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2n Presentation Thesis Mood/Board
I’m writing about my thesis idea and finally it’s more realistic. Three months to develop a new project is quite difficult and challenging. Many people have been working on their idea since they started school, but I decided throughout the master take different sets of classes to gain diverse skills to help communities. I took some programming, video and several design classes including solar design and design for Unicef, hoping that they will help me achieve my goal.
My background is as a visual artist and sometimes my solution to solving social issues has been a creative response and not so much a practical one. After working in the most recent project with Latin-American immigrants: “Do you have a dream?”, I realized that I spent most of the time doing managing and administrative stuff like sending emails, phone calls, writing proposals for each school, etc. I got stuck waiting for responses of people or cancellations in the last minute. I understand this is a good part of project development so three months is definitely not the right time frame to develop a social project.
I have this great opportunity to work with Issa Nyaphga and his village in Cameroon. One of the ideas was to work in an educational tool that would help prevent HIV/aids, cholera and malaria. After I showed the presentation to my class, I started working and creating a timeline of tasks and future obstacles that I could encounter. I found myself confined in stress and anxiety because of the amount of work and the short time I have (two months and three weeks). It was irresponsible with the community and myself if I didn’t spend the right time doing the right research. I decided to experiment with the media, visualization and data so I can develop as much as possible and not have limitations of working with a particular community. I usually work from the particular to the universal but at this time I will do the opposite.
I will keep working on AIDS, Malaria and Cholera but using, simulations, visualizations, data and tones of creativity. My goal is in three months to have a visualization that will collect all this data in a fun a creative way in one application.
Bellow is my mood board that might give you an idea of what is the feeling I want to achieve:
2nd thesis presentation mood/inspiration board from Lina Maria Giraldo on Vimeo.