Project for ARC211 American Diversity and Design Course in University at Buffalo State University at New York

2. Introduction
This thread provides you with an opportunity to “meet” each other and initiate
a connection with participants in your group. In responding to this discussion
thread, please introduce yourself and provide us with one interesting fact about
yourself.After posting your introduction, take a look through and reply to some
of the others. The purpose of this exercise is to develop a sense of community.
You might find that you share similar experiences and can help each other in
many ways throughout the semester.
Hello! My name is Jiwon Jung, and I am a UB undergraduate student who is
majoring in Biochemistry. This is my third year in UB and other than the mad
coldness and snow, I pretty much like here. I was born in South Korea and my first
language is Korean, so my English skills are not perfect. I am still trying to learn
the language but it might be able to sound a little awkward grammar-wise.
I am not sure what would be interesting about me, so I think I am just going to list
some of my favorite things. I LOVE Bruno Mars, and when I became a huge fan
of his (which was like a year and a half ago) I listened to his songs (his songs only)
literally all day long and never got tired of them. Also, I really love Harry Potter
series, that I once thought of getting a tattoo of the deathly hallows. Unfortunately,
my mom threatened me that she would lock me out of my house if I got a tattoo so
I could not get one. My favorite film is Tangled by Disney, but I will not talk about it because I do not want to spoil anything in case there is someone who
has not watched the movie yet! Lastly, I am in a club called Korean Folk Art club, and I play Korean traditional drums and gongs there. I think that is pretty
much it.
I decided to take ARC211 because I was interested in diversity and feminism issues. I identify myself as a feminist who is learning more about gender
equality and rights for minorities. This course has been amazing learning source for me and I learned a lot of things, especially about people with physical
and mental disabilities. It was hard to do critical thinking for the discussion board questions, but I did enjoy doing it a lot!
One last thing that I want to mention is about the picture I put. I usually write some stories in an Internet community, and I got this amazing fan art from one
of the fans of my stories! Lily Elysium that is written in the picture is the nickname I use in that community. I love this fan art and I use it as a profile picture
for my social network service accounts, so I thought this is the one that can express me the best.
@yukbeeee

3. Response to “What is design?” from Hello World
On “What is design?” from Hello World: Where Design Meets Life by Alice
Rawsthron, the author opened her chapter with the example of Ying Zheng,
the ruler of the Qin empire, one of the most powerful and enduring empires
in the history of China. She explained how design innovation contributed to
Ying Zheng’s success. For example, in the development of weaponry, he
resolved many problems by standardizing parts, and this single innovation
gave his armies great advantage over other armies.
For this discussion, let’s move away from 246 B.C. China, and into the U.S.
Describe an innovation or invention (Can be current or historical) that gave
advantage to a group of people in the U.S. or to the population as a whole.
What were the social impacts of this innovation? Where any groups
negatively impacted by this innovation? For example, the telegraph, developed and patented in the United States in 1837 by Samuel Morse, permitted
people and commerce to transmit message across both continents and oceans almost instantly, with widespread social and economic impacts. This
heightened communication speed allowed business persons to make decisions with up-to-date information, often resulting in big profits. Those without
access had to rely on out-dated information, which put them at a disadvantage.
Maybe because I do not have my car and usually use the public transportation like the bus or train a lot, I'd like to talk about public transportation, especially
focusing on the city buses. In the books written in middle age Europe that I read about, I saw a lot of people riding horse wagons to go to the different part of
the city like taxis. After the industrial revolution, I read about a lot of people driving their own automobiles. So, thinking about how the idea of picking up a
bunch of people that don't know a lot about each other living in the same city and going around certain routes to visit every part of the city had been developed
is pretty interesting to me. According to the Doopedia 'bus' article, the first form of bus which could take up to 8 passengers were invented only 10 years after
the first automobile appeared in Germany1
. In the beginning of 1900's the United States some bus companies started servicing and soon the buses could be
seen a lot on the street with other cars. It surely benefited a lot of people who didn't have any other transportation methods, but in the beginning the physically
disabled people might not have had the full services if they were traveling by themselves because of the lack of ramp or other type of supportive designs in the
first models of the public transportation.
1
"Bus." Doopedia. April 30, 2014. Accessed February 1, 2017. http://terms.naver.com/entry.nhn?docId=1100600&cid=40942&categoryId=32360.
https://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2016/06/
27/an-early-city-bus-motors-down-fifth-avenue/

4. Response to “Introduction” from Diversity and Design
On “Introduction” from Diversity and Design: Understanding Hidden Consequences
The editors state that “diverse participation in the design process, from both professionals and public
citizens alike, yields more equitable results.” This makes sense, but typically has not been the case.
Nonetheless, many marginalized groups have impacted design in ways that have changed our visual and
physical worlds as well as our systems, policies, and institutions. For example, in the 1960s, disability rights
advocates designed media events to raise awareness about barriers in the physical environment. They
persisted with their efforts for decades, and, finally, in 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act became
law. It mandated accessibility in public accommodations such as restaurants and stores, public
transportation, communication, and other areas of public life. This dramatically changed our physical
environment (from curb cuts to ramps to automatic doors) and the results made public life more equitable.
Now it’s your turn. Describe a design that was impacted by a diversity group. How and why did it change
form and/or circumstances? (Note that a design can be anything requiring planning and development prior
to the production of an action, system, visual, material object, or environment. Also, keep in mind that, for
our purposes, a diversity group is a group of individuals who are underrepresented in society in some
way—children, older adults, the economically disadvantaged, those with cognitive disabilities, etc.)
As soon as I read the discussion topic, I remembered of an article that I read on Twitter (as an embedded news article
link) about a female designer in New York who changed the handicapped sign on the parking lot and on the
bathroom door. The old sign had a person sitting on a wheelchair and doing nothing with their hands, but the new
sign she designed depicted the handicapped person moving the wheelchair by him/herself, showing that the disabled
people are not just the ones that cannot do anything by themselves and need help from non-disabled people, but they
are able to do things by their own. A lot of people agreed to her and decided to join her changing the sign, and the
New York state officially accepted her design for the new handicapped sign2
. I think it shows that the perspectives
of the people in major group towards the minority group have been changing, and it helps a lot of other people who
had biased viewpoints for minority groups to think differently.
2
Chokshi, Niraj. "The handicap symbol gets an update - at least in New York state." The Washington Post. July 29, 2014. Accessed May 2015.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/07/29/the-handicap-symbol-gets-an-update-at-least-in-new-york-state/?utm_term=.3319a32cefb5.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/new-
accessibility-logo-handicapped-
disabled-200036203.html

