1. John Longchamps
Denise DeLuca
Biomimetic Design
MCAD | Summer 2015
Assignment 5.2b - Identifying Functions
Design Challenge
What is the Design
Intended to Do?
Functions
Support youth
employment and
career
development.
I. Establish a context-adaptive
agile framework to support
national youth employment and
career development in the United
States through local modes of
implementation that:
1. Respects the diversity of
national situations to
develop practical
frameworks that span
across sectors, are
context-specific, and
engage a comprehensive
range of stakeholders
2. Prepares groups of
vulnerable young people
including
low-income youth and young
women for entry into the
labor market.
3. Enters this group of
vulnerable young people
into the labor market.
4. Retains this group of
vulnerable young people in
the labor market.
5. Assesses and provide
recommendations for
graduate unemployment
policy integration into
higher level framework
architecture.
6. Assesses and provides
recommendations of
national labor market
needs.
7. Supports entrepreneurship
education for
disenfranchised youth.
8. Empowers vulnerable young
people to apply their
creativity and ability.
1. Long-term systemic
sustainability
through leveraging
diverse, locally
attuned
functionality and
response.
2. Incubation of
youth skills.
3. Incubation of
youth mental
health.
4. Integration of
traditionally
isolated groups of
youth into various
tiers of the labor
market.
5. Assessment of the
environmental
conditions of the
graduate un- and
under- employment.
6. Assessment of the
environmental
conditions of
national labor
market needs.
7. Nurturing and
growth of
entrepreneurial
skills in
disenfranchised
youth.
8. Growth of skill
and executive
function within
the minds of
vulnerable youth.
