Food for Thought Exercise 1(3 questions)-Tricia/Peter/Ezra

1. As a group, please develop three questions that, in tandem, you believe would provide valuable insight into a current challenge facing the world you will occupy once you are no longer at The New School.

How do you feel about the United States accepting Syrian refugees?

Should religion be part of the screening process for immigration?

What worries you most about the future of the United States?

2. Individually, create a bullet pointed list of three to five aspects of the practice you plan to pursue that might influence or provide a means to addressing those challenges.

PETER:

•  Parsons has taught me the design process of identifying a problem and working to discover solutions
  
•  I have learned how to not only think in terms of the individual user, but also broader user groups, and how a single design can affects on many different people
  
•  I have learned that something small can create big impact
  
•  I have learned how to take broad, abstract problems and distill them into real tangible things that people can identify with
  
• I have learned that design can apply to everything

TRICIA: 

Aspects of illustration that influence/address these challenges-

•   Graphic visual representations of information, situations or knowledge intended to present information quickly and clearly
  This can take on the form of editorial illustrations, animation, info graphics etc.
  
• Visual communication as a tool in print production and social media
  
•  Ability to influence the environmental and ethnic tolerance to younger generation i.e. animation and illustration(children’s book/coloring books/toy design)

EZRA:

· Fast Fashion vs Sustainability - Fashion industry is designed to make people feel “out of trend” in one week. People who cannot afford expensive fashionable items can have a low self-esteem among their peers. Create a sub-culture in fashion that celebrates inexpensive but pragmatic ideology (anti-name brand).

· Connecting with my last point, people celebrates this “culture” would wear these clothing more to show their personality and less about “trends” thats going on in the fashion industry.

· Inspiration for Problem Solving - Trends that could address current issues. Fashion more like “art” in the sense that people would be more aware of the specific issue and want to do something about it.