tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50801000684897862052024-02-06T20:48:56.255-08:00JoAnNeS bLoG:)Joanne White
2nd Year Studying Textile Design At Duncan Of Jordanstone College Of Art & Design
Dundeejwhite53http://www.blogger.com/profile/04843172515693432920noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5080100068489786205.post-65427362730329251032011-04-11T12:55:00.000-07:002011-04-11T12:55:44.986-07:00Assignment 5 - Planning for the future<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Research Proposal</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">After reading the book "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell back in late 2010, I chose to look more into the chapter The Power of Context (1). This was all about a man called Bernie Goetz and the Rise and Fall of New York crime rates. In my research proposal I plan to explore further into how residents feel living in an area of criminal activities and how street design can reduce crime rates. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"></span><span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I chose to focus more on "The Broken Windows Theory" and how it links the psychological reasons behind the people who commit the crime. The theory states that by keeping an area monitored and clean, it may reduce further vandalism and the escalation of more serious crimes. So by creating a clean-up scheme and making area's a more pleasant place to live, can instantly reduce crime rates. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“Crime, Shame and Reintegration” by John Braithwaite is book I looked into which offers a perspective of crime and punishment in the US. Braithwaite believes that the current system of dealing with crime and punishment today is not effective, due to people using the shaming technique incorrectly. The book also looks into the psychology behind criminal behaviour and the reasons why people do it or in some cases do not participate. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I also looked at a journal called “<a href="http://cross-search.dundee.ac.uk/V/D2DVRUCBTSL4PTNFJBES3HJMK4TXLRTCUG3TDXSBLH9TD9QMXN-91490?func=eshelf-2&short-format=002&set_entry=000004&format=999" title="Neighbourhood design and fear of crime: A social-ecological examination of the correlates of residents' fear in new suburban housing developments"><span style="color: windowtext; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Neighbourhood design and fear of crime: A social-ecological examination of the correlates of residents' fear in new suburban housing developments</span></a></span><span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">” by Sarah Foster, Billie Giles-Corti and Matthew Knuiman.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The study explores the connection between neighborhood design and residents’ fear of crime in suburban housing areas. Both primary reports and second hand data were collected as part of a project called: the RESIDential Environments (RESIDE) Project. They came to the conclusion that people feel a lot safer in a pedestrian area with a higher density and more accessible space to get to shops etc. The article speaks about fear and how it creates anxiety and can affect someone’s mental health. For example small things such as litter, vandalism and graffiti can all heighten insecurities and prevent residents from wanting to go out into their own neighborhood and socialise. </span><span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Linking back to the “The Broken Windows Theory” this article is similar in suggesting that if areas of wider land space are created, the less crime that is going to be produced and the level of resident’s fearfulness is reduced. Same as if an area has the beginning of windows being broken, vandals will see this area as being a place excellent for disrupting even more and the criminal behaviour is continued. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I plan to investigate further into residents living in fear due to criminal behaviour and how this can be reduced through a change in street design by using a range of different methods and service design tools. I aim to find out of these residents are feeling using techniques I have learned throughout the year in design studies. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I would use interviews as my main method of gathering information, as I feel it was the most successful. I would measure the level of residents fear by myself and the ideas they have on reducing crime rates within the neighborhood they live in. This would also allow me to and interact closely with the people involved and make them feel part of the community which they live in.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Mind mapping is a technique I would most definitely use to organise and record the data gained from the interviews, to make it clear if there is a connection between how residents living in the same high crime rate area are feeling.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another technique I would use to collect my own opinions of the criminal activity happening is the observation tool. I first used this technique when we went to the Bingo as part of an assignment to see how people act in a certain environment. Although it isn’t the safest of tools (I would go to a neighborhood with a friend), it allows data to be collected first hand on how children and vandals today are acting within quite a rough housing scheme. By observing people and going to the areas myself I could think of ideas myself by changing the street design to reduce crime and mention these to the residents when carrying out the interviews.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also find it intriguing to go to an area that has already been cleaned up to see the difference for myself if the “Broken Windows Theory” really does work and that crime does reduce. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By interviewing residents who live in an area that has already been cleaned up, I’m hoping would prove to me that changing street design really can reduce residents fear.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Here are some of the questions I would ask the residents:</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">On a level of 1 to 10 how secure do you feel living in this area?</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Do you let your children play outside and feel secure knowing so?</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Have you ever witnessed criminal activities going on in your neighborhood?</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Do you feel criminal behaviour has decreased or increased over the years living here?</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">How do you think that street design can reduce crime happening?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I used the brainstorming technique myself, using post it notes to come up with my own ideas of how criminal behaviour such as violence, graffiti, theft, littering and drug use, can all be reduced through changing the street design in the areas affected most. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The ideas I came up with were:</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Better street lighting</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Lowering hedges and fences</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Increased CCTV</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Higher density streets e.g. Wider pavements</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Re-vamping the houses e.g. resurfacing, new windows and doors</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">More police checks, doing rounds of the area</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Plants and flowers creating a more pleasant environment (linking back to the “Broken Windows Theory”)</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 36pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Fitting houses with Burglar Alarms</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">By going ahead with these ideas advertises a nicer environment to live in attracting more residents to live there and hopefully in the end opening up more opportunities for the younger generation, keeping them off the streets and inspired. It makes the youth feel like they are more connected to one another and part of the community they live in. It will include showing them more authority figures and people to look up to, overall creating a more pleasant area to live in. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"></span><span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">From using the techniques I discussed, I hope to gain a better insight on how Design really can reduce crime rates in a neighborhood and overall create a more cheerful and homely place to live in.</span></div>jwhite53http://www.blogger.com/profile/04843172515693432920noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5080100068489786205.post-54275123080814394462011-04-11T11:21:00.000-07:002011-04-11T11:21:14.948-07:00Assignment 5 - Mind MapAlthough not many people enjoy doing mind maps, I find them really helpful for getting started in a project. As it's been a while since doing Semester 2 assignment 4 - Reading and Reviewing, I thought I'd recap Crime in general (through the use of a mind map) before beginning Assignment 5 - Planning for the future. <br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQoNpISwfdu4MI8qxXqWVmJiMnqie0zpgD0eqw6x2uk43pPy9lJ7k4Mf61vQk-Uq3K3xmrvko4wBI8joSWLW5GrkLi8zDo3OI78hhnznVhHOJ3dbIUem6muXyTK8mMPF0RDF-4FdN58XA/s1600/SDC11497.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQoNpISwfdu4MI8qxXqWVmJiMnqie0zpgD0eqw6x2uk43pPy9lJ7k4Mf61vQk-Uq3K3xmrvko4wBI8joSWLW5GrkLi8zDo3OI78hhnznVhHOJ3dbIUem6muXyTK8mMPF0RDF-4FdN58XA/s320/SDC11497.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>jwhite53http://www.blogger.com/profile/04843172515693432920noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5080100068489786205.post-15074299292212421962011-04-10T12:36:00.000-07:002011-04-10T12:36:41.714-07:005 things. . .So as part of Assignment 5, we have been asked to plan 5 things to do/change that is linked with design studies, which can be completed over our Summer holidays!<br />
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5 changes I will do to my blog:<br />
<ul><li>Create a new layout</li>
<li>Find more interesting designers Blogs to follow</li>
<li>Add my Twitter account to my Blog page</li>
<li>Add more photographs of my own work</li>
<li>BLOG more!</li>
</ul>5 book (linked to design studies) I will look into:<br />
<ul><li>Blink by Malcolm Gladwell. This book looks into why spontaneous designs can be the best of ones. Compared to long thought out processed ideas.</li>
<li>Design Thinking by Thomas Lockwood. This book looks into design for innovation, service design and meaningful customer experiences. It looks interesting because it is full of case studies giving examples. </li>
