- On this page, there are links to various goals and outcomes that are aligned with this course. After you watch the DVD, review the lists and pull out 3-5 attributes that you think the movie touched on. Explain how you think the movie represented that attribute. (If you open the skills and attitudes in a separate window, you can easily copy and paste the phrases you select)
- Choose one of the attributes you listed and give an example of how you have represented that attribute in your academic or personal life.
- Collaborate effectively with others in a manner appropriate to the discipline.
- Edgar Pieterse mentions that from history, for change to happen, we need a small group of innovators that can demonstrate how to do things differently. Once this gets mainstreamed, change happens really quickly. In the video, people came together and collaborated to change the way they do things such as the process for family housing.
- The Creative Process — Explores Design activity in relation to the concept of sustainability — Demonstrate attitudes in line with the democratic aspirations of equality, liberty, and justice, and democratic practices of social responsibility and inclusion of diverse perspectives in civic processes and community life.
- “Participatory Design” — efficient to make the half that a family would never be able to achieve on their own, then allow families to do the other half on their own, with their own timing, and according to their own needs. To have a participatory design, it means to have families sitting at the table to help decide what they were going to deliver from day one and what can be left so that families themselves can take care of that.
- They asked families to choose between a water heater or a bathtub. Wealthy people tended to choose a water heater. Low-income people chose a bathtub 100% of the time. They mention that these decisions are based on prior experiences of what they faced. For low-income people, a shower meant a can with water in the courtyard which is why they chose a bathtub because it would give them privacy. Also, when they would move in, they wouldn’t have money to pay for the gas bill to heat the water which is why they chose a bathtub.
- “Participatory Design” — efficient to make the half that a family would never be able to achieve on their own, then allow families to do the other half on their own, with their own timing, and according to their own needs. To have a participatory design, it means to have families sitting at the table to help decide what they were going to deliver from day one and what can be left so that families themselves can take care of that.
- Explores Design activity in relation to the concept of sustainability
- Bicycles being used to travel to work
- In this developing city, there is pavement for pedestrians and bicyclists, however, there is mud for cars. This shows that pedestrians and bicyclists are more prioritized than cars
- Bicycles being used to travel to work
- “Cars can be paid for later on”
- In a young city like in the video, it’s not smart to build a large and expensive infrastructure like a subway line early on because the “center” of the city might be somewhere else in a matter of years (where the subway line doesn’t go).
The attribute I choose is ‘Collaborate effectively with others in a manner appropriate to the discipline’. In high school and college, I have received a lot of group projects. In order to get it done and receive a good grade, working together with my partners is very important. Several things I’ve done to collaborate effectively with others are making everyone’s ‘workload’ equal, communicate if there’s any problems/concerns, work towards everyone’s strengths, and creating deadlines together.
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