5. Response to Media/Society Chapter and TED Talk on Photographs
Where would you place the images shown in Photos That Changed the
World into Croteau and Hoynes' diagram entitled “Model of Media and
the Social World”? Identify a mass media photograph taken in your
own lifetime that has served as an icon of an event. (Feel free to add an
attachment.) What roles does this photo play in the communication of
the event?
I would put the Images from the Photos that Changed the World in
"Readers or Audience" group. As I was reading through the book and the
part where it was talking about the readers or audience group, I thought it
was the best fit for the photos because I think all the images (not only the
images but all other visual sources) individually talk to the person that is
paying attention to them. Every photo has its own story and background,
and how to interpret them or how to accept them is all dependent upon what
the audience thinks. And I think the images that were on the video Photos
that Changed the World were speaking out to individuals to make them get
into an action, or at least think about what the photos were about.
I was thinking of some events that happened in my lifetime and influenced
me, and this one that I chose to talk about might be a little personal; it is
about my people in South Korea. Recently it was discovered that the president of South Korea had a close friend who was not involved in any politics to
decide everything for her and for the country. Everything about their relationship was exposed and people got very angry, and they demanded impeachment
of the president by gathering up in large square with candle lights in their hands. Approximately 1 million people (Korea is very small and the entire
population is about 50 million) gathered for candlelight vigils giving up their free evening time after work in cold winter night. The picture I attached is the
top view of the square filled with people and the lights are the candles the people were holding. Because it all happened when I was stuck here, I could only
see it in photos, and I do not know how to describe what I felt at the moment I first saw the picture, but certainly it meant something big for me and also for
other Korean students that I have been talking with about the issues.
http://www.ytn.co.kr/_ln/0103_201611191902223959
http://raccoonenglish.tistory.com/2786

6. Response to Articles on Hats as Communication Design
Typically, we do not think of hats as elements of mass media or social
media. However, the two hats (red and pink) discussed in the articles
certainly have taken on that role. Why are the two hats (red and pink)
mentioned in the articles vehicles of communication design? What
meanings do each of the two hats carry? In terms of communication
design, how are they similar? And how are they different from one
another?
Even to me personally who was not interested in politics at all, the 2016 United
States presidential election was certainly a huge issue. I still remember the day
after the election; the school was full of students talking about the election
results, and the Internet news articles and all the social network services were
busy spreading news of hate crimes and speeches occurred all over the United
States. On that day, it felt like the funny red hat with sloppy design of careless
typography that was often consumed as a meme became the symbol of the
greatest division in this country. I do not understand what was so fascinating
about the hat. The only thing the hat was designed differently from others was
that it had a political message written in a careless choice of fonts not even
aligned neatly. While people were talking about how poorly the hat was
designed, the message surprisingly spread out to the world fast, and people
started to accept it. The hat categorized its wearers as Trump supporters, or
Middle Americans who were tired of elitists. A hat, a simple accessory that a
lot of people wear contained such meanings as a platform for spreading
message. It would not be too surprising that the pink hat also chose the same
way to respond to the red hat and its wearers. Like the people getting united
wearing the same red hats, the pink hat gathered people together by sending
out the messages of protesting against Trump and all kinds of discriminations
at the Women's March. The pink hat, however, did not follow the path of red
hat being popular with sloppy designs. The red hat with almost no design-like elements became the most powerful way to spread message even though no one
expected it to be.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/21
/us/womens-march.html?_r=0
http://vesselnews.io/sjw-threatens-
shit-face-student-wearing-trump-hat/

7. Response to “Industrial Design” by John Heskett and “The Incredible Inventions of Intuitive
AI” by Maurice Conti
In his chapter on industrial design (written in 1987), historian John Heskett claims that the
methods of mass production introduced by Henry Ford in the U.S. involved new concepts of
the standardization and integration of the production line that were adopted across the
world. With Ford’s method, work could be completed by relatively unskilled workers; it was
more efficient and with this method, products were made more quickly and cheaply than
previously possible. What were some of the social consequences of Ford’s production line? In
other words, how did this system change our U.S. society? Do any of those changes remain
with us today? Now consider Maurice Conti’s TED Talk, and the predictions he makes
about production. How do you think manufacturing processes will change in the next twenty
years? How do you think these changes will affect our U.S. society?
Before the introduction of conveyor belt and Ford's production line, all the production activities
were done by human works. The quality, quantity, size and many other things of the products all varied even when they were made by the same person. And
all of a sudden all these processes became automated and standardized by the introduction of the production line. Then the mass production was enabled, and
people got less jobs to do. Now with all the issues such as automation of factories or stuff like Amazon Go, I think they are all extensions of the production
line and the beginning of the era of industrialization.
One time I watched a video on Twitter that a robot was told to build a tower of building block toys and then was told to destroy it. The robot asked if it could
keep the tower because it worked hard to stack the toy blocks up, and eventually cried because it had to destroy the tower by itself3
. It made me think about
all the artificial intelligence and robotics stuff because I just did not think stuff like that would happen that fast in my life as I was continuously told that all
the incredible technological innovations would occur soon but it did not. Maybe it is because when I was in elementary school I was often told that people
would be driving flying cars in 2010s and it would be common thing to be seen. I know there are some flying cars but it is not that common. I really liked the
video and especially part of the metaphor of nerve systems on the machines, and with all the deep learning and artificial intelligence developing now would
bring everything to somewhere completely different - the augmented age. Well, even though the machine takes over the world I do not think it can make me
exercise on the running machine so maybe not everything.
3
“미래인간 AI- 기계인간의 탄생” YouTube. December 5, 2016. Accessed May 01, 2017. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLV2IRmdiVsh2p4ukv-JpiPgjYMUBp6Kvn.
http://www.wisegeek.org/what-are-conveyor-belts.htm