<li>I miss my pencil by Martine Bone and Kara Johnson.This unusual book looks into the journey of a designer. It's not about the final product, the process or the design legacy but the communication in modern day's like today... In order to achieve success. </li>
<li>Outliners: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell. "Outliners" is again about the process and factors of becoming successful in what you do and how you cannot do it alone.</li>
<li>In the bubble: Designing in a complex world by John Thackara. "In the Bubble" focuses on why people are becoming so obsessed in modern day with technology and just "stuff". Thackara describes a transformation that is taking place.</li>
</ul>5 designers I will try to get in contact with:<br />
<ul><li>Egle Petrauskaite. Egle graduated at Duncan of Jordanstone with a Textile degree in 2008. She is now based in London where she takes on Projects. Although she specialises mainly in Print, It is her drawing technique that I was drawn to.</li>
<li>Joyce Forsyth - Scottish knitwear designer (Based in Edinburgh). Joyce has her own shop on the Royal Mile, Edinburgh which is very handy for me to visit. I love her fantastic choice of bold, exciting colour in her knit pieces.</li>
<li>Patricia Brown. Brown specialises in crochet, felt making and knitting but for absolutely everything... ranging from installations, fashion accessories and exhibition pieces. Some of her pieces are sea-like themed which is the theme I chose for my self motivated project, so it would be interesting to see her pieces. </li>
<li>Catriona McLaughlin (Wildcat designs).. Another interesting young knitwear designer who specialises in a lot of different areas. Her pieces are dainty and work intriguing. </li>
<li>Kate Samphier. Kate Samphier is a contemporary textile designer specialising in the design and creation of knitted accessories for women, babies and the home. Her scarfs for example are handmade, beautiful and soft.</li>
</ul>jwhite53http://www.blogger.com/profile/04843172515693432920noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5080100068489786205.post-49745874763284490792011-03-20T11:37:00.000-07:002011-03-20T11:37:21.295-07:00Assignment 4 - Interviews, but not as we know them.In assignment three we went to the bingo and watched how people act and interact in a certain environment but in this assignment we are the one's who have to interact with people through the form of an interview. I decided to chose the question: "How have stundents' dress sense changed this they left home?". Mainly because i know that my dress sense has changed and I feel it is a question where younger people can relate to. <br />
After I chose my topic, I created a mind map on dress sense in students and if it has changed. A lot of different factors can affect someones dress sense, ranging from: budget, the course they study, upbringing etc. <br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We are not looking for statistics but descriptions and explanations from the people being interviewed. The questions i decided to work from are: 1) Has your dress sense changed? How? 2) What influences your dress sense? 3) Does money affect your style? 4) What course do you study?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The people I interviewed are all students at Dundee University and all do different courses. The majority of people i asked are a friends flatmate who I do not know well. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">There are three main types of interview's: 1. Structured - following a set list of questions 2. Semi-structured - you follow a plan but can deviate to follow up on interesting comments 3. Unstructured - Informal and basically making it up as you go along. We have been asked to follow along a semi-structured interview. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The first person I asked was a male, 19 and studies politics. He said that his style of clothing hasn't changed at all but budget does come into affect. Having a year out allowed him to work and have more disposable money but now that he has to be more independent and cover costs for food etc, he cannot go clothes shopping often. Nothing really influences his choice of style and he said that if he sees something he likes he just gets it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The second person was male, 19 and studies business. He said his style of clothes hadn't changed either but he has a lot more "casual" and "comfy" clothing because he has his own flat, he likes to laze about, especially since his course is more theoretical and completed on a laptop. He says that the people around him influence his choice of clothing but again money is tight so barely ever goes clothes shopping.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The third was a female, 19 and studies psychology. This girl said that her style hadn't changed much either but she does go shopping a lot more due to the fact the high street is on her doorstep and she is more independent being away from home. The only thing that has changed is she has more " going out clothes", again being away from home and living an active social life. The things that influence her style is magazine trends and what the other people around her are wearing.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The fourth person i interviewed was 20 and studies animation. In contrast to the other she said her style changed quite a lot in first year at art school. She said that because she is in Uni a lot she like to be comfortable and doesn't really care too much about her image when going about the Campus. As the same as me she used to wear jeans quite a lot casually but now prefers a skirt and tights mainly for comfort reasons. The people the influence her are her friends and noticing what other people are wearing around the art school.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Female, 18 and studies Anatomy. This student is only in first year and says that her style of clothing hasn't changed one bit. She is more style of comfort and likes to make an effort when going out to lectures etc. She doesn't get too dressed up for going out though. Her parents still give her quite a bit of money so she buys the latest trends. Everything around her influences her dress sense, friends, magazines, celebrities. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The sixth person i interviewed was female, 20 and studies Law. Her dress sense hasn't changed either. The only thing that has changed is as she has a more active social life, she a lot more " going out " clothes too. She said that she has her own style and nothing really influences her that much. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And the last person I chose to interview was male, 21 and studies sports science. He said that his style hadn't changed at all and doesn't ever go shopping. Simple because he doesn't like it and money is tight so he would rather spend it on socializing and food. But agrees that the friends around him are the people who most influence him.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The conclusion I came to after completed these interviews with different students is that not many people change dress sense but definitely have more ' going out ' clothes because of the increased social life. My dress sense has changed quite a lot since i left home and moved to University, especially at Art school ( a practical course) , where it really is like a class environment again so your constantly around people. Rather than jeans I also prefer to wear more comfortable clothing like skirts, leggings, tights etc. The dress sense of more theoretical courses barely change at all because they only attend lectures for a couple hours a day. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Here is a website of ten student essential items of clothing: <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/student/student-life/fashion/ten-student-clothing-essentials-822375.html">http://www.independent.co.uk/student/student-life/fashion/ten-student-clothing-essentials-822375.html</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>jwhite53http://www.blogger.com/profile/04843172515693432920noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5080100068489786205.post-64001726730710826562011-03-11T05:12:00.000-08:002011-03-11T05:12:38.365-08:00Seminar! 10.03.2011Every fortnight we meet up with a design studies tutor to discuss the weeks assignment and how we all got on - and if we need any help!. As our last tutor Lesley McGee is moving to Wales, we have two new seminar leaders: Lisa MacLean and Kate Pickering. Lisa McLean graduated with a Masters in Design at Duncan of Jordanstone and is is co-organiser of JUDEmagazine. It was weird having a seminar with Kate Pickering because we received a lecture from her a couple of weeks ago and it was like sitting next to someone famous! They were both really down to earth, up for a chat and helpful! Instead of sitting and chatting we got separated into groups and were asked to design a product for something we noticed in assignment 3 - Design safari. It was a good laugh but at the same time made us realise that we do both textile design and DESIGN STUDIES... we can go onto designing anything we want and don't need to stick within our chosen discipline. As four of my friends and I went to the bingo the week before we decided to design more of an event! Looking around the Bingo hall, we noticed a lot of the older generation sitting alone. They had all their pens lined up ready for the game to begin, which let us know that they were definately locals there! So why sit alone?! We came up with the idea of dating bingo.. A normal game of bingo would be played and player would move around and play contability bingo, marker the person across from them out of 10. At the end, the players who have matched each other win a meal for two!. <br />
We also chatted about our next assignment: Interviews: but not as we know.<br />
This assignment asks us to interact with people in the form of an interview. We carry out the interviews by ourselves but can also work thro brainstorming and interpretation ( look at sevice design tools).<br />
We have to chose a topic which we have looked into, since summer e.g. What do people treasure?, What jewellery means to people?, Do magazines influence you?, Has your dress sense changed since you came to university?, etc.<br />
Although I'm not 100% sure what one I'll be picking yet, I like the look of the dress sense one because I can interact with younger people. I'm not a very confident person at all, so this assignment shall definately be a challenge to me! Hopefully I can find some friends of a friend to help me with my assignment :)jwhite53http://www.blogger.com/profile/04843172515693432920noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5080100068489786205.post-90047815812993809802011-03-06T05:57:00.000-08:002011-03-06T05:57:30.056-08:00BINGO photo's!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha1bPUVYjslzZFdGvpw639VuobMtWN6sa3dGUV22Qic73tgoEin0-ziC3rudcZTrLMj3nCeZ4KkeDAsLXKxVO4bw0ZkUOkX5ygUMmmxbjDXY12uWzdJ8ocmKYA2KegX2V0_EprU4AYEp8/s1600/SDC11370.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" l6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha1bPUVYjslzZFdGvpw639VuobMtWN6sa3dGUV22Qic73tgoEin0-ziC3rudcZTrLMj3nCeZ4KkeDAsLXKxVO4bw0ZkUOkX5ygUMmmxbjDXY12uWzdJ8ocmKYA2KegX2V0_EprU4AYEp8/s320/SDC11370.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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Firstly we were given the choice to go to the casion, a football match or the bingo. All places which i would find very intimidating (especially at a younger age).<br />
