Project 3 ARC 211 American Diversity and Design

1. University at Buffalo
ARC 211- American Diversity and
Design- Spring 2017
Online Discussion Questions
Mariah Booker

2. Introduction of Myself:
Hi Everyone, My name is Mariah and
I'm a sophomore and my major is
International Studies. One
interesting fact about me is I
have worked and will be working
again as a Venue Assistant at New
York Fashion Week. :)
http://media.breitbart.com/media/2017/02/Hasibu
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http://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/MK-BX1
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3. Response to “What is Design?” from Hello
World On “What is design?” from Hello
World: Where Design Meets Life by Alice
Rawsthron.
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? Were any groups negatively
impacted by this innovation?
An invention I automatically thought of was the cotton gin,
which was invented by Eli Whitney in 1793 and patented in 1794.
The cotton gin was a machine that separated the cotton fibers
from its seeds allowing the productivity of cotton to speed up.
This was a big and great invention in the United States but it
also increased the number of African American slaves in the
south as the demand for cotton increased. This means more and
more slaves were being taken away from their families to still
go pick cotton in the fields they just had a more convenient
machine to separate the seeds. This design of the cotton gin has
a positive outlook but some social issues still weren't going to
get resolved "slavery."
http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/49800/49824/49824_co
tton_gin.htm

4. Response to “Introduction” from Diversity and Design.Describe a design that was impacted by a
diversity group. How and why did it change form and/or circumstances?
A design that was impacted by a group of
individuals was the Civil Rights act of
1964. This act abolished segregation in
public places and employment
discrimination of the work place based on
your skin color or religion. This act was
made due to the civil rights movement who
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had a big part
in leading this. Blacks or African
Americans would stage sit in’s in White
Only restaurant and wouldn't be served.
Whites would call them all types of
horrible names throw food and drinks at
them. They would also do peaceful marches
or protests which would result in them
being fire hosed by policemen and
firemen. African Americans were so hated
because of the color of their skin. Even
though segregation is over some
individuals are still racists especially
with the actions of the new leader of our
country. We just have to keep spreading
the peace.https://i.ytimg.com/vi/sQsVVYpY6pI/hq
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5. Response to Media/Society
Chapter TED Talk on
Photographs. Identify a
mass media photograph
taken in your own lifetime
that has served as an icon
of an event. What roles
does this photo play in
the communication of the
event?
https://ublearns.buffalo.edu/courses/1/2171_14992_CO
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The images in that were shown in the Ted Talk Video
Photos That Changed the World, I think would be
categorized in the historical and iconic photo genre. If
we did not see some of those pictures shown in the video
we wouldn't know about half of the things that go on in
the world. For example the earthquake in Haiti, the
killings of the gorillas in the Congo media have its
purpose. If media was limited the whole world would not
be the same, we wouldn't know where to get our
information. For the most part we would be uneducated.
One picture I thought of is when a gentlemen named Kevin
Berthia was about to jump off the golden gate bridge and
a White police officer talked him out of jumping. I
thought this picture was so important because here you
have a white police officer trying to get a black man
from killing himself. From the recent killings by police
officers and black men it was just satisfying to see one
police officer doing something good for a black man. This
photo plays a role in communication design because it
puts your mind in a different perspective like what if
that was me and what if someone was trying to get me from
jumping. You just never know what’s going on in a
person’s life.

6. Response to Articles on Hats as
Communication Design.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?
