Nice work today everyone. If you want to watch the whole video by Trinh Minh-ha,
you can find it at the Oakland library. Name: "Re/Assemblage: From Firelight to Screen" by Trinh Minh-ha. Trinh is a French-Vietnamenese filmmaker and this work is seminal. (It is a very important film in ethnographic method.)
If you were not in class, a reminder: 3 absences = a Failure of the course. I recommend no one be absent - it's important that you are with us. If you are having any difficulty in the course, ask to see me during one of the breaks. You are responsible for the material that we did in class. Get this info from your classmates.
We are all here to help each other understand why it's important to address your design practices with an interrogation of race and other factors which push some people out of the mainstream market-place. Your goals should be to design in ways that are inclusive of a critique of the European ideology as it is aligned with excluding those who are not Christian, white, middle or upper class, heterosexual, and normative gender (Male, or Female).
You will find variances on how each person sees and understands themselves, when you do your interviews or discussions with the community of 'alternatively bodied' people you choose for your project. Does an "elderly" person see themselves as "elderly"? What factors do they cite as what it means to be 'older'? What is "older" to you? Or, what are some of the practices in the Muslim faith from people you know, and how is this belief reflected in the designs of their faith? Do we get to see these images in the media? Be specific about where you've seen these.
See you on FEB 25 with your final project proposal hard-copy (yes, you have to type it out and give me a hard-copy), and a presentation that describes a) your community choice b) your medium c) your method, from those we have discussed in class. Your methods should be described in great detail: who will you talk to? how will you access them? what kind of research is this - qualitative or quantitative? why have your chosen that method? what similarities and differences do you have with the community you choose? Be sure to describe the community beautifully: put it in a location (the one where you spoke to the members of the community), describe the people, and then focus in the people you spoke with. Have fun.
You're on your own now - see you next Friday!
- Dr. T
you can find it at the Oakland library. Name: "Re/Assemblage: From Firelight to Screen" by Trinh Minh-ha. Trinh is a French-Vietnamenese filmmaker and this work is seminal. (It is a very important film in ethnographic method.)
If you were not in class, a reminder: 3 absences = a Failure of the course. I recommend no one be absent - it's important that you are with us. If you are having any difficulty in the course, ask to see me during one of the breaks. You are responsible for the material that we did in class. Get this info from your classmates.
We are all here to help each other understand why it's important to address your design practices with an interrogation of race and other factors which push some people out of the mainstream market-place. Your goals should be to design in ways that are inclusive of a critique of the European ideology as it is aligned with excluding those who are not Christian, white, middle or upper class, heterosexual, and normative gender (Male, or Female).
You will find variances on how each person sees and understands themselves, when you do your interviews or discussions with the community of 'alternatively bodied' people you choose for your project. Does an "elderly" person see themselves as "elderly"? What factors do they cite as what it means to be 'older'? What is "older" to you? Or, what are some of the practices in the Muslim faith from people you know, and how is this belief reflected in the designs of their faith? Do we get to see these images in the media? Be specific about where you've seen these.
See you on FEB 25 with your final project proposal hard-copy (yes, you have to type it out and give me a hard-copy), and a presentation that describes a) your community choice b) your medium c) your method, from those we have discussed in class. Your methods should be described in great detail: who will you talk to? how will you access them? what kind of research is this - qualitative or quantitative? why have your chosen that method? what similarities and differences do you have with the community you choose? Be sure to describe the community beautifully: put it in a location (the one where you spoke to the members of the community), describe the people, and then focus in the people you spoke with. Have fun.
You're on your own now - see you next Friday!
- Dr. T
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