Week 5

Brain storming session to come up with solutions for our 'how might we?'

Week 5

New Project

I have decided to change briefs. Designing for business workers doesnt really interest me. These are the visual briefs that interested me from presentations

Eat Me - Minjoo Ruth Bai
Stress in the City - Jeremy and Alex Burger
Stress in the City "Finding the time" - Le Hong Mai and Daranga Wanigasinghe
City Stress - Tess Brown and Sami Curley
Jeremy Hall and Liam Gray
Conrina Reitemeyer and Yulan Black
Sophie gets the shakes - Maddi Skeggs and Fraser Malpas

Sarah Thomas and I have joined forces to work on Sophie gets the shakes. 

If children are more prepared for the long-term emotional effects of an earthquake, they are more likely to understand the situation when it occurs. Furthermore, the more they understand the situation, the less confusion and stress they are likely to feel about it. Young children are unable to prepare themselves for something they have not experienced, so the responsibility is that of their main educational sources: their school and their parents. 

How might schools and families work together to prepare children for the long-term effects of an earthquake?

Dossier and Presentation

Facts

• Urban living is on the rise whereas rural living is becoming the exception – in all parts of the world and at an ever-increasing rate. The rapid pace of urbanisation is an important marker of the societal transition at large that has occurred over the past 30 years.

• ”Previous findings have shown that the risk for anxiety disorders is 21 percent higher for people from the city, who also have a 39 percent increase for mood disorders,” says co-author Jens Pruessner, a Douglas researcher.  

https://lsecities.net/media/objects/articles/urban-stress-and-mental-health/en-gb/

• Many studies have indicated that urban dwellers have more than a 20 percent increased risk for anxiety disorders and an increased risk for mood disorders of almost twice that compared to rural citizens. There have also been a significant increase in schizophrenia evident among people born and raised in metropolitan areas.

https://www.anxiety.org/city-dwellers-have-higher-stress-levels

• 80% of workers feel stress on the job, nearly half say they need help in learning how to manage
stress and 42% say their coworkers need such help.

http://www.stress.org/workplace-stress/

• 62% routinely find that they end the day with work-related neck pain, 44% reported stressed-out eyes, 38% complained of hurting hands and 34% reported difficulty in sleeping because they were too stressed-out.

http://www.stress.org/workplace-stress/

Visual Brief

Visual References

https://www.behance.net/gallery/40222601/il-bilancio-di-coerenza-di-Bcc

https://www.behance.net/gallery/31589125/STAPLES-CSR-Report

https://www.behance.net/gallery/33039163/Report


Very nice and cohesive, Easy to read and understand even when there is tones of information. Love the 3rd page, great use of negative space and type.

Brief draft

Draft brief

Bob is a young professional that works 5 days a week in a 9 to 5 job. He always has a large workload and high pressure declines. He spends majority of his day in the office working at his computer which is bad for his health…

Surprising Bob has an hour break for lunch but he never take it out of his office as he feels guilty about his work load and overwhelmed by the busyness of the city.

How might we make his lunch break worth his time and have a positive impact on his wellbeing. 

This has the potential to get him active and connect. 

Bob needs a way to/wishes escape his work and city for an hour in the middle of his day and not feel guilty about it. This should take the form of …

Draft 2

Bob is a outgoing, optimistic and hardworking young professional that works 9 to 5 job. He always has a large workload and high pressure declines. He spends majority of his day in the office working at his computer which is bad for his health as he is always sitting down and not exposing himself to fresh air and sunlight. He is a new employee, he loves adventure but with is new job he feels he has to work overtime to prove himself to the new boss.

Bob needs a way to refresh and energise himself in the middle of the day so he can stay focused and work to his best ability for the rest of the afternoon. He has a small break around lunch that he needs to make the most of but surprisingly he never take it out of his office as he feels guilty about his work load and overwhelmed by the busyness of the city and new lifestyle.

add picture !!! POV Statements

Bob is a young professional that works 5 days a week in a 9 to 5 job. He always has a large workload and high pressure declines. He spends majority of his day in the office working at his computer which is bad for his health…

Surprising Bob has an hour break for lunch but he never take it out of his office as he feels guilty about his work load and overwhelmed by the busyness of the city. 

How might we make his lunch break worth his time and have a positive impact on his wellbeing.

This has the potential to get him active and connect.

Bob needs a way to escape his work and the city for an hour in the middle of his day and not feel guilty about it.

This should take the form of … 

____

A young professional that is adventures and ambitious needs away to feel less guilty and more confidant when taking his lunch break because his large workload and boss has high demands, the stress of work seems more important that a break.

____

Mixed class and found two different groups to quickly go over our POV statements. Here is some of the feedback we got.

-Mix the two together as they both have very clear parts

-'Guilty' is a really nice way to describe taking a break when you do have a busy schedule with other important things to do. lovely insight

-It feels true, can apply it to being a student also.

-Don't know if adventure is the right word? Makes me think of mountain biking and other similar activities. Why would someone like that be working a business job with set hours?

   vs

-I like the tension it could really build something important and maybe suggest a solution.

-Still very open: He needs an escape whether it be mental, physical or spiritual.

-Narrow into a nice little nugget. Rewording.

-The tensions are great.

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Tried some more shorter ones independently

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Jamie is a young professional that works in an office job, he is ambitious and strives to exceed the expectation on his work, the busyness of office stresses him out close to declines but surprisingly he does not take his break away from the office.

An ambitious young professional needs to uses his breaks to relax as well as energise in order to be productive for the whole day but surprisingly he misses them as he thinks its wasting time.

An outgoing young professional needs to his break to connect with other people, he likes being social and meeting new people but surprisingly feels too guilty to leave his work for long enough to interactive with people.

A hardworking young professional feels the stress of the over stimulating spaces around the city and office and needs away to escape for a short amount of time during his shift but surprisingly stays in the office as he feel the pressure of work it to much.

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