometimes i really think about how the unexpected things comes accidentally out. And this is what people called Pereidolia. There are so many things in our daily life prove this theory. And here are some simple pictures i got, and they made me understand what is Pareidolia phenomena. 

Source : www.google.com