8. Response to IDEAAwards and Cradle-to-Cradle Video
Which of the 2016 IDEA Gold Award products seems to defy the Cradle-to-Cradle
concept developed by architect William McDonough and chemist Dr. Michael
Brauganrt? How does this product resist or disregard the concept? Do you know of
any products that embrace Cradle-to-Cradle design? If so, please describe.
In my opinion, I think the Amber Wine among the 2016 IDEA Gold Award products defies
the cradle-to-cradle concept. Cradle-to-Cradle design refers to something that doesn’t
encourage any waste of products. So, it has to be reusable and recyclable. The Amber Wine
design is a simply wine case with elegant design, and other than that it seems pretty much
not reusable. Maybe it is recyclable, but if the only usage of this case is just to put wine, it
does not seem to be very effective way to conserve limited resources. Also, the cradle-to-
cradle concept emphasized the diversity of the design, but the design of the case is set and
standardized as only one. I am not saying that its design looks bad but I would like to see
various editions of them with different concepts. Also, there are a lot of people who do not
drink for various reasons, so it might not be able to be used by diverse people.
I could not think of any products that is embracing cradle-to-cradle design by my own, so I
looked at the 2016 IDEA Gold Award products and I saw this Hobtop, a four-burner gas
cooking appliance, that is 70 percent more thermally efficient and able to reduce the carbon
emission by 50 percent compared to other market products.4
By using this, it will be
possible to help the nature be healthy.
4
"Hobtop." Industrial Designers Society of America - IDSA. August 18, 2016. Accessed February 17, 2017. http://www.idsa.org/awards/idea/kitchens/hobtop.
http://www.idsa.org/awards/idea/kitchens/hobtop
http://www.idsa.org/awards/idea/packaging-
graphics/amber-wine

9. Response to All Module 4 Materials
Your readings and viewings this week present different ways of
thinking about architecture. Mies Van der Rohe describes
architecture as “The will of the epoch translated into space.”
Andrew Ballantyne describes architecture as the background for
life. Jeanne Gang describes it as the act of building relationships.
All agree that architecture can change based on context and
culture.Choose two works of architecture from any of your
materials this week—one with sensibilities about the past and
one with sensibilities about the present and/or future. How do
each of these buildings either reflect or challenge their cultural
contexts?
I would like to talk about Colosseum that was mentioned in
Ballantyne's article for a building with sensibilities about the past.
Ballantyne addressed Colosseum as a place where "life had long
vanished", somewhere the blood-shedding barbaric culture of violent fights for survival once was a part of daily life and entertainment for ancient Rome
citizens. People would have been sitting in big circles of high wall and watch the warriors fighting vicious animals or other warriors, where now tourists
walk by and take silly pictures while imitating the violent battles in the history. The building that was able to be made only in Rome as it was built the way
that it looks like right now, became a kind of symbol of ancient Rome.
For the one with sensibilities about the present, I think the Arcus Center mentioned in Jeanne Gang's Tedx Talk fits, because Gang said that the center was
designed to "break down traditional barriers between different groups and create possibilities for meaningful conversations around social justice," which fit
right into the current trend of increasing awareness of differences between groups of people and aim for acceptance of diversity and coexistence.5
5
Gang, Jeanne. Jeanne Gang: Buildings that blend nature and city | TED Talk | TED.com. October 2016. Accessed May 01, 2017.
https://www.ted.com/talks/jeanne_gang_buildings_that_blend_nature_and_city.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/11/italy-launches-
international-search-new-director-colosseum-shake/

10. Response to Ballantyne and Zumthor Articles
Andrew Ballantyne and Peter Zumthor present ideas about
architecture that seem to value the sensorial and material
elements of life. How are Ballantyne’s and Zumthor’s
viewpoints on architecture alike? More importantly, how do
they differ?
Zumthor and Ballantyne both value the deeper concept of
architectures in their writings, how the relationship is established
between people and buildings upon daily lives. Unlike other
people who might not have thought a lot about architecture, they
seek for aesthetic appreciation in buildings and the usage of
buildings by human. According to their perspectives buildings are
not just some type of art but also interactive materials that can be
more than concrete with specific habits or sensations built in. Yet
they had different point of view towards the details; while
Ballantyne emphasized the engagement with buildings in
everyday circumstances via adaptation to certain architecture of
developing habits of daily life rather than "special case" like
aesthetic approach, Zumthor focused more on artistic part
comparing the architecture with other types of art like music or
paintings. His belief towards architecture reflects the architecture
as resistance or counteract to blunt meanings, that "speaks its own
language."
http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/blogs/kaleidoscopic-
panoramas-showcase-irans-most-beautiful-architecture
https://www.pinterest.com/explore/modern-kitchen-designs/

11. Response to Levy Article
John Levy’s article, “An Overview: The
Need for Planning,” discussed ways in
which planning can determine the
characteristics of a place. For example,
some smaller towns restrict the heights of
buildings to maintain a certain scale. How
did planning define the character of the
place in which you grew up?
I think as I was born and grew up there I had
not really paid attention how complicatedly
the city had been planned and built. I am from
a city named Daejeon (대전) in South Korea,
and it is a relatively small city compared to
Seoul or other big cities. Since Korean
peninsula is really small and 70% of the land is covered with mountains, people in cities usually live in 15 to 20 story tall, or even taller apartment buildings.
I think there are much taller apartments in Seoul but as I mentioned above, Daejeon is relatively small with less populations. The land is about 540.1km^2
large and the population in 2014 is around 1.5 million6
. Everything is designed like graph paper with straight lines and arrangements. Around the place with a
lot of apartments, there are also a lot of schools and some academic institutes that Korean students usually go to after school to do extracurricular activities.
There are also a lot of pharmacy stores, general stores, restaurants, playground for kids, and a lot of other stores and recreational facilities. There are not a lot
of hospitals around, though, and I think it is because the city is just too small and compacted that people can just take a bus or drive for a little bit (or even
walk for like 10 minutes) to get to the nearest hospital from their home or workplaces. There are also a lot of trees and parks, and if I go out a little bit (usually
about 30 minutes to 1 hour bus riding) there are a lot of small mountains on the edge of the city, yet I do not think the nature is really well-conserved in the
center. The picture I put has a lot of green color in it, but they are not very well-managed, and that is why I am saying that the nature is not that well-conserved.
6
"대전광역시." Wikipedia. April 26, 2017. Accessed May 01, 2017. https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%8C%80%EC%A0%84%EA%B4%91%EC%97%AD%EC%8B%9C.
https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%8C%80%EC%A
0%84%EA%B4%91%EC%97%AD%EC%8B%9C

