Jaymatter

The Red Communicationist Party

As part of the process of a 4th year course that I’m taking at SFU’s SIAT campus, my class team and I have been thinking about possible projects to fulfill an 8 month capstone project. The project should follow values formed by our group as well as use technology in its implementation. The final project piece should be marketable in some way to be the most successful in the eyes of our professors.

Some of the discussion to discover our preferred form for this project have considered surfacing social and urban issues in our own locale, in the hopes of raising general public awareness and discourse. Issues related to these are something that have really directed my path through life for years, especially in my multiple choices to leave a career or thriving freelance business and return to school. If the success of a community can be measured in part by the general happiness and well being of the people in it (rather than the financial success, but that’s a whole other topic), then should not the people in the community be interested in the happiness and well being of the people living around them? And if there is an issue or group of people that need attention in a community, how do you tell that story to the community around it in a way that evokes action from the people hearing the story?

There are questions relating to narrative and experience here. The work that I’m doing now with Emily Carr University and in school at SFU are allowing me the opportunity to think about how design and technology can fit around these questions.

Here’s a link through to our process site for this project.