There are many different tools when doing design research. A number of them are listed on this website: <a href="http://www.servicedesigntools.org/">http://www.servicedesigntools.org/</a>.<br />
There are two which stood out to me: Mind-mapping and Storyboards.<br />
I find mind-mapping most useful at the beginning of a project where it helps me look at all area's of the chosen subject. The lines and arrow connecting words, show the system of thoughts i go through, around the starting point. Storyboards I use at the end of a project to show the journey i went through, through a sequence of pictures and drawings.<br />
We decided to go to the bingo on a Thursday night as it was free night! We actually had a really good time and never spent a penny (although none of us won). <br />
When we first arrived the old man at the door could clearly tell none of us had been before and took the opportunity to come over and act like he was older and knew better and id'd us all right away. Once we filled out our membership forms and were handed our cards we walked out of the foyer and into the main building. At the next desk we were handed a book of ten free games and a FREE BINGO PEN! As we arrived late for the first game the hall was deadly quiet when we walked it. I was shocked at just how large the hall was. I didn't really know what to expect to be honest. A small helpful, cheery woman met us at the door and went away to find us a large table. She was so chatty and seemed excited that it was our first time to the bingo. The most surreal experience was just walking in! Even though the game had started people still found the time to look up and glare at us. It was like they knew that it was our first time and didn't like the fact we were a lot younger. <br />
When we were seated the woman stayed with us through two games to make sure we knew what we were doign and if we had any queries, which was really helpful. Even just after one game, I could feel myself getting more and more competitive at wanting to win.<br />
It was like a game was split into three parts: the quiet stage when the numbers are being called out, when you get a fright because someone has shouted out 'bingo!', and the stage when every groans because they have been so close to winning. I also noticed the sighing got louder when there was more money involved. <br />
Although no one actually spoke to us. I noticed that the more middle-aged people were those who stared the most and seemed annoyed we were there and new to it. An old man sat two table across from us would hold and and point to the game next being played, enjoying the fact that he was teaching us. It must of been pretty obvious we didn't really know what we were doing. <br />
There was an interval between the two free games tat was filled with smaller games of bingo were it was "only" 50p or £1 to play and they seemed to rattle off the numbers more quickly. <br />
Glancing around and the players it definately looked likes they had ALL been before. There wern't many big groups or couples playing but mainly people in two's or by themselves. To the left was a large older man sitting by himself, behind us were two old men, a couple older woman playing alone, a old man playing alone, and two or three sets of middle aged women. I got the impression that the older generation playing alone were perhaps windowed. All the old women seemed to dress the exact same: wearing bright cardigens, gold earings and rather than drinking tea, were nibbling on crisps and drinking fizzy juice. <br />
The nice woman who helped us came back over at the end of the game and handed us all "five pound off vouchers for our next game, from the manager". I'm not sure if the woman was glad to see young people playing and wanted us to come back or if it was to try and get us back to spend out money... even though we spent none. She did seem really genuine though. When leaving through the front door it was like she had spoke to the manager about us and he was chatting to us whilst leaving, asking if we had won anything and to come back soon! Which was really nice too. <br />
Although i have to admit it was quick scary and i did feel uncomfortable for the majority of the game, we all had such a good time (especially for spending no money) and although none of us won, we would like to go back sometime just for the fun of it. <br />
I also decided to take some notes when waiting for my train home on Friday. Even though i was with someone at the time and have been there many times before, i don't know why but i still find it quite an intimidating place. Everyone who is normally by themselves and sitting waiting on a train coming like to have a stare at new people coming in. I can't really say anything because i do the exact same thing. When we finally got on the train, we were sat next to perhaps a travelling business man, alone, sitting with his ipod in ( the ticket man actually had to tap him on the shoulder for his ticket), two teenage girls who were chatting quite loudly, so everyone could hear what they were saying, an older woman who was sleeping on and off and a family who were constantly keeping the little boy amused by pointing stuff out through the window. I don't really find trains very relaxing. I'm not sure if it's a younger generation thing but I'm always petrified i miss my stop. I also like to have my ticket out and ready instead of rumaging through my bag when the ticket officer asks for it. The week before i got the train back to Dundee alone and i really don't enjoy it! I feel like people are staring at you even more and I'm scared that my music is turned up too loudly so people can hear it. <br />
Although of course you know when you are feeling uncomfortable but you never really think about the people around you and trying to look closer into "I wonder why they are here? Or where are they going? Have they been before?"jwhite53http://www.blogger.com/profile/04843172515693432920noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5080100068489786205.post-21737964575912131352011-02-20T13:38:00.000-08:002011-02-20T13:38:46.224-08:00Semester 2 - Assignment 2, What Images Mean?<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Semester Two – Assignment 2... What images mean?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;">In this assignment, we were asked in groups to find out if there is a link between the imagine that is being used in an advertisement and the thing that is being advertised.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Firstly, we were asked to read through the chapter the “Rhetoric of the image” by Roland Barthes. Barthes discusses the important concept about the relationship between images and text. He also subjects an advertisement to a semiotic analysis. In the essay Barthes suggests there are three types of message in advertisement: the text, the symbolic image and the non- symbolic image. Barthes comes to the conclusion that images have more than one meaning and once one meaning is discovered it ‘unlocks’ another – finding more out about the image. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We will test this theory through an experiment. We chose four advertisement images/posters and then removed any logos or text off of them. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;">This assignment offers an opportunity to try an experiment to test the concept of <strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">polysemy.</span></strong> Firstly, we asked the people how the image made them feel, or what they made them think about (they should be describing the image, not guesses what they are advertising just yet. It is the way they interpret the images that it important). After noting down their answers, we finally asked them what they thought the poster was trying to advertise!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Person One: The first person I asked studies Politics at University and when first asked how the image made him feel or if it was telling a story, what would it be telling? He explained the first three images in a political state and in the last picture linked speed and drug taking together. When I explained that each image was an advertisement for an object or company he managed to guess all correct (what was being sold), apart from the last time (PSP advertisement). </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Person Two: This person was along the correct lines, with every image (apart from image four again), when trying to explain the image being shown. After I told her the images were part of an advertisement, she got all correct again apart from image four.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Person 3: This person realised quickly that the images were linked to advertisement after seeing image 2. Getting the deforestation of South America correct first time and also new in image four that it was advertising something but when it came to saying what the advertisements were, he only got the deforestation and permanent marker pen correct.</span></div><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">From carrying out this experiment, I gained the knowledge that there is a big relationship between the understanding of an image and if text is present or not. I completely understand now that an image has so many different meanings and when telling a person a small bit more information on the image, it unlocks another meaning of it. All three people I questioned were able to guess a lot easier what the image/poster was trying to convey, after finding out it was an advertisement. This proving that text in advertisement is hugely important.</span>jwhite53http://www.blogger.com/profile/04843172515693432920noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5080100068489786205.post-6519483088391184702011-02-18T05:12:00.000-08:002011-02-21T12:18:34.914-08:00Lauren Currie Lecture - Red Jotter.Lauren Currie is a Product design graduate from Duncan of Jordanstone Art College, Dundee. She fully graduated in 2009 with a masters degree in Design. The lecture was split into three parts: 1) Studio Unbound - helping you design your own network 2) What are you going to do when your graduate? 3) What Lauren does for a living - Service Design. <br />
Although with her knowledge of product design, Lauren specialises in Service Design. This considers planning the infrastructure and communication of a service and trying to improve its quality: ranging from altering services such as the NHS, Education, Policing and Charities companies into making the service work better. Socially focused into making the world better!. <br />