12. Response to Pruitt Igoe Project, Talen, and Larson
Imagine that you are part of a urban planning and design firm working with Emily
Talen (author of “Design That Enables Diversity”) and Kent Larson (who gave the
TED Talk "Brilliant Designs to Fit More People In Every City" The thee of you have
been tasked with developing a plan to rebuild Pruitt Igoe in St. Louis. City officials
told the three of you that that they want to do it right this time. Identify three
strategies for rebuilding Pruitt Igoe in ways that promise to be more successful. What
would Talen do? What would Larson do? What would you do? How would your
strategies differ from those of the original urban planners/designers of the project?
Why would your strategies be more effective?
The Pruitt Igoe in my opinion was a good idea to bring people from slums together but the
attempt did not turn out very good. To make it more successful with the points that Talen and
Larson valued the most in their article and video, I think Talen would focus more on diversity
and Larson would concentrate on arrangement of the housing. I do not think putting lots of
people in the same open place would do any good for accepting their diversity; it is just
generalizing all the different values of people, and Talen might suggest to just put some
communicative centers inside or outside the building to let a few people gather up and spend
some time together with specific activities. It can be a gym or some type of recreational
center, a (animal) park or a cafe. While Talen is doing that, Larson would put some foldable
or pull-out furniture to increase the room usage efficiency. It will allow the people to use the
limited space more effectively and it will have some kinds of positive effects for people since
some people would like to be in small room and the other people might want to be in big
room. And I think I will focus on the decorative details inside the residing areas. This is a
little bit personal but as I am living in an apartment by myself and constantly being too busy
to decorate my room, I do not feel that attached to my room as much as I used to when I was
back in Korea. So, I would think of personalize the areas for the people living there and help them feel attached to the place.
http://www.politico.com/states/new-york/city-
hall/story/2012/02/new-documentary-the-pruitt-
igoe-myth-tells-of-the-rise-and-fall-of-americas-
most-infamous-housing-project-067223
http://www.pruitt-igoe.com/urban-history/

13. Response to Walter Hood’s Work
Identify something that should be memorialized either on UB's campus or
in your hometown. Imagine that you are the person who will oversee this
project, and that you are using Walter Hood's 'triad of investigations' as
your approach to the project. What would your landscape intervention
commemorate/memorialize? How will you use Hood's 'triad of
investigations' to design a new landscape intervention? What do you
imagine that the design will be?
I would like to talk about the National Memorial Board called Hyeonchungwon
(현충원) in my hometown. As I mentioned briefly in previous discussion, most
of the Korean peninsula is covered with mountains and it is no different in my
hometown Daejeon. The mountains are surrounding the city and the National
Memorial Board is on the outskirt region of the city so I can see the mountains
behind the cemetery area. I do not want it to ruin the view but I would like some
type of boundary between the mountain and the cemetery, because there are
always people who do what they are not supposed to be doing. So, I am thinking
of building low walls with unprocessed stones and clays like some of the Korean
traditional buildings. It will be topped with the same pottery materials as the
entrance roof as it is shown in the bottom picture. The wall will be low that tall
people might be able to peek inside, but the pottery will drop and crush when
anyone attempts to climb the wall and let the securities know that there are
intruders. And for the entrance it might be good to write the names of martyrs
and fighters for independence and democracy on the wooden pillar symbolizing
that our country has built upon their dedications and contributions. The shape of
the buildings can imitate the mountain ridge with arcs.
http://korean.visitkorea.or.kr/kor/bz15/wh
ere/where_main_search.jsp?cid=126003
http://daejeonstory.com/4597

14. Response to the Brookes
The abolitionist poster, the Brookes, is an iconic
image that often is included in exhibits that explore
issues of race and power. It was commissioned by
Thomas Clarkson in 1788, and the Committee of the
Abolition of Slavery used it to inform and shock the
public. While some consider the poster as an
important component of the abolitionist campaign, it
recently “has been strongly criticized by some
individuals and groups of African heritages as
providing a very limited view of the history of the
transatlantic slave trade, resistance and abolition
(Hudson 2007).” The lesson here is that how a viewer
sees an image is dependent upon his/her social,
economic, and cultural position. Keeping this in
mind, find another iconic graphic that addresses
racial issues and post it for others in your group to view. How do you interpret the graphic? What is its meaning? Now imagine that someone from
a racial and cultural background different than your own is looking at the same graphic. Briefly describe this person. How might s/he interpret its
meaning? How might this differ from your interpretation? What are the possible reasons for these differences?
I am pretty sure that a lot of people have seen the video of BBC interview with Dr. Robert Kelly who is currently teaching students in South Korea about South
Korean President Impeachment issue by now. To explain it briefly, during his interview his young daughters broke into his room and their mom ran into the
room to drag them out of the room so the kids did not interrupt their dad anymore. And then so many medias and people started calling their mom 'nanny,' like
"oh, poor nanny, she must have been fired." Some people corrected the others that she was their mom, but when they were corrected they started to justify their
assumptions saying stuff like "she looks too young to be mom," or "I thought she was a nanny because she looked panicked like she was afraid of losing her
job." Then why did people assume that she was a nanny? I think it is because of the racial, especially Asian stereotypes that are educated and institutionalized
in people's minds. If I were a white male that was raised in the United States and not familiar with any of the Asian cultures then I might have been the same
as those people who were busy justifying their assumptions based on racial profiling.
http://dareyourself.net/3337

15. Response to Charles Davis and equityXdesign’s Wrok
Critique either the MLK Memorial or the National Museum of African
American History and Culture using equityXdesign’s core beliefs
and/or design principles.
Even though Martin Luther King Jr. is not as well known in South Korea as
in the United States, most of the Koreans would have heard of his name and
what he had done for the human rights, especially for colored people. How
he worked as a human rights activist is very well known that it appears in
Korean textbooks too. As a civil activist, he insisted non-violent
demonstrations to address the discrimination issue and protested the racial
discriminations that were very popular in the United States at that time. The
Martin Luther King Memorial did a good job preserving the history written
by him, by putting his quotes on the monument and briefly explain the
history and cultures in their website, so the visitors in the memorial and the
website can learn what Martin Luther King fought for and what we, the
current generations had obtained through his acts.
One of the features equityXdesign emphasized was to link the history with
design materials so it can show the development of equity throughout the
history. The Martin Luther King Memorial presented a giant sculpture of him
and his quotes carved onto one of the memorials as parts of designs to
memorialize his great acts for defeating discrimination based on races and
heritages. So, with such viewpoint it was quite a decent job that the memorial
did to commemorate his existence in history.
http://www.cleveland.com/nation/index.ssf/2
011/10/king_family_calls_for_economic.html
https://www.nps.gov/mlkm/learn/building-the-memorial.htm