The Communication designs for both of these hats have some similar and different meanings for the world to
respond to them. Let’s take Trump's campaign hat first thing the eye sees is the bright red, which catches people
eye. Then the red also stands for the Republican Party in which more Republican people will flock to. And the
third thing is the capitalized bold letters which men’s the statement is something you should read that is
important. The last thing about this hat statement is it was previously from Ronald Ragan's campaign and many
Americans believed that he was an excellent President so in picking Trump and wearing his hat people think they
will get the same outcome. The Pink cat ears hat stands for something that women believe is very important for
this country to know, Equality. The pink hat's importance is the color because it is a feminine color. Second the
shape of it is a cat ear, which can also be called pussy ears. The hat also relates back to a comment made by our
President about grabbing women by their pussies. The hat isn't trying to make the comment more negative it's to
say that women will not back down from Trump or any other men. These hats are similar because of their both
bright colors that catch our eyes and the strong statements that go along with them. These hats are different
because one is pointing towards trying to make America better like it was before. One is trying to develop women
unity all over the world.
http://static6.businessinsider.com/imag
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march-on-washington.jpg

7. Response to “Industrial Design” by John
Heskett and “The Incredible Inventions of
Intuitive Al” by Maurice Conti. 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? 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?
Henry Ford's T-Model car changed US society because the government made
roads for his cars, people didn't have to use boats or the trains anymore
and it was very affordable. People could finally go anywhere they want
without having to pay for it. People got around so much easier and the
T-Model was definitely efficient and also the US highway system. Some
social consequences his production line was faced with was how to do
mechanical engineering to construct the car together. Then there was always
a chance of your vehicle breaking down and that would be another bill for
consumers to have to pay. Some of these changes are still with us in
today's society for example we still have to pay for repairs on our car. We
can still travel all around the country because of our excellent highway
system. The manufacturing process will most likely change because robots
are becoming more efficient in factories and if us humans teach them they
could possibly become smarter than us. This will change US society because
some jobs could be lost because robots could be doing people's job.
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8. Response to IDEA Awards 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 Braungart?
One of the IDEA Gold Awards that really defy the
Cradle-to-Cradle concept was the Suncubator concept.
The Cradle-to-Cradle concept was about using our
resources usefully and not wasting anything. The
suncubator solar powered beds were for babies that
live in Africa under harsh temperatures at night.
Africa during the day would be very hot then would
drop down to 30 degrees and babies would catch
hypothermia very easily. This bed sits in the day in
the sun and at night you put the baby in it and it
keeps them warm. These beds are made out of foam so
it’s soft on the babies skin and it's an oval shape
to keep the heat in. Here we have a product where
you don't need any energy to use and its very
efficient and I doubt people would waste these.
http://blog.theapollobox.com/2016/08/09/
solar-baby-bed/

9. Response to all Module 4 Materials.
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?
One work of architecture that has sensibilities about
the future is the Dulles International Airport. Eero
Saarinen had a very different eye for his work of
architecture and this airport was built in 1962. At
this time air travel was a privilege and he made this
airport especially for jets and people enjoyed going to
this airport. The way he designed this airport was very
different, he made the roof of the airport lay on the
sides of the building so it had like a cave like
feeling inside. He also made the walls with complete
glass, this airport was very modern and he understood
what modernist architecture could look like. Also
inside he had moving lounges so people wouldn't have to
be walking so far to get to their terminal he was
thinking only about the people when designing this
airport. Later on many other architects tried to copy
Eero style of architecture but still couldn't seem to
get it right.
The Virginia State Capitol building designed
by Thomas Jefferson has many sensibilities
about the past of the world. The tradition of
government building looking like roman and
Greek temples started in Richmond, Virginia
by Thomas Jefferson because he hated the
Georgian style of architecture. He wanted
this building to have a grand entrance with
precise pillars and flawless steps and this
building was actually a copy of the roman
temple Maison Carree not that I'm saying he
wasn't original but his building was more
neater than the roman temple. The steps made
it feel like you were actually walking into a
temple and the whiteness of the building made
it hard for you to miss it. This building was
the start of the roman temple like government
buildings.
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https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe
dia/commons/9/9c/Virginia_State_
Capitol_Building_2.jpg

10. https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2016/06/pet
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Response to Ballantyne
and Zumthor Articles. How
are Ballantyne’s and
Zumthor’s viewpoints on
architecture alike? More
importantly, how do they
differ?