She is now in business with her co-partner Sarah Drummond who graduated from Glasgow School of Art. Snook is the name of their company, and it is now well known and very successful.<br />
I feel like the main point conveyed in the lecture today was to emphasise clearly to everyone, to get ourselves out there in as many places as possible (especially early in our university life), to boost our advantage of having a successful career when we graduate.<br />
Lauren spoke about how she came about becoming so popular by acting confident and believing from the beginning in her work and ideas. I am not afraid to say that today's lecture was the most thought provoking and useful lecture i have ever sat through. I think when it is a younger speaker who has recently went through the same things we are going through right now, it helps get the message through clearer that we can do anything we want to, if we try! I came out of the lecture theatre thinking that I'm better making mistakes now and learning from them, than sitting back and not doing anything at all. I have to admit that I'm not a very confident person but after hearing Laurens speech it has definitely helped boost my confidence because at the end of the day everyone is in the same boat! I just need to think: What makes me a better textile designer?jwhite53http://www.blogger.com/profile/04843172515693432920noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5080100068489786205.post-37531156900540308622011-02-07T14:10:00.000-08:002011-02-07T14:10:07.475-08:00Semester 2 Project!Trend Forecasting!:)<br />
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For this project we were asked to research what trend forecasting is, pick a trend, research all about it then produce out own samples (either in knit or print). <br />
Fashion trend forecasting resources help predict trends in the fashion industry. They go by seasons and are released 18 months in advance! They should provide a clear and concise message into the lifestyle and culture of that trend and each trend should contain a colour palette to go with it as well. <br />
I decided to look into 'Relaxing: the beauty of the natural' - Summer 2011. It could contain:<br />
<ul><li>colour which are fresh and intuitive </li>
<li>glowing and healthy tones</li>
<li>unfussy - respect to nature</li>
<li>basic, uncomplicated and basic</li>
</ul>My colour palette should be earthy, organic, fresh, clean cut and neutral.<br />
Mixed media will contain, weaving, dry plants, crispy, rugged, textural and stitched materials<br />
My garments should be, simple, loose, unstructured, airy, unfitted and uncomplicated.<br />
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For a source of Primary drawing I am planning to look at fields at different times of days and the natural beauty of them and how I could translate that picturesque view into a textile.<br />
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I am seriously looking forward to getting stuck into this project rather than last semester, as we are all doing our different trends. I enjoy researching artists, designers and ways in which they can inspire my own work!jwhite53http://www.blogger.com/profile/04843172515693432920noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5080100068489786205.post-65234413000374115722011-02-07T13:48:00.000-08:002011-02-07T13:48:20.262-08:00Lecture 04.02.2011On Friday, we had a very insightful lecture from Kate Pickering and Fraser Bruce. <br />
Kate Pickering is a graduate of Jewellery and Metal Design at Duncan of Jordanstone and completed a Masters of Design at Dundee in 2009. I feel as though I could relate to her as she was in the same position as me not that long ago. I enjoyed hearing about her determination to get to where she wanted in life and how he eventually got it. She got to where she is now by taking risks and I feel that that is what I really need to do in my Textile course. Just really go for it because that's all i can do, in succeeding. Kate has now set up her own intuitive, made to help Jewellery students into what they can expect and aim for once they have graduated and help the creators get into business. Personally, I think its a great idea as I still don't seem 100% sure on what career I'm interesting in pursuing and how to get there. <br />
Kate worked with Fraser Bruce in her Masters degree and got the chance to work with Deutsche Telekom in creating new designs for them.<br />
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Things I have taken away from this lecture: I need to be able to pitch myself and It's not all about the final product but the process to it!!!jwhite53http://www.blogger.com/profile/04843172515693432920noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5080100068489786205.post-55692593769225567682011-02-02T05:19:00.000-08:002011-02-02T05:19:25.924-08:00Snoop Assignment One<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaThyphenhyphenvmu0XNeH7Zp42RXW8uyNaYS01rzkp9_fLcP4lEp7dESe7biDs0Z-u9GAcrQtbJXt3F-VbMC2Ebvr8kvnPNhci8uTX-5spCQz5lSGAwWSaa4P3bp0TJRH6xGCuk9eCFkkXOtJ9NWE/s1600/SHONA1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" s5="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaThyphenhyphenvmu0XNeH7Zp42RXW8uyNaYS01rzkp9_fLcP4lEp7dESe7biDs0Z-u9GAcrQtbJXt3F-VbMC2Ebvr8kvnPNhci8uTX-5spCQz5lSGAwWSaa4P3bp0TJRH6xGCuk9eCFkkXOtJ9NWE/s320/SHONA1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">To begin with we were asked to read the book “Snoop” by Sam Gosling, over the Christmas holidays. To be a hundred percent honest, I was really excited to read this book, but once I got into it I have to say I was a little bit disappointed. It felt as though the author was repeating himself and a lot of it was just common knowledge. Although I have to say some parts were highly interesting. I enjoyed the part of the book where Gosling speaks about the way people walk and how you can distinguish what a person’s personality can be like. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Although I never really enjoyed the book as a whole, it did help me a little bit when completing Assignment One. We were asked to swap photographs of either pictures of us between the age of 13-20 or photo’s of our room/house, with a person we never knew.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The girl I had sent pictures of both, so it made it a little easier to find out what she’s like. I have to say I feel I found a lot more stuff out about the girl from her flat, rather than the actual photos of her. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Even though I already knew Shona did Interior & Environmental Design at Uni. There were a lot of clues both about her and her flat that assured me. The first area of creativity I noticed was in a picture of Shona at Halloween, when she was 18. It was a handmade cardboard box made up perfectly to look like to little ghosts. I just think it shows her artistic nature because she has went into a lot of effort to dress up rather than buying an outfit. In a picture of Shona at another age, she has a different hairstyle, where it is both blonde and black. The contrasting colours are every bold and suggest to me that she likes to stand out from the crowd and perhaps changes her image quite often to look unoriginal. In almost all the photographs over the years, she pulls funny faces/poses in them. I get the impression that Shona is quite an outgoing person and is confident in herself and always up for a laugh. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">When going through the photographs of Shonas’ flat I have to say it is one of the most organised, clean and arranged flat I have ever seen!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is actually no clutter at all. One of the wall art pieces said “but I always say, one’s a company, two’s a crowd and three’s a party”. I think Shona enjoys socializing and gets on well with all types of people in a crowd and meeting new people. She has a lot of wall art around the flat! I liked the area where there were blank photo frames that stood out from the purple painted wall. I get the impression she is proud of her flat and enjoys making it her own. It has a modern creative around it and looks very welcoming. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Unless the flat has been arranged for the photographs being taken, I would say that Shona has a small bit of OCD. I noticed this more when looking at the picture of her wardrobe. Tops were on white hangers on the left side and trousers were on black hangers on the other side. The final bit I noticed was a picture of a Banana by Andy Warhol, which Shona also had a tattoo of on the top of her back. She obviously enjoys art and to go to the extreme of tattooing it onto her body, gives me the impression that she isn’t afraid to say what she feels and it overall a confident and bold person.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I met up with Shona on Monday night in the Union and discussed what we had written about each other. I have to say it was crazy what the outcome was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I really thought that some of the stuff wouldn’t be true but once I thought about the things she imagined they were actually all true and she felt the same about what I said about her. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I looked up The Johari Window which is: “<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_psychology" title="Cognitive psychology"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">cognitive psychological</span></a> tool created by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joseph_Luft&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Joseph Luft (page does not exist)"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Joseph Luft</span></a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Harry_Ingham_(psychologist)&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Harry Ingham (psychologist) (page does not exist)"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Harry Ingham</span></a> in 1955<sup id="cite_ref-date_0-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johari_window#cite_note-date-0"><span style="color: blue;">[1]</span></a></sup> in the United States, used to help people better understand their interpersonal <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication" title="Communication"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">communication</span></a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpersonal_relationship" title="Interpersonal relationship"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">relationships</span></a>. It is used primarily in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-help" title="Self-help"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">self-help</span></a> groups and corporate settings as a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heuristic" title="Heuristic"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">heuristic</span></a> exercise”.