Research Event

Week 3 - Class Collaboration Agreement

Definition of Collaboration – working together

Goals and priorities – We expect to strive for an A while learning to work as a team. We want to have fun as a group with one of our last university projects.

Schedule:

Process – We plan to work collectively while allocating tasks when necessary. Setting weekly goals at team meetings, tracking progress through social media contact and our blog.

Time – We expect to contribute our time equally, each 7 hours independently and meet at least once each week.

Communication – We will communicate through facebook, we have a group page and chat along with our blog updates. Decisions will be made at group meetings, extra meetings will be made when necessary. If disagreements arise, we would vote, majority wins.

Critique – We will critique honestly either peer to peer or as a whole and we feel no one will be offended in this process.

Money and Resources – If needed it will be divided equally, although we don't believe we will need any, but if we do we think we would be able to source funding.

Concept Ideation - paint series

Research: VICE Writers Talk Politics with Their Parents

Click here to see the VICE media video sponsored by the NZ electoral commission that connects young people with their parents to talk about politics and voting. 

Week 3 - Class ideation

Campaign to celebrate what it means to be 'old'

Connecting retiring citizens with younger people who want their knowledge, experince and mentorship.

Creating a 'red card' situation with parents and their children. Both get to choose an activity of their choice that they do together.

Research

Video experimenting with the aging population engaging in the "youthful" act of recreational drugs.

Week 2 - Class presentation

A rough expanation of our idea

Today we discussed our brainstorm of ideas and settled as a team on the idea of the 'age gap'. Looking specifically at the trends of the aging population, as the baby boomers look towards retirement. When this group of people find retirement we've identified, from our own observations, that there is still a desire to re-engage with society as they can get quite bored. Particularly because most of these people are still very mentally and physically capable people who can contribute to society. We've also looked at the way in which western society treats their elderly, compared to the way other cultures put these wise more mature people the pedestal they deserve to be on. What are the underlying things causing this and how can we change the perception. We think there's opportunities in mentoring, tutoring and social engagement for new mutually beneficial relationships to be sparked between these newly retired people and younger people like us.

The slide we presented is below

Feedback on our idea

We had positive feedback on the presentation of our idea. Anna specifically mentioned an example whereby Preschools were located near retirement homes in order to create similar positive effects. Infomation on that initiative is here and also here. We've also started to look into Age Concern, which is New Zealand's official programme for caring for the elderly.

Week 1 - Class Brainstorm and Ideation

Initial brainstorm ideas

- The news, creating an informed population
- Doctor queue avoidance
- Refugees
- Location aware map on what to do depending on time available
- Drawing font thing
- Timetable app notifications
- App to socialise that has times and shared points of interest
- Wider friend graph exploration when travelling
- Lid/cap for beer bottle that turns it into a drink bottle
- Environmental
- STIs
- Vaping
- Mindfulness (not religious)
- Pingers
- Gender discomfort in uni-sex stores
- Play for older people
- Old people being over qualified (western vs eastern)