Ballantyne and Zumthor both believe that the buildings
that we go in each day are apart of everyday lives and
our everyday habitats and we should live every moment we
can because these places affects us. Ballantyne focuses
more on the building and how it affects us humans. For
example he talks about being invited into a building
aesthetic qualities and how we should value more than
taking a picture of a building to remember it. We should
remember these beautifully architecture buildings that
we go in everyday. Zumthor thinks of a more spiritual
way of architecture and people. He believes that we
should connect and be invested with the buildings that
we see everyday. He says, "When I work on a design I
allow myself to be guided images and moods that I can
relate to a kind of architecture." p.25 He thinks human
beings and buildings should eventually become one.
Zumthor, Peter. Thinking Architecture.
Publishers for Architecture. Print.

11. Response to Levy Article. How did planning define the character of the place
in which you grew up?
I was born and raised in Buffalo, New York, and I would say I lived
mostly on the East side of Buffalo. Now Buffalo back then was a huge
trading dock between countries because of the canal we have downtown.
Since we are little a hop, skip, and a jump away from Canada they became
one of our traders. Buffalo was also a big steel plant area in which my
grandfather worked at but that time quickly left us. Now where I Iived in
Buffalo was close to Bailey Ave., which was a very busy street that was
mostly filled with black people. On most of the streets I lived on all
the houses were similar and you could easily walk to the corner store and
get some candy. The neighborhoods I grew up in were particularly African
American it's not like we didn't want white people to live near us they
just never did. Bailey Ave. has everything you can imagine furniture
stores, grocery's store, hair products, you name it. There was a lot of
culture around not much diversity and me but at the time I just thought
it was normal for black people to live near black people and white people
to live near white people. Some parts of the east side are pretty rough
and I do feel like they try to keep all the bad people in the same areas.
I feel like there was more than one creator for the city of Buffalo
because there are so many different neighborhoods and different people
living in them. Whoever the creator was for the east side of Buffalo knew
what they were doing. The attached image is the separation of
neighborhoods in Buffalo.
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12. Response to Pruitt Igoe Project, Talen, Larson. Identify three strategies for rebuilding
Pruitt Igoe in ways that promise to be more successful.
Even though the Pruitt and Igoe homes were great when they were first build the
government didn't plan this right at all. Some strategies that I have come up with to
make the Pruitt and Igoe homes better were there should've been a labor union doing
the repairs on the building. There’s one company in Buffalo named Buffalo Municipal
Housing Authority and they take care of everything that goes wrong in the "projects."
There should be a police force designed only for Pruitt and Igoe residents since the
regular police stopped showing up. The buildings shouldn't have been so tall they
should've been a little shorter and wider so the apartments could have been bigger.
One thing that I know Larson would do is to set up many different Pruitt and Igoe
homes all over St. Louis and not just in that one place. He would also have many
shops and stores around the apartments because he really emphasized in his Ted talk
that he wanted people to enjoy the outside. Having everything at either a 10 to 20
minute walk so people could get around easily. Talen would make sure that not just
one race was living in all of these buildings. Talen has a lot to say about mixing
housing so that there could be more diversity in the neighborhoods. They could even
put up one Pruitt and Igoe home in a each different neighborhood and I know that
people would move into them, or an even more smart idea is put a Pruitt and Igoe home
downtown because people want to live in the urban city and that would attract all
different kinds of people to move in. These strategies are different because the
downfall of the Pruitt and Igoe homes was it was not kept up by maintenance. Violence
started to spread through the building and around it. There shouldn't have been any
restrictions on who can live in the house and what could you have in the house. The
government wanted to control these people living in Pruitt and Igoe homes. These
strategies are better because it’s just like you having your first apartment and the
freedom and if all different kinds of people are living in these apartments it could
create friendships.
https://misspreservation.
files.wordpress.com/2011/
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13. Response to F. L. Olmsted.
"Buffalo is the best planned
city, as to its streets,
public places, and grounds,
in the United States, if not
in the world." What was the
basis for this claim? Would
Olmsted still make that
claim today?