16. Response to “Landscape Stories” Chapter
First, let’s start with your own home. Describe a place in your home (indoors and/or
outdoors) that you think of as representative of your own ethnic background and discuss
why you consider this place to be ‘ethnic.’ Or describe an object in your home that you
think of as representative of your ethnic background and discuss why this object is
considered to be ‘ethnic.’ Is this object or place something that you will keep or continue
when you establish your own home? Why or why not?
Now let’s move into your community. In “Landscape Stories,” the authors show how
landscape architects develop a historical narrative that sifts through and interprets the
culture and material of underrepresented groups. Think about the community where you
grew up. Describe and discuss any evidence of cultural influences on the physical
environment in your community. If possible, describe evidence of the cultural influence
of an underrepresented group. Is this cultural influence being acknowledged or
preserved from future generations? Why or why not?
I do not think there was something or some part in my house that can be the representative of
my own ethnic background, because I live in an apartment building, with all the furniture
just look the same as the ones that can be seen in here, not any particular religious materials
because my dad is an atheist, and not any type of artworks that represents the ancient Korean
art style. But one time my family had this big white porcelain as some type of decoration.
Even though I am not sure if this porcelain is made in traditional Korean way but those types
of porcelains with specific geometric and oriental patterns are very valued as they appear very often on Korean textbooks and in museums, so I guess I can
say it can somewhat represent my ethnic background. Sadly, my family got rid of it while I was studying here so I do not think I can keep it in future.
Also for the community, I tend to think the 'culture' only as things in past, but to consider the modern history of Korea then I guess the city I grew up
somewhat represent the cultural influences. After the Korean war, my people were trying to rebuild the destroyed cities and modernize the lifestyles. I have
not been to Seoul a lot, but at least for my city people really tried to make it look modern. Now a lot of people are well-adopted to the physical environment
we created, and I think our cultural bases were somewhat influenced from the environment, and it influences the how the community is shaped again.
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17. Response to Article on Sports Branding
Recent controversies about sports branding focus on ethnicity. The
Washington Redskins team is just one example of the larger controversy,
but it receives the most public attention due to the name itself being defined
as derogatory or insulting in modern dictionaries, and the prominence of
the team representing the nation’s capital. Should sports team branding
designers use ethnic references (Fighting Irish, Boston Celtics, Atlanta
Braves, etc.)? Why? Why not? What are some of the complexities of this
issue?
I am personally not very familiar with the recent issues, but in my personal
opinion the branding designers have to avoid using the ethnic references unless
they are one hundred percent sure about the way the ethnic references would be
used as brand names, that there will be no single chance of the name getting used
in any "derogatory" ways, and also the ethnic groups have to give them
permissions to use their ethnicities as brands. Even though it is almost
impossible to predict what and how it would be accepted to other people, and I
am well-aware of it, it has to prevent all the possibilities of derogatory opinions
getting produced and spread out in any chance. What I am afraid of is, that the
power of public opinion is so strong that once there is a specific image or
stereotype towards an ethnicity group being set up, it is much harder to reverse
it than to spread it. It might be an extreme example, but Nazi’s created those
derogatory stereotypes towards Jewish people to blame them for their economic
hardships, and it led to Holocaust during the World War II. Because the design
and brands can be very powerful and famous sometimes, there has to be extra
more cautions and self-censorships about whether they are going towards the
right way or not.
http://michaelkonik.com/redskins-forever/
https://www.theodysseyonline.com
/predictions-for-the-boston-celtics

18. Response to “Visualizing Gender” Chapter
In their chapter “Communicating Gender,” Maya Ganesh and Gabi Sobliye
discuss two primary visual advocacy approaches: 1) get the idea, and 2) stories in
data. Find a new example of either of the two visual advocacy approaches to
gender issues, and post it in this thread. Cite the source.
First, identify the approach. Then explain how the designer uses the approach to
communicate a gender issue. Is the approach effective in this example? Why or
why not? How could this graphic be improved?
I would like to use the stories in data approach to talk about glass ceiling and wage gap.
The author of the post started zir article mentioning the widely-known quote "woman
earn 78 cents for every dollar a man earns," stating about the wage gap between two of
the gender groups, male and female. It turned out that the women earn even less than
that, which is 74 cents for every dollar a man makes in a controlled experiment and the
pay gap calculated in the experiment was about 2.7% between two groups of genders.
The author also talked about the fact that widest pay gap exists between married female
and married male and the age for male and female when their pay raise stops. Ze also
pointed out that men's wages rise until their age 50-55 with the median salary of $75000,
yet women's wages rise until their age 35-40 with the median salary of $490007
. This
type of information was very effective to address the gender issues because the statistics
support the fact, and the graph as a visual source indicating the pay gap differences
between these two gender groups show the obvious result. I just want to suggest not to
use blue for male and pink for female in the graph, because I personally think it is very
biased to use certain color for certain gender groups. Even though they are the colors
that are universally accepted to represent each gender group, it can re-produce the
gender stereotypes.
7
"Exploring the Gender Pay Gap." GlassCeiling. December 4, 2015. Accessed April 7, 2017. http://www.glassceiling.com/exploring-the-gender-pay-gap/.
http://www.glassceiling.com/e
xploring-the-gender-pay-gap/
https://queerguesscode.wordpress.com/2012/11/15/gl
ass-ceilings-and-escalators-gender-in-the-workplace/

19. Response to Bathroom Bill
Last year, North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory signed into law a bill that repealed local LGBT
anti-discrimination laws, and required people to use the bathroom that corresponded with the
biological gender written on their birth certificates. This prompted massive backlash. McCrory
stated, “You know, we all have to make adjustments in life. And we’ve had the proper etiquette
situation for decades in our country, and all of a sudden through political correctness we’re
throwing away basic etiquette.” Just this past Thursday, the North Carolina General Assembly
passed a bill to repeal the law while placing a moratorium on nondiscrimination measures.
Should people be required to use the bathroom that corresponds with the biological gender written
on their birth certificate? State why AND state why not. In other words, to receive full credit for this
question, you need to present an argument for both sides of the issue. As a designer, how would you
solve this gender dilemma?
I strongly disagree to the law; I do not think people have to be required to use the restroom only
corresponding with their biological gender on their birth certificates. This is 2017 and now we know
there are more than two gender groups in the world, such as transgenders, agenders, pangenders, etc. It is
just so primitive and barbarous to forcefully fit these minority groups in the narrow category of either
men or women. To force the people with gender identity disorder, for an example, to use the bathroom
that corresponds to their biological birth is something very cruel and insensible thing to do because those
people innately define themselves with different gender identity and sensitivity.
But what I am concerned is that there are always some people who are going to abuse the stuff that was
meant to be in certain way. Some people would pretend that they have different gender identity than their
biological gender and sneak into the bathroom to take pictures or videos, or even to rape others who
came to use the bathroom. I would just make new bathrooms for those minority groups if I were a
designer and had some power to do so. Even though it might not be the safest idea because some evil
people still can sneak in there to rape others or the people in minority groups who use the bathroom were
seen and got outing while they did not want to get revealed, this is all I can think of for right now.

