reseach 4th year

This week I spoke to a lot of people, and found some reference. Theres a scene in a series of 13 reasons that talks about how 'we on only put up suicide posters when someone commits suicide'. Why is it that we only put up things up when something bad happens? I spoke to a person who is in the ministry of health about the youth that come through there facility, the issue was that there is a very low percentage of pacific people coming through which is problematic due to the amount of pacific suicide that go on through each year. This week I am working on the dossier and the work that goes in the dossier. What is important and the techniques of a good dossier. I am still writing my proposal and still exploring the influences of suicide and how design is lacking in the field of health ministry. NZ suicide stats is getting worse and worse each year and NZ as a whole has the problem of keeping silence when there is suicide in the family or community. Especially pacific/ Maori fami

This week we looked into how we might want to approach our project in the dossier and the layout of the dossier. I talked to Lee Jensen about my project and how I could approach. He had given me really good direction to look at and for me to do more research. I had looked at family disconnection and acceptance of the new era by the old pacific/maori tradition and also the christianity faith. People find it hard to accept change and want to withhold what they believe in and what they know. Lee suggested designing a story or an illustrated book. Suicide is kinda heavy and it  is about finding that gap which I could use to approach the topic a different way. Accepting that the whole process of suicide and to solve this issue is complicated. Even raising more awareness is difficult due to the law of the media. The whole issue is complicated. The next step is maybe designing a series of posters or whatever. maybe a book, but also looking out to how other countries deal with the issue of

This week we had another critique with tutors and students critiquing each others work. I got really good feedback from students and how I could improve my project and move forward to the next step. I have my audience and everything else but just need to talk and and a conversation with people who are in the industry of mental health and suicide. I talked to Kerry Ann and she also suggested connecting with people and also have another look at my audience if it is the right audience. I have looked at what sorta design I want to carry out this project and I thought a more youthful design and more modern to connect to the new era of pacific and maori youth. People understand there is a change in society and the old tradition pacific/maori are finding it hard to accept the changes youth are going through which cause stress on our youth. We need the parents to be more connected to there children and be more understanding of the changes.

First week back from break and during the break I did some research and looked at my project deeper and tried to narrow my project to a comfortable space to work with.  We went deep into our project with peers and other people in the class to discuss the possible design outcomes that we could work on. We presented A1 of our work, and looked around at what everyone else in upto in there project. I wanted to present how I was going to engage the audience in my subject matter, Exploring the different ideas within community and why the ideas of suicide is ignored and not talked about, especially in pacific island communities. “I am a Visual communicator exploring existing/ new to challenge the system around suicide prevention, through___________”     I think the reason people do not know about these suicide prevention campaigns is that they are lacking in design communication and lacking in letting people know that they exist. The issue is suicide, why is it happening? NZ has