The reason that Fredrick Law Olmsted believed that Buffalo was the best planned city for one of
his most famous works was because, Buffalo was a rising bustling city that was thriving and he
thought that we needed some parks. He choose three places where there were paths to each of the
parks so it wouldn't seem like you left the park. One thing that Olmsted did with Central Park is
it was a huge park full of trees and greenery. With Delaware Olmsted Parks he has three
individual parks where you can relax, walk, and take your dog to. I don't think Olmsted would
still make this claim today because in the video Humbolt Parkway used to be filled with trees and
grass. Now Humbolt Parkway is an expressway filled with cars and Olmsted would have been very
disappointed that we changed it. One thing that he would be proud of is Canalside because it has
been redone and even though it's not a park it’s a landscape architect, which has been a
beautiful contribution to downtown buffalo
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14. Response to Walter Hood’s Work. Identify something that should be memorialized either on UB's
campus or in your hometown.
Something that I think should be memorialized in
Buffalo is Hoyt Lake, which is right behind the
Albright Knox art gallery. Hoyt Lake is actually
apart of Olmsted parks. This area is a lake where
people can canoe and it’s just a couple of benches
around the lake. What I am envisioning for this
space is a dog park, a trail for people to jog, and
more sittings areas. This is a place where people
often walk their dogs or jog or take wedding
pictures. Out of the 20 years of my life I have
never seen a dog park in the city of Buffalo. For
sittings areas I would like to incorporate some of
Seattle Washington's Freeway park architecture in
different of the park. The architecture would make
seats for people to see a different view from the
lake and the greenery scene. This really is a place
where people come to relax and do homework since
Buffalo State is right on the other side of the art
gallery. It would bring a different feel to the way
people come to the park. This landscape would
memorialize William B. Hoyt who was a politician
from New York. I will attach both pictures of each
park so you can kind of see what my vision looks
like.
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15. 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. Find another iconic graphic that
addresses racial issues and post it for others in your group to
view.
I interpret this photo as a bunch of white racist people going
to see these black men being lynched as a social gathering
because it seems like many of these young white people are on a
date. This most likely happened during the time of 1882-1968
and sometimes it wasn't just black people being lynched. If a
white person tried to help a black person they would be
lynched. The meaning of this photo is whites back in the day
could literally do anything to black people without being
persecuted by the police because everyone was against the
"colored folk." Now a person from a different racial and
cultural background would most likely say about this picture
"oh they probably did something to deserve being lynched." This
person would most likely be white and not have very much
education and has lived in the south their whole life. This is
what is so wrong with America today because so many people are
so uneducated and clueless about the past and what happened
down south. Another point, many of America's kids are raised to
be prejudice or racist against a certain group it doesn't have
to necessarily be black people. These differences in
interpretations are how you were raised, what race you are,
what type of person you are and so on and so forth.
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16. Response to Charles Davis and equityXdesign's Work. Critique either
the MLK Memorial or the National Museum of African American History
and Culture using equityXdesign’s core beliefs and/or design
principles
The National Museum of African American History and Culture designed
by Adjaye is a beautiful piece added to the Washington D.C. mall of
museum but not everyone loved how it was designed. Jack Travis
publicly critiqued Adjaye work and said, "the facade's perforated
copper corona fails to visualize the racial traumas and struggles
minorities have faced in the United States." (pg. 29) But that was
just one person’s opinion and he was only talking about the outside
of the building. The inside of the museum includes parts of African.
Haitian, African American, and Caribbean cultures and also official
documents from the Civil Rights Movements. The facts and products
were all within the museum. Inside the museum you can see how
Africans American history has evolved and what we had to go through
to get where we at now. Not that I'm saying America is a perfect
friendly country but we have come a long way.
Tauke, Beth, Korydon H. Smith,
and Charles L. Davis.
Diversity and Design:
Understanding Hidden
Consequences. New York:
Routledge, 2016. Print.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012
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17. Response to “Landscape Stories. 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’.