20. Response to Hidden Ways
Author Steven Flusty categorized five types of disciplinary architecture that perpetuate
what he calls urban spatial injustice: 1) stealthy, 2) slippery, 3) crusty, 4) prickly, and 5)
jittery. Go out into the city of Buffalo, and find/photograph two examples from the list of
five. Identify what type of space you’ve photographed and why it might discriminate
against a specific population. Identify the location where you took the photograph, and
make certain that you are in at least one of the two photographs.
Since I do not really go out of school area I tried to find something that falls into any of the
categories of urban spatial injustice near my apartment and the campus. The picture below is an
apartment building on the Sweethome road that is in the middle of my way to school from my
apartment. I think it is one of the crusty design because it does not provide any ramps for people
on wheelchair. Because I do not have problem walking and have never used wheelchair or
crutches, I have not really paid attention to those stairs even though I walked pass it every
single day. But as I think about it, if anyone on the wheelchair would like to get into the
house they would get hard time trying to get up to the stairs. I know not many apartment
would provide elevators or ramps in the front and it will really limit the choice of disabled
people when they are trying to move to the other place or something.
And the second picture below this paragraph, I think it is categorized in jittery design. It is
a place in Warden Avenue that got burnt and had been abandoned like this for short period
of time. I had to google it because I did not want to go out around South Campus area (I
once ran into a bad person when I was going to Tops market so I do not like walking around
South Campus) to find and photograph something jittery. I think places like this discriminate
poor people who do not have enough money to afford decent buildings or to fix the broken
parts. If people do not have money they would have no choice but to pay for such place that
is in bad condition.
Jiwon Jung
http://fixbuffalo.blogspot.c
om/2007/03/what-if.html

21. Response to People Like Us
After almost two decades of public assistance, Tammy Crabtree took herself and
her family off the welfare rolls. But her job cleaning bathrooms at a local Burger
King barely paid the bills. Crabtree wanted to do better and hopes to go to
college and become a teacher.
Imagine this scenario. You are a designer who works at the well-known
firm, iPD (Integrated Planning and Design). You work on a team with planners,
urban designers, policy designers, architects, and social designers. You have been
tasked to develop/design a way for Tammy Crabtree and her family (and others
with situations similar to Tammy’s) to move themselves out of poverty. What will
your team to do to help Tammy and her family achieve their goals? What
approach will your team take to address this difficult problem?
It makes me feel really bad and think a lot about the system and the economic status
nowadays. I have done some research about economic crisis in my ENG201 when I
was taking it last year because it was one of my projects for the class, and my
professor once showed a documentary about income inequality gap to the class. I am
not sure if I remember it correct but I think it said people who graduated high school
and get jobs make 40% less money than the college graduates, and get narrower
spectrum for job choices and less job opportunities. Poverty often gets inherited from
former generation to their children, and because the parents did not have enough
money to send their kids to college, the kids get paid less8
. So, I would really want her
to be able to go to college and get a stable and well-paying job first. If I can work with
policy designers then maybe I can suggest the local colleges to open some scholarship
opportunities for those who are in need of financial support, or colleges can hire those
and exempt their tuition fee. Also, I would suggest a campaign to raise funds to help Tammy's family move to somewhere closer to the city and make an
advertisement to encourage people to donate for those who need help. With architects, maybe I can build some shelters for them, too.
8
Choi, Junyoung. "Worsening Economic Inequality and the Crisis of the U.S.A." November 27, 2013. Accessed March 5, 2016.
https://miriamrousseau.wordpress.
com/2013/06/03/pragues-beggars/
http://dennisthernblog.com/child-beggar-racket-busted/

22. Response to Carroll Article: “(Re)forming Regent
Park: When Policy Does Not Equal Practice”
The development of Regent Park is phased, and
there are several more phases to the project.
What actions could be taken to ensure more
social integration for the older people living in
the ‘new and improved’ Regent Park?
In South Korea, many old people are found dead after
several days of their death because they are left alone
and nobody (not even their own kids) continuously
check on them due to being constantly busy with their
own lives. It has been quite a big issue in South Korea
recently, and it is not limited only in South Korea but
occurs a lot all around the world. I have not heard of
those kinds of things happening a lot here in the
United States, but I think there should be some way to prevent it from happening. Because some elders cannot be as physically active and their bodies are not
as healthy as younger people, they can accidentally fall and hit their head on somewhere and pass away when their relatives or neighbors are not paying
attention. And because they are left alone, they can be found several days after the incident and miss the right time to cure their injuries and die. To prevent
something like this from happening, I have heard of something that requires elders to press button or respond in any ways every once in 2 to 6 hours or so, and
if they do not, the 911 will be called immediately and rescue the elders, so I think it will be a good system to adopt for designers of Regent Park. It might seem
a little too excessive, but thinking of how fragile their bodies are and how fast usual medical emergency requires to be, 2 to 6 hours seem pretty reasonable.
Also, it will be nice to have semi-weekly exercise or crafting class for elders (and younger people too if they want) to join to let them interact with each other
and check on each other. It will also give them something to do and have fun with so it can prevent them from having depression after their retirements and
sudden increase of rest time at home. Some of the elders have not received educations for what they wanted to learn in their youth due to being constantly busy
with making livings, it will be good opportunities for them to challenge to the new stuff and good job opportunities for younger people, too. The structure of
the buildings can be designed to be elder-friendly with ramps and elevators, but what is so called stramp which is a combined structure of stairways and ramps
is not recommended because they are usually too narrow and steep for the people who really have to use it.
http://www.upliftingmobility.com/yoga-for-seniors/

23. Response to Enriquez TED Talk: “What Will Humans Look Like
in 100 Years?”
For this question, we will focus on Juan Enriquez’s Life Two
civilization, which alters fundamental aspects of the body. We are
living longer than ever before in human history. Enriquez argues
that, because of advances in bio-medical technology, the possibility
to 120 years of age and beyond is quite possible for many of us in
this D+D class. Assuming that his assertion is accurate, how do you
think extended life spans will change our societies and built
environments? What new issues might designers face because of
extended life spans?
I still remember the morning when I was told that the entire population
on the earth has reached over 7 billion. I am pretty sure the population
is still growing, and it will probably grow even more and more in the
future due to the improving medical technologies. I had a class debate
about genome editing on Wednesday in my biochemistry class, and
learned a lot about the new technologies enabling embryo genome
editing and how we can apply those techniques in broad aspects of
human lives. With these technologies, the earth will be more and more
crowded than how it is now, and the major population will soon become
elders. It will certainly change a lot of things in our society, that the city
will expand and grow elder-friendly with more public transportations
elders can use, more hospitals or nursing home, more taller buildings
to fit increased size of population, and less structural designs that can
possibly hurt elders (like raised spots or slippery floors that elders can
trip and fall) the formation of city/building/product designs will change
in ways that can embrace the elders more, and so will some policies,
even some controversial political issues such as euthanasia. To support the increased population, studies on Genetically Modified Organism might be revved
up, and the policies about GMO’s might change also.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pp17E4E-O8
http://www.naturalnews.com/gmos.html

