7523QCA: Week 2, Floppy Effort
Admittedly, I have been quite slack this week. I attended class online due to poor mental health, but feel I definitely need to attend the in person class to remain more present during group class activities.
This week in class, we:
- Discussed the concept of Speculative Design and Design Fiction
- Read an article about global happiness in relation to designers and our work (I brought up capitalism, which was embarrassing because the teacher didn’t understand the relevance of it)
- Looked at how speculative design can honour the importance of considering the consequences of one’s design
- Participated in an exercise thinking about what an existing product will look like in 50 years (I thought about public healthcare (specifically Medicare) and how it could evolve e.g. less privatisation, LGBTQ+ friendly services becoming more widely accessible, and complete bulk-billing for all services excluding purely cosmetic procedures)
- Participated in a group activity on discussing designs and their consequences (my group looked at alcohol and online shopping)
Due to stress, specifically surrounding the research for Design Thinking, I have been prioritising work for other courses.
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Being thus far only in the online classes, I haven’t had to experience comparing my work to those around me. I appreciate the slower progression of this course due to the other classes really wrangling me in to complete work well before the official due date (which isn’t a bad thing, but is incompatible when all 3 of my courses do it).
Overall my progression is fairly slow, but I’m not feeling particularly intimidated by the coming assignment. I have some concepts I would like to look into like Universal Basic Income, worker co-ops, and the distribution of police funding to sectors like councillors and support workers.
I have significant work to do, but thankfully, I have time.
-Ollie