The only thing that I can think of that represents my ethnic background, is we cook a lot of soul food for
every holiday. My ethnic background is African American. But other than that I have regular rooms in my house
but what I can say is my house has a lot of pictures of old family members that have passed away. We like to
remember our loved ones by seeing their pictures everyday. I feel like yes I would keep pictures in my home so
my kids will remember their grandparents. The neighborhood in where I grew up was mostly for my ethnic
background. I grew up kind of on the east side of Buffalo and there were many hairdressers for people with my
kind of hair for instance braiding hair salons. There were a lot of Baptist churches around my house which kind
of goes hand and hand with my ethnic group. There were mainly black kids on my street so I would say the
developers of my neighborhood wanted the same type of people to stick together. A cultural influence of an
underrepresented group would be Muslims living in a black neighborhood but them having their own mosque temple
to pray at. The neighborhood I live in now is very diverse and I feel like it will grow in diversity as time
goes on.
http://www.joplinglobe.com/love
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18. Response to articles on Sports branding. Recent
controversies about sports branding focus on ethnicity.
Should sports team branding designers use ethnic
references (Fighting Irish, Boston Celtics, Atlanta
Braves, etc.)?
I feel like sports teams should stay away from those
types of names because it can be offensive to people
of that race or ethnic group. For example Washington
Redskins, redskin is a derogatory name for a Native
American that was used by people back in the day and
now its being praised for a football team. Like I
don't think these team owners understand whom their
offending. Even though some people of that ethnic
group might say oh it's all right it doesn't offend
me deep down it probably does. In a town near Buffalo
a high school team is called the Lancaster Redskins
and there was a big issue on the name and so many
people that went to the school thought it was no big
deal. Probably because it was a dominantly white
school with hardly any Native American students to
speak out.
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19. Response to “Visualizing Gender” Chapter. Find a new example of either of the two visual
advocacy approaches to gender issues, and post it in this thread.
The approach that Christopher used in this photo is get the
idea. The picture is of a man wearing jewelry cooking with
some dough. The reason as to why the man is wearing nail
polish and jewelry is because cooking is often portrayed as
a women's role. But men can cook sometimes and I guess wear
jewelry at the same time. This is an effective approach
because women do sometimes get tired of always being the
one to cook and to have a man in that place is refreshing
and I don't think cooking should be stuck on one gender. I
think the picture could be improved by showing the women
lying down on the couch and actually seeing the full body
of the man cooking.
Harrity, Christopher. "The Art of the 'Gender Bender Festival'."
ADVOCATE. N.p., 20 Oct. 2014. Web. 06 Apr. 2017.

20. Response to Bathroom Bill.
Should people be required
to use the bathroom that
corresponds with the
biological gender written
on their birth
certificate?
http://www.mydoorsign.com/blog
/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Al
l-Gender-Restroom-Sign.gif
In arguing that people should use the bathroom that corresponds to their biological sex they were assigned to
at birth: A lot of Americans are very religious and traditional and they do not want urban or modern changes
in their lives. That has to go along with people identifying themselves as the opposite sex. With people
being against transgender their very passionate and could feel uncomfortable with a guy walking into the
girls bathroom. With Americans having their strong views they could make an uproar as to a guy walking into
the ladies room while their young daughter is in there.
In arguing against that people should not use the bathroom corresponding to their biological sex they were
assigned to at birth: I'm all for people expressing themselves as what they are. I feel like the non-gender
bathrooms are a great part of the new world we are living in. If people feel as though they are a women when
they were born a man then so be it. It is people’s free choice to do whatever they want and to go wherever
they want and to use the bathroom which they think is best fit for them. This world needs to break away from
the social norms and accept everyone for who they are.

21. Response to Hidden Ways. 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.
I have one picture that identifies with Crusty. I took the
first picture at Highgate Heights School, which has a gate
around the playground, and no one from the outside can get
in. Now there are no cameras surrounding the playground
but you can't get into the playground unless you’re in
school. The 1st
picture is an example of jittery and it's
on Buffalo State campus, which is in the city. The campus
is really open for anyone to come in and there are cameras
around the campus. It's really just for the well being of
the students to make sure no one gets mugged or anything.