24. Response to PPT, Smithsonian, and Roy
The two most frequently mentioned models of disability are the ‘social’ and the ‘medical’
models. The medical model of disability views disability as a medical ‘problem’ that belongs
to the disabled individual. The social model of disability, in contrast, draws on the idea that it
is society that disables people, through designing everything to meet the needs of the majority
of people who are not disabled. There is a recognition within the social model that tehre is a
great deal that society can do to reduce, and ultimately remove, some of these disabling
barriers, and that this task is the responsibility of society, rather than the disabled person.
In the Smithsonian online exhibition, the story about the superhero hand, and Elise Roy’s TED
Talk, you saw examples of ways to engage disability that use the social model rather than the
medical model. In the Disability and Design PowerPoint, you were introduced to the concept
of Universal Design (UD). Certainly, UD embraces the social model of disability. In this same
PowerPoint, you saw positive and negative examples of each of the seven principles of universal
design.
For the Module 12 Thread 1, please select one of the seven universal design principles, and post
photographs that show both a positive and a negative example of the principle. Then address
the following question: how do your examples empower or disempower various people?
Describe the specific features of the positive example and the specific features of the negative
example. Discuss ways that the positive example could be even further improved.
I would like to talk about number four Perceptible Information in universal design principles. The top picture is showing my negative example, which lacks
the tactile strips, or walking and detecting marks for blind pedestrians. The blind pedestrian tactile strips have to be yellowish color because it is the color
people with low vision can best detect, and the block with several long lines means ‘go straight’ and the one with small dots means ‘stop here.9
’ So, for people
with visual impairments really need the walking/detecting marks to walk around and know when to go and when to stop or it can cause serious accidents. The
bottom picture displays the road with right color and right type of tactile strips for blind pedestrians, allowing them to walk safely.
9
"Understanding of Visual Impairments." Korea Welfare Foundation for the Visually Handicapped. 2012. Accessed April 30, 2017. http://www.hsb.or.kr/client/visually/visually4_3.asp
http://news.joins.com/article/21513885
http://blog.naver.com/kirc/20150782944

25. Response to Survey, FIXED, and Stelarc
Currently, we have the technology for you to choose many of the characteristics in your future child, and
this ability to choose poses some ethical questions. Of course, we all want the best for our own child.
However, as we move into a more collective situation, we need to consider how the consequences of
majority choices for children might change who we are as a species.
In the film trailer FIXED, you were introduced to the dilemma of living in a culture in which the “science-
fiction of human enhancement” has become almost a way of life, from prenatal genetic screening to bionic body parts. In the video, “A Man with
Three Ears” you are introduced to an artist who is using current technology to move humans beyond their current abilities. Last week, Juan Enriquez
asked us if it is ethical to evolve the human body. All of these videos suggest that the concept of disability ‘as we know it’ could cease to exist in the
future.
What lessons do you think we should learn from history when thinking about emerging enhancement technologies and reproductive technologies?
What are some of the possible consequences (both positive and negative) of being able to design our bodies and the bodies of our children? What
ethical quandaries do these technologies pose?
Now there are a lot of possible applications of germline modification on curing inborn genetic defects and acquired diseases such as various types of cancers
and AIDS that are currently studied. Not all of the arising technologies of genome editing is allowed to be performed on actual human patients and only
experimental attempts have been done, but if these skills get further developed and confirmed its safety, then it might change the whole medical field. If a baby
seems to have a genetic defect, then it can be fixed in zir fetal state, thus some types of genetic diseases might disappear. Also, the climate is changing and it
is possible that we might have to design the babies to enable them getting better adapted in changing weathers. These technologies have power to boost human
abilities and it can be beneficial to people who have unwanted diseases.
But then the negative effects might be population bottleneck with less diverse gene variations in the future. Individual characteristics might get abandoned and
only standardized traits can be preferred and appreciated. Also, it is possible that only rich social classes would get the advantage of designer baby or genome
editing, since it is not the most common technologies we have. If there are not good regulations set up for these techniques, some illegal movements can arise
and abuse the technologies, too. Or maybe some governments can abuse these skills to create some type of super soldiers and invade other nations.
It is still very controversial if we can use this technology on human embryo or not, and it will be in the future as well. Some might call it playing God, because
a human fixing genes of other human being seems somewhat wrong. Also, if parents can design their babies, it might be considered as serious violation of the
rights of the baby, because it is the baby that is going to live the life, not zir parents. Some people with disabilities embrace their disabilities as a part of their
identities, and the perspective of viewing the disease as things that have to be fixed can be some kind of denial of part of their existence, too.
https://clipartfest.com/categories/vie
w/8c77e6d62f4ee0f0709141da0ae96
d1593e883f4/designer-babies.html

26. Response to Titicut Follies
The state of Massachusetts tried to ban the 1967 documentary Titicut Follies, arguing that
director Frederick Wiseman had violated the patients’ rights by not getting written
permission to film them. The case went to court, and Wiseman argued that he had consent
from their legal guardian, the institution. After a judge ruled infavor of the state, the legal
appeals carried on for several years: in 1969, Massachusetts allowed the film to be shown
to doctors, lawyers, and health care professionals; in 1991, a superior court judge ruled it
could be released for the “general public.” As privacy concerns were no longer at issue, so
many years later.
Should Wiseman have been allowed to film the residents of Bridgewater Massachusetts
Correctional Facility? Why or why not? How might this film be of value to designers
(communication designers, product designers, architects, interior designers, planners,
landscape designers, systems designers, and/or social designers)? In other words, what
might they gain from this film that they could use in their work?
The link to the full documentary did not work in my laptop for some reason, so I just found some
review10
on Youtube and watched the trailer. Before I watched it I thought they should have
banned the film from being open to general publics because it did violate the patients’ rights. If
Wiseman had gotten permission from each patient’s family member then I would have thought
differently, but in this case the legal guardian was the institute and at this point I do not think the
institute would have cared for their patient’s basic human rights at all. After watching the revs
that summarized the whole film, I changed my mind because the way the institute treated their
criminally insane patients was so inhumane and violent, that it had to be spread out to the world
and raised people’s attentions to change it to be better place for them. Yet I still think Wiseman had to do something to protect the individual patient’s privacy
like covering their faces or blurring them in the film. I think designers can learn how to make better environments for people with mental disability, and how
to design the most effective system to support them and let them be engaged more in society via planning various programs the patients can participate in.
10
“Titicut Follies movie review” YouTube. March 18, 2013. Accessed May 05, 2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFcxla_CZnA
http://irreverentpsychologist.blogspot.com/201
3/10/titicut-follies-asylum-for-criminally.html