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">It is a table split into four different quadrants: Open Hidden, Blind Spot and Unknown. </span></span></div><span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Open</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">: Adjectives that are selected by both the participant and his or her peers are placed into the <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Open</span> quadrant. This quadrant represents traits of the subjects that both they and their peers are aware of.</span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Hidden</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">: Adjectives selected only by subjects, but not by any of their peers, are placed into the <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Hidden</span> quadrant, representing information about them their peers are unaware of. It is then up to the subject to disclose this information or not.</span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Blind Spot</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">: Adjectives that are not selected by subjects but only by their peers are placed into the <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Blind Spot</span> quadrant. These represent information that the subject is not aware of, but others are, and they can decide whether and how to inform the individual about these "<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">blind spots</span>".</span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Unknown</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">: Adjectives that were not selected by either subjects or their peers remain in the <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Unknown</span> quadrant, representing the participant's behaviors or motives that were not recognized by anyone participating. This may be because they do not apply or because there is collective ignorance of the existence of these traits</span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I feel this table helped me a little bit in realizing my and peoples traits and how you do not realised things about you until you are told by somebody else. For example Shona could guess that I was an image conscious person and that I like to have clothes matching etc. Which I only really realised once she told me.</span>jwhite53http://www.blogger.com/profile/04843172515693432920noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5080100068489786205.post-69633539293520746382011-01-21T14:52:00.001-08:002011-01-21T14:52:36.578-08:00first lecture of 2011!I found today's lecture very interesting and it really made me think! It was all about "taste" and how peoples "taste" can then lead to a trend. Johnathan asked people to stand up if they were wearing a hoody, a scarf, and people who had blonde hair and I found it weird how people wearing the same clothing clustered together. At first I didn't see where he was coming from... But thinking into a bit more, it made me realise just how much trend plays a large part in my life. For example before I came to university I seemed to always wear jeans. But after only about a month my clothing style changed to wearing more skirts, shorts, tights and leggings! I think I only wore jeans on three occasions last year! I found the same with my music taste. I came to university with a very varied collection but after meeting my boyfriend I feel as though I appreciate dance music more. I think having something in common with someone can make you feel a lot closer to them.jwhite53http://www.blogger.com/profile/04843172515693432920noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5080100068489786205.post-76378365913660861642010-12-13T06:46:00.000-08:002010-12-13T06:46:55.179-08:00Assignment 4 - Reading and Reviewing<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">“Crime, Shame and Reintegration” by John Braithwaite is book I looked into which offers a perspective of crime and punishment in the US. Braithwaite believes that the current system of dealing with crime and punishment today is not effective, due to people using the shaming technique incorrectly. The book also looks into the psychology behind criminal behaviour and the reasons why people do it or in some cases do not participate. The area of the book I looked into was Chapter Two: The Dominant Theoretical Traditions. This Chapter is split up into five parts/theories: Labeling, Subcultural, Control, Opportunity and Learning.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The theory I chose to look into in more detail was “The Control Theory” because I felt it was the most interesting of the theories to read into, as it speaks more about the beginning of criminal behaviour at an early age. The main purpose of this article is to convey the reason why people react the way they do when subject to criminal activity or participating in criminal activity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Especially in young children today, individuals are often fascinated to engage in crime to receive behavioural attention. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The key question the author is addressing is not “Why did he/she do it?”, but “Why did he/she <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">not </i>do it?” Humans will seek a reward after committing a crime... looking for some sort of attention, unless they are put in check early or in other ways controlled!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The most important information I found in this article was about “social bonding” and its connection to delinquency control.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Braithwaite believes that there are four aspects of social bond: attachment, commitment, involvement and belief. They can see criminal activity linking into the social bond people or children have with their family, school and occasionally to the church. Evidence proves that if people have a strong attachment with family they are often less likely to engage in crime, especially in the attachment of juveniles with parents. The author gains this evidence from (Glueck and Glueck, 1950). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Education on the other hand, creates an ever stronger bond with criminal activity due to the point that “delinquency to be more the cause than a consequence of school attachment”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is a connection between poor school performance, not enjoying school, feeling less attached to school and low aspirations, that can all can lead to bad behaviour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Criminals themselves could even be explained by procedures like negative social labelling. Negative social labelling can be successful in dropping crime rates as it works by stigmatizing a bad name/label on the person, developing into a negative self-image. This is why it works especially well on young children who are strongly bonded to their family and school . Attachment is an essential but not a satisfactory condition for effective social control. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The main conclusion in this article is that attachment can reduce crime rates when people sufficiently make use of shaming and take into consideration the process of social control!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Reintegrative shaming works especially well in the social bonding within Culture, as it is looked so intensely at. Culture can use a powerful and immediate control against both corporate crimes as well as minor petty crimes, in preventing but also reducing crime rates. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The key concept we need to establish in this article is that there is a link between all the theories and by these concepts the author means the theory of reintegrative shaming... The author presents favourably the point of view that each theory complements each other in order to work successfully in crime reduction.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Journal I looked into was called “</span><a href="http://cross-search.dundee.ac.uk/V/D2DVRUCBTSL4PTNFJBES3HJMK4TXLRTCUG3TDXSBLH9TD9QMXN-91490?func=eshelf-2&short-format=002&set_entry=000004&format=999" title="Neighbourhood design and fear of crime: A social-ecological examination of the correlates of residents' fear in new suburban housing developments"><span style="color: windowtext; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Neighbourhood design and fear of crime: A social-ecological examination of the correlates of residents' fear in new suburban housing developments</span></span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">” by Sarah Foster, Billie Giles-Corti and Matthew Knuiman.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The study explores the connection between neighborhood design and residents’ fear of crime in suburban housing areas. Both primary reports and second hand data were collected as part of a project called: the RESIDential Environments (RESIDE) Project. They came to the conclusion that people feel a lot safer in a pedestrian area with a higher density and more accessible space to get to shops etc. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The article speaks about fear and how it creates anxiety and can affect someone’s mental health. For example small things such as litter, vandalism and graffiti can all heighten insecurities and prevent residents from wanting to go out into their own neighborhood and socialise. The key question the author is asking, is if housing and street design can reduce both crime and residents fear at one time. She goes about answering this question by looking into different methods such as: Individual Characteristics, Neighborhood Perceptions, Social Environment and Physical Environment to try and reduce crime and anxiety. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The RESIDential Environments (RESIDE) Project created a study of the “impact of urban design on health in Perth, Western Australia. They were asked to complete a questionnaire before they moved into their new home and another two after they were relocated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The most important information in this article and the results of the question airing were as followed:</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';">“</span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The results confirmed some well-established associations between demographic characteristics and fear of crime: women and older adults were significantly more fearful; and participants with a university education or higher household income had lower odds of being fearful. All subsequent analyses adjusted for these demographic variables; and although not presented in the tables, the observed associations persisted.”</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The main conclusion the author came to is that there is definitely a direct connection between neighborhood planning and residents fearfulness. Not only is it just one or two characteristics that provide someone to feel safe but the efficient effect of land-planning and housing design. Residents prefer areas where there is a presence of district guardians, areas which encourage people to come of their homes and into public realms and well facilitated pedestrian movement space on the streets. