It was great to see the work that everyone brought in today! Keep putting in effort to express your skills and insights to the rest of the class so that we can help you grow in the areas you are interested in developing. I will email you each individually with my comments and observations later this week. Assignment 3 Details
1. Scan or photograph your work from the weekend design exercise and post the JPGs to your blog site, along with a link to a PDF version of the boards. Please include a paragraph of text introducing and linking to Assignment 2. If your blog is empty for some reason, by all means go ahead and add your responses to the readings from Assignment 1.
2. Skim through the following papers referenced during Jesse's talk earlier today and post a few sentences of remarks on each on your blog.
- Designing Sustainability, Agogino
- Metrics for Measuring Ideation Effectiveness, Shah, et al.
- Creativity as a Design Criterion, Christiaans
3. Reflect on three areas of social need that are of personal interest to you and compose a paragraph for each on your blog page describing the issue and why it matters to you. You do not necessarily need to choose one of these areas to work on during Design Project 2, but this will help us begin the discussion that will lead you to your final topic.
4. Based on these reflections, create a list of the local nonprofit organizations or businesses with social missions that you are considering contacting. Visit their websites and prepare a brief statement about the communities they serve. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions about what a qualifying organization would be - remember this does not need to be a non-profit. Any org or company that provides social benefits to generally underserved communities is worth bringing up in discussion. Below are some resources for locating organizations to add to your list.
- http://nonprofitdir.rifoundation.org/
- http://www.risdpublicengagement.net/id3.html
- http://208.82.213.185/resources_search.asp (this one has a large group of orgs in MA listed)
- http://www.clearlyso.com/businesses-directory.jsf (this one is purely for taking a look at Social Businesses across the globe)
5. Lastly, please take a look at this OED powerpoint and PDF document. There are some areas of crossover with what we covered previously, but you will find new information about communities in Western China that has not yet been covered in class.
Thanks everyone!
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