The bench is also made of steel so in the winter it will
be cold so homeless people won’t try and sleep there.

22. https://globalvoices.org/wp-content/upl
oads/2011/11/110822_Dadaab_0408-hand-on
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Response to People like us. 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?
Well first thing first I would have Tammy and her whole
family to take etiquette and speech classes because when
you are trying to apply for job the employers looks at
how you speak and how you present yourself. Next thing I
would do is give Tammy an annual allowance so she can get
groceries buy her kids school supplies and clothes. Since
her son says she wear the Burger King outfit everyday.
Since her son tries to act and dress middle class I would
have them sit down and talk so maybe he can teach his mom
some things. They would definitely move out of that
trailer and into an apartment building that wouldn't be
too expensive and we would help her with the first couple
payments but she would have to get a real good paying job
to cover the other months rent. Each of the family members
would go to the dentist because people always say they can
remember you by your smile, and also bad looking teeth is
a sign of poverty and low hygiene. I feel like all of
these things would have a great outcome for the family and
for their living style.

23. Response to Caroll 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?
I feel like the elderly of the Regent Park
apartments should be integrated with people of all
ages in the apartments. By putting them in a
different building they are being isolated by the
youth of Toronto. I would have the elderly and
their extended families in the same building, so
that they could easily babysit. I would also have
activities for the whole building to participate
in in the social lounge so no one would be left
out. I would ask the elderly what could we do to
make the apartments feel more like a community
like it used to before the renovation. Since they
were going to be in a building by themselves not
near anything I would have them on the main
streets so they wouldn't have to go far and also
in the first five floors so they wouldn't have to
go up so far.
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24. Response to Enriquez TED Talk: “What will
Humans Look like in 100 years? 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?
If the lifespan of people in the world grew to 120
years old I feel a lot of positive and some
negatives would have to be changed. I feel like
people will work more in their later years since
people are living longer so people won't be
getting their pensions until later in life. I feel
like more elderly facilities would have to be made
because we already have many now but, for people
that live past one hundred would need like a
special type of living facilities. Since the
elderly homes are so poorly run today the people
working in them would have to meet certain
qualifications. Elderly could contract more
diseases that you can only get where your that
age. But then on the other hand I feel like
society will prosper because maybe we can start
putting our children into school earlier so they
can have more knowledge. If people start living to
120 years old there could maybe be some genetic
mutation differences than on a young person like
for example people can start growing tails on
their bodies. So I guess living longer could have
positive and some negative effects on the human
body. By that time that person will have so much
wisdom because they lived through so much in
history.
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25. Response to PPT, Smithsonian, and
Roy. 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?
I choose to do the size and space approach and the first picture is a public bus that has a lot
of room and space in case someone in a wheelchair needs to get on. The second picture is of a
school bus for kids and there's a very narrow aisle for people to walk through. What if a kid in
a wheelchair needed to get on where would they sit and how could you fit their wheel chair on the
bus. I feel like the first picture empowers the disabled people to not just sit in the house and
go some places on a bus. The second picture disempowers people because that child might be made
fun of if they had to be carried on the bus rather than walk. An even better idea for the first
picture would be is to have a designated space for disabled in wheelchairs so they would have
even more room. I think this new bus outline could benefit people not being in wheelchairs if
they have for example a big poster project that they don't want to mess up they could have space
for that. If the school didn't want to put a lot of money into remodeling the buses I would say
definitely the aisle space be aligned because it is very narrow. Then maybe turning some seats to
face the aisle as well.
http://cdn-sas.secondavenuesagas
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26. Response to Survey, FIXED, and Stelarc. 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?
Okay so first thing I think we should focus on regarding enhancement technologies and reproductive technologies is
the safety of the human body. I feel like we need to do extensive research on how these enhancements would work
with our body how it would affect it etc. Some positive consequences on designing our body could be a completely
different mammal than everyone else. Some negative effects on designing our bodies are it can make us very ill.