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Linking back to the “The Broken Windows Theory” this article is similar in suggesting that if areas of wider land space are created, the less crime that is going to be produced and the level of resident’s fearfulness is reduced. Same as if an area has the beginning of windows being broken, vandals will see this area as being a place excellent for disrupting even more and the criminal behaviour is continued. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fear of crime has been associated with social withdrawal, and poorer mental and physical health (Stafford 2007). The main point of view of this article and the statistical findings, support the argument that a more walkable neighborhood is a place where the residents living there feel a lot safer. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">“Crime, Shame and Reintegration” and “</span><a href="http://cross-search.dundee.ac.uk/V/D2DVRUCBTSL4PTNFJBES3HJMK4TXLRTCUG3TDXSBLH9TD9QMXN-91490?func=eshelf-2&short-format=002&set_entry=000004&format=999" title="Neighbourhood design and fear of crime: A social-ecological examination of the correlates of residents' fear in new suburban housing developments"><span style="color: windowtext; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Neighbourhood design and fear of crime: A social-ecological examination of the correlates of residents' fear in new suburban housing developments</span></span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">”, I feel are linked in many ways but in others contrast. The book by John Braithwaite talks about the development of crime and the psychology behind it. It closely looks into different theories used to stop crime happening... for example the very successful “Shaming” technique which links not to why he/she committed the crime but why he/she did<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> not</i> commit the crime. On the other hand the article “Neighbourhood design and fear of crime” looks only into the environmental factors which both can influence crime to occur and increase residents fear of crime. Although the book and article are completely different, each of them refers to mental and psychological feelings behind crime. “Crime, shame and reintegration” believes that shaming someone from a stigmatism is the way of control to reduce criminal activities at an earlier stage. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">“Reintegrative shaming keeps most of us on the anti-criminal side of the tipping point most of the time” page 31</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">One of three authors of the article I looked at, Sarah Foster believes that if new suburban housing areas are built with the consideration of, high density street design and an overall friendlier looking environment , the less likely criminal activity and bad behaviour will occur, making the neighborhood feel at ease and comfortable living in their own homes. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Another article I shortly looked into in the last assignment was: Residents' Efforts at Neighborhood Stabilization: Facing the Challenges of Inner-City Neighborhoods by Patrick G. Donnelly and Theo J. Majka. This paper also examines the response of residents living in an inner city neighborhood and their views on the sudden increase of crime, drugs and disorderly behaviour. Rather than residents moving away from the crime, they decided to do something about it as a community. Working as a group, city officials were more likely look at their case being more serious as a target area for criminal behaviour and actions would therefore be put in place a lot quicker, to provide a more enjoyable place for residents to live. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Both articles speak as though there should always be a reason behind crime, whether this is the “social bonding” behind a person and their connection to either family, school or culture, whether the correct techniques are being put in place for shaming an individual that what they are doing is wrong, or environmental examples such as redesigning a new suburban area before it is built to get ahead of the game and stop crime before it happens, or whether you work as a team to get the issue sorted, rather than living in fear of your own neighborhood. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I feel that the areas I could look into further is the references Braithwaite has used in his book to prove the points he has spoken, behind successful shaming techniques and theories. I preferred reading “Crime, shame an reintegration” than the other article as I found it more interesting, learning about more the reason why people are committing and the ways of stopping it, rather than a neighborhood side of it. I am curious to look more into the child psychology and ways that schooling deals with bad behaviour before it gets out of control. Although Braithwaite speaks about the social bonding between and juvenile and school, I would definitely like to look into it further. After reading these articles I feel like crime has a lot more simpler reasoning behind it and if caught early, there would be a massive decrease in the mass of bad criminal behaviour today.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><u><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">References Used:</span></span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Braithwaite J, (1989), Crime, Shame and Reintegration, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';">Donnelly, P.G., And Majka, T.J., 1998. </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Residents' Efforts at Neighborhood Stabilization: Facing the Challenges of Inner-City Neighborhoods, Sociological Forum, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp.189-213.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Foster, S. Giles-Corti, B. And Knuiman, M., 2010. Neighbourhood design and fear of crime: A social-ecological examination of the correlates of residents' fear in new suburban housing developments, Health and Place 16: (6) pp. 1156-1165.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Glueck, S. And Glueck E, (1950), Unravelling Juvenile Delinquency, Nw York: The Commonwealth Fund.</span></span></div>jwhite53http://www.blogger.com/profile/04843172515693432920noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5080100068489786205.post-62258993973007406902010-11-22T13:08:00.000-08:002010-11-22T13:08:14.564-08:00Useful Websites!<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>Useful Websites:</strong></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/</span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">http://www.guardian.co.uk/</span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><a href="http://news.sky.com/skynews/"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">http://news.sky.com/skynews/</span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><a href="http://www.newscientist.com/"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">http://www.newscientist.com/</span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><a href="http://www.wired.com/"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">http://www.wired.com/</span></a></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>Useful Textile Design Websites:</strong></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><a href="http://www.knittingindustry.com/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">http://www.knittingindustry.com</span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><a href="http://www.dexigner.com/directory/cat/Textile-Design.html"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">http://www.dexigner.com/directory/cat/Textile-Design.html</span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><a href="http://www.dsgnwrld.com/"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">http://www.dsgnwrld.com</span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">http://www.stepinsidedesign.com/</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><a href="http://www.texprint.org.uk/index.php/designers/"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">http://www.texprint.org.uk/index.php/designers/</span></a></div>jwhite53http://www.blogger.com/profile/04843172515693432920noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5080100068489786205.post-1260913288165752332010-11-22T13:07:00.000-08:002010-12-08T07:12:00.512-08:00Assignment 3 - Looking up, Looking down<span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><u><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Assessment 3! </span></span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><u><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Design against Crime / Crime Prevention</span></span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';">In assignment two I looked at the chapter: The Power of Context which focuses mainly on Crime in New York City Subways. I then decided to look more into detail about how design can prevent crime and vandalism in areas. For example re-vamping council housing estates, to make a more pleasant and safer living environment for residents. This links to “The Broken Windows Theory” and how it is physiologically proven that this theory reduces crime rates.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';">This book successfully links to my topic to reduce crime rates, as it focuses on the criminological theory. It looks into both professional crimes such as burglary down to the smallest of petty crime. Braithwaite believes that it is down to shaming which make some societies have higher crime rates than others. Shaming can work well in certain areas such as if you act with respect towards the offender, you can form a sort of social control over them and hopefully shame them into what they are doing is wrong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But shaming can also be seen as counterproductive, meaning that crime problems worsening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think this book is very successful as I can see this theory being put into other fields.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';">High crime rates in the community area create a great burden against local residents who cannot afford to move area. Tackling crime control should definitely be looked more into by policymakers. Crime includes: vandalism, graffiti, violence, theft and drugs. When these areas are tackled greater opportunities open up for the neighborhood. The journal looks into how the statistics of crime rates fluctuate all the time and how policies and services play an important role in crime prevention.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';">Donnelly, P.G., And Majka, T.J., 1998. </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Residents' Efforts at Neighborhood Stabilization: Facing the Challenges of Inner-City Neighborhoods, Sociological Forum, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp.189-213.