Motion 2 - Opening Sequence

The style of the opening credits to Breaking Away in the style of 'The Paradise'

Breaking Away, filmed in Bloomington Indiana, is about the conflict between the locals (Cutters) and the college students. The film centers around a high school graduate who is debating about attending college. He is obsessed with Italian bicycle riders and learns to speak Italian. His parents don't understand his obsession and think he should just get a job. But his idealistic love of Italian culture and bicycle racing leads him to compete against some Italian bicyclists when they visit Bloomington for a race. This coming of age story reveals the struggles of a small college town and all who live there.

BREAKING AWAY
Director: Peter Yates
Writer: Steve Tesich

Starring:

Dennis Christopher

Barbara Barrie

Paul Dooley
Robyn Douglass

Featuring:

Dennis Quaid
Daniel Stern
Jackie Earle Haley

Doing Ethnography - G. Gobo

Www.sagepub.co.uk/gobo

Doing Ethnography, giampierto Gobo

Sage Publications, London, 2008

Wordpress

http://wordpress.org/themes/twentythirteen

Monday Night Football Inforgraphics by Dale Harney

More Resources

Dr. Richard Florida, The Rise of the Creative Class

Life is like riding a bicycle.

To keep your balance you must keep moving.

—ALBERT EINSTEIN, IN A LETTER TO HIS SON EDUARD, FEBRUARY 5, 1930

Presented to the ASPCA by
Edith G. Bowdoin, 1913

70% of the world’s population will be urban by 2050

http://edutoolkit.designersaccord.org/how-can-we-continue-to-move-design-education-forward/

Resources from David

IDEO HCD Toolkit
http://www.ideo.com/work/human-centered-design-toolkit/

http://www.pps.org/reference/what_is_placemaking/

http://www.epa.gov/region2/superfund/npl/gowanus/

http://www.gowanuscanalconservancy.org/ee/

http://www.gowanuscanal.org/

http://gowanus.org/gccdc/

http://www.designyc.org/gowanus-ecology-initiative

http://www.designyc.org/gowanus-canal-conservancy

Methodology

http://dschool.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/BootcampBootleg2010v2SLIM.pdf

Co-Design

http://www.designcouncil.org.uk/resources-and-events/designers/design-glossary/co-design/

participatory urbanism in Crown Heights:

http://participatoryurbanism.blogspot.com/


Participatory Urban Planning with James Rojas

http://civic.mit.edu/blog/kanarinka/participatory-urban-planning-with-james-rojas

a good summary and definitions of placemaking

http://www.ct.gov/cct/cwp/view.asp?a=3933&q=502482'


Liz Sanders is a Co-Design expert and practitioner

http://www.maketools.com/


http://designmind.frogdesign.com/articles/the-substance-of-things-not-seen/innovation-starts-with-empathy.html

http://www.bmwguggenheimlab.org/100urbantrends/#!/new-york-city/20

http://www.bmwguggenheimlab.org/100urbantrends/#!/new-york-city/10

http://www.bmwguggenheimlab.org/100urbantrends/#!/new-york-city/20

http://www.bmwguggenheimlab.org/100urbantrends/#!/new-york-city/63

http://www.bmwguggenheimlab.org/100urbantrends/#!/new-york-city/73

http://www.bmwguggenheimlab.org/100urbantrends/#!/new-york-city/80

Meetings with Brad Lander's Office (3rd)

Meeting with Catherine and Michael from Mr. Lander's Office - Sept 20, 2013
To do for next week:
1. Finalize a name for the Gowanus website. Something that promotes dialogue, bringing people together, objective, non partisan, and community.

2. Start working on the look and feel of the website. Color palette, fonts, layout.
Ideas - rounded, organic, green, neutral colors. (non toxic)

3. Contact Pratt Center Elana Conti.

4. Research Josh Skaller, and consider how we are going to work together on the site.

5. Wordpress tutorial on Lynda.com and learn about SALSA.

6. Site map for Gowanus website.
Homepage: Project description
Photo gallery
Map of Gowanus
Upcoming events
News - outcomes of meetings

Other pages:
Gowanus plan archive - from mid 90's to present.
Opportunities for participation, Contact, Signup

Ability to add pages as needed - Page that describes the outcome of the process.

Next public meeting is October 28. E-Flyer and PDF for street team.
SALSA email blast.

Fantasy additions to the website or just my thesis website:
Interactive Gowanus map with current and future plans
Demystification tool
Profile on Buddy Scotto (and Deb)

Local Organizations

http://welcometocup.org/

http://welcometocup.org/Projects/PublicAccessDesign

http://jennykutnow.com/

http://www.pps.org/reference/what_is_placemaking/

http://www.fifthave.org/

http://www.ideo.com/images/uploads/hcd_toolkit/IDEO_HCD_ToolKit.pdf

http://www.gowanuscanalconservancy.org/

http://www.gowanuscanal.org/

http://www.designyc.org/gowanus-ecology-initiative

http://proteusgowanus.org/

Thesis 1 - Takeaways from Directed Research

"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." Buckminster Fuller

My thesis topic is about social change and how people become empowered. I want to study the way that design can draw attention to a social issue and also transform the problem at the same time. Because design can be used to create awareness and call people into action, it can also be an agent of change by transforming people’s lives directly. This will help my reader hear the voices of an under represented demographic or social issue. And at the same time be empowered to help change the problem.

I plan on approaching this topic from several directions. One is by volunteering at the office of City Councilmember Brad Lander. He is active in working with developers in the the Gowanus neighborhood in Brooklyn. I met with his District Director, Catherine Zinnel, last week to discuss what I can contribute. She was very positive about bringing my design into their projects. I will be meeting with her again this week to move things forward.

I watched the film Wasteland, about the artist Vik Muniz. The film is about his work in Brazil at the world's largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho, outside of Rio. Muniz befriends a community of garbage pickers and transforms their lives through his artwork. I hope to incorporate a Muniz's methodology into my own thesis. I like the way he collaborates with the community he is trying to transform. The garbage pickers have a vested interest in the success of the art project because it could result in an improvement in their quality of life. They are eager to participate in the project and contribute to its success. Something that made Muniz’s project successful was his plan to auction the artwork in London at Phillips de Pury & Company. The quantitative value of the auction price was a clear indicator of the success of the project.

Finding a cause is proving to be difficult. Some options that I've been exploring are the growing amount of plastic in our oceans, affordable housing, and natural disaster relief. I'm not sure what of the 3 topics will lend itself to the creation of a thesis. But I'm exploring.

Plan of action:

Research:
Interviews
Create a forum where members of a community gather and share ideas.
Study a community. Do an ethnography.

Projects:
Build awareness through PSA and Social Media
Create an event where likeminded people gather to raise money and awareness
Create a product to sell to the public (shirt, sticker, keychain)

Awareness:
Celebrity endorsement
PR
Lobby for political influence

For next week:
Identify a community
Write a solid introductory paragraph.

Design Methodology + 3 Thesis Topics

Methodology from allen spector

Methodology July 3, 2013

Methodology from allen

Some links to remember:

http://www.codecademy.com/

http://dribbble.com/

http://cargocollective.com/

http://chadroffey.com/

http://conditionaldesign.org/

http://www.ipglab.com/