For example the guy with the ear on his arm he said he would have to go through a couple more procedures to fully
operate the ear. What if the ear on his arm gets infected and it spreads through his whole body and he dies.
Honestly I think having an ear on your arm is insane but whatever floats his boat. That's just the same as plastic
surgery like implants can grow a bacterium in them and you could become very ill as well. An ethical quandary I
could think of is how people would treat a person with technology enhancement or body parts not in the right
place. Some people would think it’s great if you literally got metal legs sewn into your legs but some people
might think it's weird if you have an ear on your arm. I guess it all depends on what type of person you are and
how comfortable you are with your body. If you want to change it go ahead if you don't keep what you have.
http://www.ancient-origins.net/site
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27. Response to Titicut Follies. 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?
I honestly do not feel like the men at the Massachusetts
Correctional Facility should have been filmed. First they were
fully naked with no clothes and their rooms only had a thin
plastic jail bed. Second why did they call it a correctional
facility, it was obvious that all the men had some type of
mental illness so they needed some type of different care. The
officers were antagonizing the patients making them get upset
and I really doubt that everyone of the inmates guardians gave
them permission to be in the film. I think what designers can
gain from this film is how you could design the different rooms
in psychiatric hospitals, the type of people that need to be
working in the hospitals. A person needs some type of patience
to work with the physically mentally ill and the non-physical
mentally ill. This film could really open up some designers
eyes to see how things used to be and how badly treated this
patients were.
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28. Response to PPT, The Architecture of Autism, Public Space.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”?
Living in this neighborhood I would not have a problem with a group home being built because on the street
Iive on now has a group home and they don't bother the neighborhood. I honestly feel like the people living
in this group home wouldn't affect me living there. After hearing about the things that some of the group
members do I would be a little worried for my children to either see or hear them. I don't think my kids
would be in any danger but it's just somethings that children shouldn't see. If my neighborhood voted
against the group home being built I would make a suggestion. The group home could have sound proof walls so
no one would be woken up by the screams. I mean you really can't stop someone from publicly masturbating so
I mean the workers would just have to stop the person as soon as they see it happening. Other than that I
have no other suggestions for this group home being built in my neighborhood.
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29. Response to The Connection Between Religion
and Urban Planning by David
Engwicht.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. (You may use photographs from the
web.) 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?
A place of worship that I looked up was the Wat Traimit in Bangkok, Thailand. Inside of the
temple there is a golden Buddha statue where people can go in and pray to, It is also a very
big tourist attraction to go see. The head of the statue is egg-shaped so that means it came
from the Sukothai period. Because this Buddha was so magnificent and gold it had to be
plastered down so no one would steal it. The statue was moved around various times because they
did not have a big enough building to store it but they soon built the Wat Traimit. On February
14, 2010 the temple was announced and also had Chinatown Heritage Centre in it as well. The
Buddha is sat in the traditional pose of Bhumisparsha Mudra and that symbolizes Buddha as
spiritual energy. The temple influenced the area around it by making more people to come and
pray to the Buddha and see the heritage from Chinatown. The role changed over time because the
statue was moved so many more times before it ended up in Wat Traimit now it has more
significance. I feel like if more people go and visit Thailand and this temple maybe some
people will convert to Buddhism and expand the Buddhist faith.
https://thaizer.smugmug.com/Tha
iland/Bangkok/i-BmXHg77/0/L/Wat
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30. Response to Prospects for the
Future of Diversity and
Design.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?
Since my major is International Studies and that kind of has to deal with the government of
other countries I want to do something different within my future profession. What I really
want to do is become a stylist/ fashion merchandiser and my biggest challenge right now is
my location because there's so many more opportunities in New York City and Los Angeles and
in Europe. The first thing I'm going to do to tackle this problem is keep doing New York
Fashion Week as a venue assistant and then study abroad my senior year since I'll already be
done with my major. I just really need to get myself out there and network honestly and with
my major I need to know a second language so a stylist that knows more than one language is
a plus.
https://alphacityguides.com/
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