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">This paper examines the response of residents, based on the sudden increase of disorder, drugs and crime. It looks at the bravery of residents of the neighborhood and how they all grouped together in developing a stabilized plan to reduce crime in their estate. The journal encourages participation, activism and commitment of residents and proves the social movement, by successful organizations</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Foster, S. Giles-Corti, B. And Knuiman, M., 2010. Neighbourhood design and fear of crime: A social-ecological examination of the correlates of residents' fear in new suburban housing developments, Health and Place 16: (6) pp. 1156-1165.</span></strong></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The study explores the connection between neighborhood design and residents’ fear of crime in suburban housing areas. Both primary reports and second hand data were collected as part of a project called: the RESIDential Environments (RESIDE) Project. They came to the conclusion that people feel a lot safer in a pedestrian area with a higher density and more accessible space to get to shops etc. The article speaks about fear and how it creates anxiety and can affect someone’s mental health. For example small things such as litter, vandalism and graffiti can all heighten insecurities and prevent residents from wanting to go out into their own neighborhood and socialise</span></span></em></span></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';">Milke, M., 1997. Neatness RULES! , Alberta Report / Newsmagazine 06/30/97, Vol. 24 Issue 29, pp.11.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';">This paper focuses on erasing graffiti and the hopes that it reduces youth crime. Naming graffiti artists “taggers”, Milke believed that “taggers” shouldn’t be allowed to admire their work and it should be removed as soon as possible. The area of crime prevention in the journal also links back to the “Broken windows theory” - buy scrubbing areas clean of graffiti and creating a nicer environment, people will avoid making it dirty again. By doing this in New York Subways, crime rates dropped by 64%. </span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Paul Stollard. (1991). Crime Prevention Through Housing Design. <i>London: New York: E & FNSpon</i>, p.90.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';">This very interesting book has a lot to do with what i am looking into. It is really specifically made for architects and housing managers on designing to deter crime. Even though different estates have different problems and the ways to solve them... the process which leads to solutions being made is the same. Stollard reviews different theories to prevent crime through design. It also shows how to apply these solutions in the design process.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';">This observation, speaks mainly of the importance of tackling crime and how that looking closely into people’s characteristics and behaviours, can prevent crime escalating into something more serious. As I am focusing on how design can reduce crime rates, this paper seemed very successful in helping me as it mentions manly examples where this has work e.g. cleaning up graffiti, unemployment, homelessness, better societies and education for youth. It also looks into the important issue of how crime is linked to politics!</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';">“It is important assess the effectiveness of the full range of surveillance measures that are used to prevent crime in public places.”</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';">CCTV and better street lighting are just some of the simple things that could be done to reduce crime rates. “Surveillance measures” also include security guards, place mangers and better street spacing. There is evidence shown in this paper that by improving these areas, crime can be reduced. This journal can really help me in my studies by reducing crime by design!</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"></div>jwhite53http://www.blogger.com/profile/04843172515693432920noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5080100068489786205.post-21541467906448416792010-11-15T13:40:00.000-08:002010-11-15T13:40:53.038-08:00Rug tackling the issue of Global Warming<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN0IXlhcbeDBvdca-ZY-VMqy7ZwAB7uVhjFPvWWE_fVhhg9UWN2zgYYbsXGWwft5TTh6UjZe3oyeh5DNJ-h37NNidlKnMAP7D2TxL8hb6VbH9rDemPc7fR2Sax9-wJ3-RMyFegc58BRDg/s1600/llll.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="94" px="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN0IXlhcbeDBvdca-ZY-VMqy7ZwAB7uVhjFPvWWE_fVhhg9UWN2zgYYbsXGWwft5TTh6UjZe3oyeh5DNJ-h37NNidlKnMAP7D2TxL8hb6VbH9rDemPc7fR2Sax9-wJ3-RMyFegc58BRDg/s320/llll.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>I was looking around the website <a href="http://www.dsgnwrld.com/">www.dsgnwrld.com</a> when i came across this extraordinary rug, in which Mexican design collective NEL have designed for Spanish textile brand Nanimarquina.<br />
Nanimarquina find that Global Warming today is being overshadowed by politicised discussions. It has been pushed off the front page of newspapers and people are starting to forget about climate change.<br />
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The rug has been made to show contrast. The rug is soft and comfortable compared to the topic of climate change which is a tough battle to concur (especially when people are forgetting all about it).<br />
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The rug features a felt polar bear on a small iceberg in a large sea of carpet, especially designed to show how tiny in comparison iceberg habitats are to the ocean.jwhite53http://www.blogger.com/profile/04843172515693432920noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5080100068489786205.post-14625135210541443382010-11-13T09:20:00.000-08:002010-11-13T09:20:05.102-08:00"Craft & Form of Capital " - Hamid Van KotenYesterday we had a lecture from Hamid Van Koten - Who is a training and consultancy at VKconsultants and Lecturer/ Researcher at Dundee University. He graduated from Glasgow school of Art with a degree in product design. <br />
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Hamid Van Koten was trying to get the message across between the difference of Art & Design and Craft. <br />
What is Craft?<br />
Craft started a very long time ago, back in the BC era where people would use only materials such as beads, shells and stone to create products. Pottery also was a large area of craft for example Zuni Potts.<br />
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He talked about architecture in craft and used The Angel of the North in Newcastle and The Sphinxes in both Turkey and Egypt. Were these built as pieces of Art or Architecture?<br />
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<em>"In European decorative art, the sphinx enjoyed a major revival during the </em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance" title="Renaissance"><span style="color: #0645ad;"><em>Renaissance</em></span></a><em>. Later, the sphinx image, something very similar to the original Ancient Egyptian concept, was exported into many other cultures, albeit often interpreted quite differently due to translations of descriptions of the originals and the evolution of the concept in relation to other cultural traditions."</em><br />
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I enjoyed looking at the slide of a lace chair, interior and industrial designer Marcel Wanders created using hardened lace therefore making it a hollow object. <br />
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But my favourite area of the lecture was looking at the group "Cast Off", Who are a social knitting group and encourage people to join them where ever they are. They even managed to create a whole wedding based on knit (even the confetti). <br />
As a textile designer these parts of the lecture stood out to me most because that is what i enjoy learning about. Next week we even go onto a week of knit which I'm highly looking forward too.jwhite53http://www.blogger.com/profile/04843172515693432920noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5080100068489786205.post-31798711328119071232010-11-08T12:07:00.000-08:002010-11-08T12:07:26.849-08:00The Tipping Point Poster!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYHZFEVWelTchi4YhwTx69730bjADGewMeqUzqpYyBDyghuZKCiMMcloMrXwaWcXkXOSfPuPPTtQIRn5-0PL_Z1kMJY0ElqFNWsDm1sqXDiGeJS0u0KnBUXyN1crXIMrQ4IqhOpIj4rZg/s1600/76677_466307056691_526576691_5476112_957625_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" px="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYHZFEVWelTchi4YhwTx69730bjADGewMeqUzqpYyBDyghuZKCiMMcloMrXwaWcXkXOSfPuPPTtQIRn5-0PL_Z1kMJY0ElqFNWsDm1sqXDiGeJS0u0KnBUXyN1crXIMrQ4IqhOpIj4rZg/s320/76677_466307056691_526576691_5476112_957625_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbgf96AzvPU1ubdt43fRQ7tMGmuiidgRkaurQbEgoQ02vQitzSoGorUS9Vq6ExRxmAMgVjE1k1h-5VbHdxo3RtmN1pLGiBkE-lzQpV-L5JR-uaPCJNgEWjGhuFJLE4Mqd8d3lXvJPva8c/s1600/SDC11300.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" px="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbgf96AzvPU1ubdt43fRQ7tMGmuiidgRkaurQbEgoQ02vQitzSoGorUS9Vq6ExRxmAMgVjE1k1h-5VbHdxo3RtmN1pLGiBkE-lzQpV-L5JR-uaPCJNgEWjGhuFJLE4Mqd8d3lXvJPva8c/s320/SDC11300.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>Here is my poster on my chosen chapted The Power of Context and how it relates to design. I found this assignment really difficult but once i got into the hang of things i feel it started to go much better:)jwhite53http://www.blogger.com/profile/04843172515693432920noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5080100068489786205.post-82959511337118980382010-11-07T10:50:00.000-08:002010-11-07T10:50:04.466-08:00Friday 5.11.2010 BrainstormingOn Friday after lectures, Viv, Kirsty and I went to Braes to do some brainstorming on our chosen topic of The Tipping Point - Power of Context. I feel it was very successful and it has made me realise that i much prefer discussing idea's with other people first to help me get started on assignments, and i like hearing other people's points of view as well. <br />
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For example today we had a lecture from jewellery and metal designer Hazel White. She completed her first degree of English and History at Edinburgh University but also graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone with a degree in Jewellery and Metal Design in 1993. <br />
She spoke about a lot of different fields that she had looked into ranging from bling Philips and Swaroski USB pens, prayer beads, domesticating telecare and charm bracelets. <br />
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I found two areas of the talk most interesting. The first part was about how she designed a sort of memory box mainly marketed for those who have long distance relationships with relatives e.g. people living in the Shetland Islands. In the Shetland Island most of the younger generation leave to study at universities but do not return due to the lack of job opportunities. Hazel White designed a simple wooden box that contained a built in i phone which was set up to the web page flikr. There would be small knitted cushions in the box, each resembling a different family member. When a cushion was placed onto an area in the box recent photographs come up on the i phone. This design is perfect for the elderly who want to keep contacted with family members.<br />