27. Response to PPT, The Architecture of Autism, Public Space
Prelude: Wolf Wolfensberger’s seminal work “The Origin and Nature of Our
Institutional Models” posited that society characterizes people with
intellectual disabilities as sub-human and burdens of charity. He argued that
this dehumanization, and the segregated institutions that result from it,
ignored the potential productive contributions that all people can make to
society. He pushed for a shift in policy and practice that recognized the human
needs of those with intellectual challenges and provided the same basic human
rights as for the rest of the population.
The Scenario: Imagine that you and your four children live in Amherst, New
York in a $650,000 home at the end of a cul-de-sac on the edge of a ten acre
woods. The town has purchased a one acre lot three houses away from yours,
and plans to build a group home for ten intellectually challenged adults. As a
resident of the neighborhood, would you support or oppose this proposal and
why?
You’ve learned additional information about the residents of the proposed group home in your neighborhood. In 2013, three of the ten intended
residents exhibited challenging behaviors including screaming, public masturbation, repetitive rocking, and echolalia (elective incontinence). However,
these behaviors have not occurred since then. How would this change your opinion about the construction of the group home in your neighborhood?
The residents in your neighborhood voted (14-3) to reject the town of Amherst’s proposal to build a group home in the neighborhood. Town officials
agreed that the home would not be built in your neighborhood if you and your neighbors could develop a workable alternative. What are some possible
solutions that would allow the residents of the home to be provided with “the same basic human rights as the rest of the population”?
As a resident in neighborhood I would support the proposal of building the group home only if the facility is built on purpose of protecting the mentally ill
people and helping them get more adopted in society. I hate myself for saying this because I feel like I am using those people but I think it will be good
opportunity to educate my kids not to discriminate people just because they have mental disability due to whatever reason like brain development retardation
that they never wanted in their lives. If the group home is for helping them then their behaviors will not be as aggressive as they used to be in the past. I cannot
really think of other good solutions to help them get more engaged into the community, but I think the early age education for other people are important so
the kids can learn what a mental disability is and how to help them. Then it will be possible to guarantee the same basic human rights for them to be treated in
humane way.
http://www.parkviewservices.org/group-home/

28. Response to the Connection Between Religion and Urban Planning by
David Engwicht
In his article, David Engwicht discusses the fact that religions (of all
types) have played major roles in the development of our cities. Today,
places of worship are primary components of almost all urban centers.
Author Lorne Daniel writes “From their often active role in supporting
people who live in city centers to their iconic influence on design and
use of space, religious structures tell us a lot about our history, our
current needs, and where we might be headed in the future. This is an
aspect of our urban future that planners and urbanists should attend
to.”
Identify a place of worship with which you are somewhat familiar. (if
you are not familiar with any places of worship, do a bit of research on
one in your own city or town.) show a photograph of this religious
structure. What roles has this place served in the development of your
city/town? How has it influenced the design of the area around it? How has its role changed over time? What roles could this place of worship play in
the future development of your city/town?
This one is a little hard for me because the city I grew up had been through massive and rapid “modernization (I personally do not call it like that, because it
was not planned by Koreans at all but was forced to happen)” during the time when the Korea was colonized by Japan. The reason they chose to make my city
big was because it was located on the midpoint of major cities. So, most of the architectures or any other kind of cultural structures in my city are not based on
any religions. Well, probably a little bit influenced by Confucianism because throughout 13th to 18th
century Korea had accepted Confucianism as its national
religions. But then at the end of 18C the Catholic and Christianity came in and since then Korea has got so many Christians that now they have the most
number of churches in this small land in the entire world. (Fun fact: The number of churches in S. Korea is greater than the number of McDonald’s in the entire
world) Despite that the Christianity had little influence on the urban planning of my city, I think it was pretty interesting that there are so many churches built
in my city. And my city has the biggest church in S. Korea which is the picture I attached below. I sued to be a Christian but I went to a different church so I
do not know a lot about this one, but I was told that because this one has one of its walls entirely in glass plates it reflects all the lights to the opposite side
where there were some apartment complexes and the residents in that apartment sued the church. I am not sure how it went but I guess either it will have to
change its own design or the apartment residents have to do something to block the excessive sunlight.
http://skytaste.blog.me/22029401732
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29. Response to Prospects for the Future of Diversity
and Design
Consider the quote in your syllabus from educator
Michael J. Shannon: “Design, as vision in action –
the intersection of understanding and creation – is
a universal human capability that can play a
fundamental role in social evolution in the process
that transforms resources, energy, and
information to make our world.”
At the beginning of this course, we discussed the
idea that we are all designers regardless of our
profession or field of study. We’ve asked some big
questions along the way, and the conclusion section
of our textbook raises additional issues that
require input from people who might not consider
themselves to be part of the formalized design professions.
Think about your own major and /or future profession. What is the biggest challenge, problem, or question that your field needs to tackle right now?
What do you plan to do to address this challenge, problem, or question either as part of your studies or professional life?
I am majoring in Biochemistry and looking forward to getting into the medical field in the future. I guess there are a lot of challenges medical field confronts
every day, but I think the biggest one would be about how to develop new and safe technology to treat some incurable diseases for human. It might be genetically
inherited and modified on the genomes, or it might be obtained in lifetime and lead the patients to death with no effective treatments. Although there are a lot
of existing technologies that have been confirmed safe and good to be performed on actual patients now, there are still hundreds of diseases that are incurable.
Also, the drugs and treatments sometimes do not work on certain patients because everyone has different genetic background and different genomic properties.
I would like to conduct some researches about clinical symptoms and possible treatments for incurable disease, and also serve the patients well so they do not
have to be in pan for long.
https://science.ubc.ca/students/programs/biochemistry