Wrapping up...

What I liked:

I enjoyed the idea of finding creative ways of adjusting someones well being. There are lots of innovative ways to do this project that utilities peoples strengths.

What I disliked:

Working in a team can always be a struggle, but it's definitely a good challenge to face!

What I learned:

To utilize my strengths wherever i see fit!

Presentation

For our presentation, I like the idea of giving the audience something to hold that comes together to create a bigger piece. By doing this we are promoting our idea of coming together.

What I would like to do is draw a heart in the "wavy lines" style our dossier will have, and chop it up into several different pieces. Handing this out to the audience, the pieces have little value to each person. However, at the end of the presentation we'll show that when the pieces come together it makes a work of art -- collectively, coming together we can create a loving environment.

Slowly through the presentation the pieces will be coming together piece by piece.

For our assignment we have created a system:

It provides an opportunity for social interaction between cross disciplinary students at Massey University.

We will create an online publication/website will include interviews with students from varying disciplines explaining assignments they may be working on, stories they would like to share and more. This celebrates the creative community while highlighting skills and assets that each student may provide.
These students will also be hosting workshops on campus that the audience may want to partake in. By interviewing the students and putting them in our digital publication we are allowing the audience to be aware of who will be running this workshop and gain a better understanding of who/what may be at the event.

Then at the workshop itself we will live stream the event using periscope, an app which links up to twitter. The livestream video will be broadcast across Massey TV screens to show the students what the workshop is like before even arriving at the event.

Through broadcasting we are spreading awareness to any student watching a screen on Massey grounds. 

Students will also have the ability to tweet about the event to further explain what the workshop is like for participants. This also helps us (the organizers) to quickly understand what is good and bad about the event we have organised so we can adjust an downfalls before they get worse.

Dossier text

PAGE 1:
The feeling of isolation in crowds leads to lack of social interaction with peers causing loneliness and less social security.
This leads to a less healthy state of wellbeing as the 5 ways to wellbeing aren't being met

Page 2: Audience
Our assignment is aimed at socially shy Massey students from varying disciplines looking to seek further information on creative subjects, but lack the assertion to get it.

Through having students partake in surveys, we understood that people would be less willing to partake in social situations if they were alone or were unsure of what an event had to offer, preventing social interaction.

PAGE 3: HOW MIGHT WE?
How might we provide an opportunity to socialise with peers from cross creative disciplines on campus to create a stronger social support that creates an educational environment.

PAGE 4 & 5: OUR PLAN

This will be achieved through creating a system that provides an opportunity for social interaction between cross disciplinary students at Massey University.

We will create an online publication will include interviews with students from varying disciplines explaining assignments they may be working on, stories they would like to share and more. This celebrates the creative community while highlighting skills and assets that each student may provide.
These students will also be hosting workshops on campus that the audience may want to partake in. By interviewing the students and putting them in our digital publication we are allowing the audience to be aware of who will be running this workshop and gain a better understanding of who/what may be at the event.

Then at the workshop itself we will live stream the event using periscope, an app which links up to twitter. The livestream video will be broadcast across Massey TV screens to show the students what the workshop is like before even arriving at the event.

Through broadcasting we are spreading awareness to any student watching a screen on Massey grounds.

Students will also have the ability to tweet about the event to further explain what the workshop is like for participants. This also helps us (the organizers) to quickly understand what is good and bad about the event we have organised so we can adjust an downfalls before they get worse.

PAGE 6: JOURNEY MAP
Our audience will find out about events by first seeing the events broadcast on the TV's around Massey so they see for themselves what the event is and the environment of the event right away. Then updates such as tweets will appear on screen as another touchpoint that explains verbally what the event will be.
Finally using hashtags (#coca) and advertising our publication link, students will be able to go online and read our publication to gain a further understanding of what we, and other Massey students have to offer

PAGE 7 : THE 'DESIRED OUTCOME':
We are hoping to capture students attention with strong visual communication so that students will be enticed to read about what Massey has to offer.
The Massey environment is very creative and very educational, but the students aren't aware of this. Our aim is to make them aware and hopefully entice them to become apart of the creative community.


PAGE 8: 5 WAYS TO WELL BEING
Of the 5 ways to well being we mostly focussed on Connect, Be Active and Learn.
Connecting with those from other discplines provides the opportunity to learn and share your own skills with others.
Being active and having something to focus on/be a part of helps the mind work through challenges of social discomfort and lonliness.
Learning helps the audience gain knowledge from peers


PAGE 9: Macro and Micro trends

Macro: Changing habits & ideas 
We are changing our audiences habits and ideas by getting them out of a routine of less social interaction, and hopefully getting them into a routine that implements a healthier, educational surrounding without forcing any change. 

Micro: Communication and sharing of ideas
Teaching and learning lets the audience share information then get more back from peers. 

PAGE 10: HOW WILL THIS CONTINUE?

Once the first monthly cycle is done, we will hopefully have gained enough feedback from our audience to understand what workshops are successful and unsuccessful, and who would be willing to partake or potentially lead this.
This will be a student led service run by students, for students. This allows more feedback and less of a social hierarchy preventing any possible social isolation.

PAGE 11: PROCESS

Through interviews, journey mapping and surveys we managed to gain an understanding that students don't tend to read the Massey magazine "Massive" because it doesn't cater to what they want to read/learn about, and they only tend to pick up the magazine if it has a visually engaging cover. 
We wanted to create a publication that was made 'by students, for students', which includes informative interviews about each student, their interests and advice they have for interested students.  

26/8/16 (start of semester 2 / 2) Reflective Diary

Lydia has joined Rachel and my group.

Rachel and I quite liked the idea of doing a "Doggy Day" from the beginning of the semester, but after our research we realise this idea did not quite cater to the needs of the audience. 

Instead of addressing the issue, this idea is just getting people together in a park and the focal point becomes the dogs.

We also liked the idea of "Bubbled Thoughts", where someone lets a balloon fly away with the persons phone number so when it pops (hopefully) someone will call the number!
However, this may produce waste, and you aren't quite sure what kind of person you will end up meeting!  As well as all this, it once again doesn't address the issue, but rather skips straight to making friends -- we certainly want to provide an opportunity for the audience member, but we also want to make sure the issue of loneliness is made apparent and through this, the audience member can connect with others.


So far outr favorite idea is called "Me Too". Based on an actual idea that was created (source here: https://segd.org/“me-too”), this activity can allow the audience to both address the issue they're facing, and also get them to connect through this issue.
Being in central cities can feel lonely when you want someone to talk to but you can't.
However, if we put people in this position where they feel comfortable enough to share their experiences with those around them and connect through these.

A similar concept to Me Too is "PostSecret", where people anonymously send in a postcard with a secret on it (source here: http://www.postsecretcommunity.com/news-faq/postsecret-story).
Things can get very grim, but through anonymous messaging it gives the senders all the more freedom to share their secrets.

Cover for Publication

For this part of this assessment we are refining the style of our publication so that it's clear what we want to communicate.
Since our theme is Synaesthetic: the mixing of the senses, which relates to our intent to mix people of cross disciplines, I want to communicate two variations of something coming together.

I want to make sure this cover is bright enough that it will stop someone in their tracks and want to know what we have to offer.

Contrasting imagery like these continues our theme of connection, while being a different styled cover.

Ex-Change

After talking to my group, they suggested the publication catch the eye of the audience. Consider the environment around the publication, and around the screens which will be broadcasting our events.
We need to show whats going to come in the future, not present whats happened in the past.

Through this information, we will create a stimulating cover.