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Thursday, February 09, 2006

4 ideas for sale :)

Hi class
I’ve got some different ideas for either a 'collective action' or a 'case study' project.

The ACTION projects could be:

Integration
I would like to work with some kind of alternative ’integration’ project.
The aim would be to make an event or a product that will INCLUDE people; get people to come together and work together in a project where everybody can participate equally (there shouldn’t be a system-client relationship). The message should be communicated through ACTIONs rather than words.
I think that an interesting ‘target group’ could be women and maybe kids.
I have many different ideas to what the case could be, but I’m off course very open!
.. Could be a cook-book, a product line (e.g. food, cloth, jewellery), a festival, an ‘upside-down-integration’ with Danes living in a refugee camp or ghetto, an art project, a poster campaign …

or
Health
I think that HEALTH could be an interesting subject for a serious design project. Whether it’s a small local problem (e.g. better food in the schools) or a large scale global problem (e.g. AIDS or hunger vs. overweight), there’ll be plenty of problems to deal with.
Maybe the Imagine Cup could be used as a frame for developing such a project. Imagine Cup is a competition which aim is to use IT to improve conditions around the globe, this year the theme is health.
“Imagine a world where technology enables us to live healthier lives,” is a challenge to the world’s top student technologists to actively contribute to the mission of improving health around the world. Health means different things to different people. You may think of health as a medical breakthrough. Or you may think of health simply as a clean glass of water. In the Imagine Cup, you define health and decide how to use technology to make a real difference in the lives of people everywhere.“
www.imaginecup.com

or
For CASE studies I’ve thought about:

Serious Clothing
or
Serious Drinking

In the docs linked to, I've described some specific cases. These could also be used as inspiration and background for an activist project.

Please feel free to comment and develop these ideas!!

:) Sophie

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