Interview with Daphne part 01-questions

Designer and educator is one of the target who we want to interview.  I’m pleased to interview with Daphne today, who is a designer studying the PHD of Applied Communication in RMIT and an instructor in JinWen University of science and Technology in Taiwan.

Here are the questions that we would like to ask Daphne: 

1) My group mates and me are working on our media brief, which are about sustainable environment; more about recycle to build a green environment. 

2) How do you think about global warming and the environment education in
Australia? Have you ever create a topic as global warming to your students in
Taiwan before? 

3) During our discussion, we believe advertising is more likely a media that has the responsibility to convey information about the environment, do you agree with us? 

4) We would like to know from a designer and educator perspective, you being a conceptual communicator, how will you convey the information about recycle and global warming to your audience, which allow them to effectively proceed the aim of building a sustainable future? 

5) As a designer do you think it is your responsibility to educate your audience to effectively understand the meaning of recycle and push them collaboratively build a sustainable future? 

6) How can designer convey the graveness of global warming to public? 

7) As we know, since last year people only start to concern on the global warming issue. The crisis that the earth is encountering will lead the earth to lack of natural resources, will this influence you in conveying message to your audience? 

8 ) What kind(s) of method can educate people to aware about the graveness of global warming? 

9) Do you think the media are the major resource to let people to be aware the issue of global warming? Whose responsibility do you think is to educate people about global warming knowledge? The media? School? Or the government? 

10 ) Do you think global warming is a kind of cause and effort to reflect people’s behaviors?

 

to be continued….

Reflection on “An inconvenient truth”

After watching “An inconvenient truth”, I realize global warming is a kind of cause and effort to reflect people’s behaviors- What people have done, what the climate will return. The alarm has occurred for several years ago, but people seem to treat them as nothing. Like what Al Gore mentions in “An inconvenient truth”, seems like there are some hiding in the bottom of people’s mind to block them not to care about this issue. I feel it can be due to the selfishness of people that they don’t really want to debase their living standard for global warming and realize the graveness of this issue.

 

It is weird that people would only want to be unity when something happened, like SARS in
Hong Kong. As a human, it’s really sad to hear about the data and the truth when I was watching “An Inconvenient truth.”  It is because global warming keeps speeding up within these 50 years, which means I will experience before I died. Seems like people did realize it, but there are only several people care about it. Global warming is existing, it is dangerous if we do not awake the awareness of this issue in people’s mind.

Diesel- Brand as media to promote global warming

There is a period I didn’t write my blog as we concentrated on completing a survey, researching and discovery. After our discussion and finished watching “An inconvenient truth”, we discover that the meaning of “media” that we chose should not be only focus on movie. Advertising, brand, publication, TV, Internet, radio, etc, these are also counted as “media. As a brand, they usually convey what they want to say to public by using their products, promotion, leaflets, advertisement. During our research, we realise Diesel is bringing a global environmental message from its campaign. For this year, what its campaign is global warming that we got a leaflet of Diesel which is about global warming few weeks ago.

Adv from Diesel about global warming:

Here is the leaflet,

Moreover, Diesel had joined the Stop global warming.org (http://www.stopglobalwarming.org/default.asp) as well. So we’ve sent an E-mail to Diesel by asking some questions and waiting its reply hopefully. The questions are about:

1)      When does Diesel start to concern about global warming? Is this the first year?

2)      Why would Diesel use global warming as a campaign to communicate with its customers?

3)      What have Diesel done in promoting global warming to its audience?

4)      As we know, since last year people only start to concern on the global warming  

issue. The crisis that the earth is encountering will lead the earth to lack of natural resources, will this influence you in conveying message to your audience?

5)      What does Diesel concern about a good campaign to send a message of global warming to public? What kind of message(s) does Diesel want to bring out in this global warming campaign?

6)      What kinds of feed back that Diesel expects the public to response?

7)      What kind(s) of method can educate people to aware about the graveness of global warming?

8 )   Do you think the media are the major resource to let people to be aware the issue of global warming? Whose responsibility do you think is to educate people about global warming knowledge? The media? School? Or the government?

In its web-site, http://www.diesel.com/#, it shows its campaign obviously. There are some advises what Diesel people can do with some information graphics, which is funny.   

However, Diesel is not the only one that we want to interview. In these weeks, we’ve sent some E-mails some council, brand, advertising agents, designers and educators by asking some related global warming and green education questions. We are now waiting their replies.

Besides interview, about “An inconvenient truth”, it mentions about people seems like they will only take action whenever something happened, eg. SARs. And they seems like there is something blocking people not to know the facts even they realise in their mind. Why do they block the way to do? What are they hiding?

So what do you think?

Please give me some response.

Reflection of “cradle to cradle”

After reading those pages of “cradle to cradle” that Tania gave us, McDonough & Braungart (2002) mentions about materials what we choose to produce a product may be actually affecting about our lives, health, environmental and future. Those merchants, who would like to reduce the cost of producing a product, find ways to choose some low quality materials. However, some of them are actually banned in its countries so producers sent to those developing countries or to those countries where have not banned for productions instead of making in its own places. The reason why it is related to our lives, health, environmental and future because those chemical of materials “may be harmful to you and your loved one”. That why they mention that ” An electric hand mixer emitted chemical gases that got trapped in the oily butter molecules of the cake batter and ended up in the cake. So be careful- you might unintentionally be eating your appliances.”

The tend for News to report the problematic appearance of product, such as chemical from appliances released and lead to cancer, has been increasing This shows that the products in the world nowadays actually are mainly designed by designers. Indeed, designers treat as leaders who are standing the first to protect the whole world. They have responsibilities to consider the materials that they choose for the parts of products, the ways they choose is actually the way of reducing dangers.

Questions!!

After two weeks discussion, our topic has decided as ‘ Media’, we are now going to brainstorm the realtionship bewteen Media and global warming

 These are the question that we discovered.

-Why they did not think about it?

-Since when?

-How serious it is not to think about it?

-What kind of impact should they worry?

-What should they do?

-How did this rise up?

1.Sciencetific theory

2.By the media

-What causes this?

1.Pollution

2.manufactory technology

3.enviroment damage

-Who cause this?

1.People

-When should we start?

1.Now, last year

-Who are the target audience?

1.Student

2.Young gereratior

3.Entepriser