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The piece of information i will take away from the lecture is thee quote White spoke saying: "Design things fast, so you can move on". I often find within my textile work that the pieces i complete which are most successful are those which took least amount of time. I find that i also prefer the one's which i don't think into to much.jwhite53http://www.blogger.com/profile/04843172515693432920noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5080100068489786205.post-31222937412307361152010-10-31T14:00:00.000-07:002010-10-31T14:00:38.732-07:0029.10.2010 BrainstormingWe were told to get into groups of 4/5, to do the brainstorming assignment but my group (group C) decided it would be best to do a whole group discussion first on each chapter to get a better outlook on the book as a whole, before we split into smaller groups to talk about The Tipping Point and how it relates to design.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhEZSP8taqv220z3A1Rsyosp2iDZGhO6DKHyrILXR7w5nBYv4KJv3ldZ_6Cc1JC9t1Dac6uhuAz-HIpY2Wq450mLSPBCf5D1MzXMNQT026fTqgr1TeV7on4iLWdoIklUPIcojL2buVngM/s1600/SDC11281.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" nx="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhEZSP8taqv220z3A1Rsyosp2iDZGhO6DKHyrILXR7w5nBYv4KJv3ldZ_6Cc1JC9t1Dac6uhuAz-HIpY2Wq450mLSPBCf5D1MzXMNQT026fTqgr1TeV7on4iLWdoIklUPIcojL2buVngM/s320/SDC11281.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>As i did my mind map on Chapter Four, The Power of Context (1), that will be what i will be looking into detail.. and how the power of context can relate to the industry of design.jwhite53http://www.blogger.com/profile/04843172515693432920noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5080100068489786205.post-32649044091845061482010-10-29T14:30:00.001-07:002010-10-29T14:30:07.035-07:00lecture 29.10.2010Today we had an interesting lecture from johnathon about what was the difference between good design and bad design.. The part I found most interesting was about how males and female are different.. E.g. Is it right that it should be the woman's job to stay home and look after children. He also spoke about although there isn't actually people who are always going to be lucky or unlucky but by the way people act can make them think like this. The example johnathon used that I found most convincing was about a woman who came to the conclusion that everytime a green coloured car passed her she would end up in a car accident. Instead the case being that when she did see a green car approaching she would concentrate too hard on the road ahead, and bringing on the accident herself. The other experiment was a group of girls and boys passing two balls between either people wearing : black t-shirts and white t-shirts.. We were asked to concentrate on only yhe white t-shirts and to count how many passes. By concentrating so intensely on the ball the majority of people did not notice a black haired gorilla walking straight through the group! I managed to but only because I noticed people laughing.. Although johnathon never did tell us how many passes there actually was!!jwhite53http://www.blogger.com/profile/04843172515693432920noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5080100068489786205.post-59495444375280321392010-10-26T05:24:00.000-07:002010-10-26T05:32:34.980-07:00Georgina Von Etzdorf<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpvBjcyFJr0qKgLXPPYCFMQWEWWJs1kThrAwtYJ5JSyF0gH3F8G5XKgqlEr_eZQLjonO1pqHP09JIYUBtgIcKjjAHTE277RCcbUf3Z2OOaMPAZ73UE0XOFio88jGdioxVaV5o9UraOGZ0/s1600/Georgina+Von+Etzdorf.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" nx="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpvBjcyFJr0qKgLXPPYCFMQWEWWJs1kThrAwtYJ5JSyF0gH3F8G5XKgqlEr_eZQLjonO1pqHP09JIYUBtgIcKjjAHTE277RCcbUf3Z2OOaMPAZ73UE0XOFio88jGdioxVaV5o9UraOGZ0/s1600/Georgina+Von+Etzdorf.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Yesterday, we had a talk by the well known textile designer, Georgina Von Etzdorf. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I have to say it was one of the most influential speeches i have ever received and really made me think about my own designs and way's in which i could improve them.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Georgina was so ordinary and such a down to earth person, which made it easy for me to listen to her talk. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">She was born in Peru but she graduated in 1977 from Camberwell School of Art. She started off in her parents garage before coming into partnership with two other designers Martin Simcock and Johnathan Docherty. They have even designed garments for The Rolling Stones, Kyle and Robbie Williams.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The Company GVE started by producing distinctive hand-printed textiles but now go onto sell everything ranging from dressing gowns, to furniture, to gloves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I really appreciate Georgina coming to visit us at Dundee and feel absolutely privileged to have got to see a lot of her garments in person. She had definitely gave me a brighter outlook on textile design and success.</span>jwhite53http://www.blogger.com/profile/04843172515693432920noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5080100068489786205.post-82072239403281592332010-10-25T15:47:00.000-07:002010-10-25T15:47:07.770-07:00Annotated bibliography:)<div class="text" style="margin: auto 0cm auto 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span></div><div class="text" style="margin: auto 0cm auto 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">·</span><span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">Nov19th 1998 the Blue Revolution, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">New York Review of Books</i>, 32 – 34.</span></div><div class="text" style="margin: auto 0cm auto 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">Gladwell explains how unattractive subways were as they were covered in “graffiti- top to bottom, inside and out”. It provides the reader with the clear image of how easily crime could be committed in environments like that.</span></div><div class="text" style="margin: auto 0cm auto 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">·</span><span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">Bratton, W. (1998) <i>Turnaround: How America’s Top Cop Reversed the Crime Epidemic.</i> New York: Random House.</span></div><div class="text" style="margin: auto 0cm auto 36pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Here we see Bratton describe to use how run down and dirty New York City is at that time and compares it to: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘... at transit version of Dante’s Inferno.’ <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is used successfully to show what it was like before the “broken window’s theory” took place and cleaned up the subways.</span></span></span></div><span lang="EN" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-themecolor: text1;"><div class="text" style="margin: auto 0cm auto 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">·</span><span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Bratton, W and Andrews, W. (1999) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">what we’ve Learned About Policing. </i>City Journal</span></span></span></div><div class="text" style="margin: auto 0cm auto 36pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Fare-beating was becoming so common it was starting to cost the transit authority millions of pounds. Not only was that but there an increase on petty crimes and violence going on down in the subways. Gladwell successfully uses the examples just to show how dangerous it could be.</span></span></span></div><div class="text" style="margin: auto 0cm auto 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">·</span><span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">Fletcher, G, P. (1988) <i>A Crime of Self Defence.</i> New York: Free Press. </span></div><div class="text" style="margin: auto 0cm auto 36pt;"><em><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-style: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Gladwell uses this source to tell the reader what Goetz’s ordinary image looked like and a rough bit of his background information.</span></span></em><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span></i></div><div class="text" style="margin: auto 0cm auto 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">·</span><span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Haney, C. Banks, C. Zimbardo, P. (1973). <em><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Interpersonal Dynamics in a Simulated Prison.</span></em> International Journal of Criminology and Penology</span></span></span></div><div class="text" style="margin: auto 0cm auto 36pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Gladwell uses this experiment as an example to show how people’s behavior can alter when an influenced environment is created. Gladwell states: “The purpose of the experiment was to try and find out why prisons are such nasty places. Was it because prisons are full of nasty people, or was it because prisons are such nasty environments that make people nasty?”</span></span></span></div><div class="text" style="margin: auto 0cm auto 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">·</span><span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">Kelling, G L. And Coles, C M. (1996) <i>Fixing Broken Windows</i>. New York: Touchstone.</span></div><div class="text" style="margin: auto 0cm auto 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">Gladwell compared crime as like a fashion trend that is “contagious”. This is where the broken windows theory comes into play. If something is vandalised and left, people are more likely to damage it even more because it is uncared for and then lead to more dangerous crimes.</span></div><div class="text" style="margin: auto 0cm auto 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">·</span><span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">Rubin, L. (1986) <i>Quiet Rage: Bernie Goetz in a Time of Madness.</i> New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.</span></div><div class="text" style="margin: auto 0cm auto 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">Gladwell explains that on the express train the majority of people avoided the four teenagers sitting down because they knew they would associate trouble but when Goetz boarded he seemed to know notice them as though he was asking for trouble.</span></div><div class="text" style="margin: auto 0cm auto 36pt;"></div></span>jwhite53http://www.blogger.com/profile/04843172515693432920noreply@blogger.com0