Week Seven

Whakatinana Moment

Based on my keywords I was in the aqua group

We got into groups to discuss our current stage of our project cross the Design school. We had to give a quick explanation of our topic to the rest of the group, and then every 15 minutes we paired up to have a more in depth discussion about our projects.

I found it quite useful to get some feedback and some insight into some other projects

Shaylah (fashion)
Being able to express yourself through fashion. look good feel good

Cay (VCD)
looking into refugees coming into New Zealand

Claudia ( VCD)
Fake tanning harms

Lisa (photography)
expressing her condition through photography




Feedback:


Cay:
-Look at wreck the journal, more aimed at teenagers but applies the idea of getting out and    about
- Knows when she lived in the Philippines that she would take the bus by herself when she was quite young but her cousins here in NZ aren't allowed to by themselves as their parents think its unsafe for kids to be taking the bus by themselves.


Maddi:
- Games and playing to encourage children to spend time outdoors.
 - Did the children's garden for last years Creative Enterprise paper , gave me some insight into ways to get kids to be more active and looked at the project that she did with her group.



Neshia: - Bringing risk back into children's lives, children are bit bubble wrapped these days. why is that ?

Looking into precedents

Persil Wild Explorers is packed with more than 100 fun outdoor activities for children, such as family camping ideas and games to play outside. This app is a must-have for parents who are searching for fun things to do with kids and outdoor activity ideas that will get children to explore nature. It will help you and your little explorers make the most of the great outdoors with a range of nature activities that will encourage physical activity for kids.











Created in partnership with The Wild Network; with Persil Wild Explorers you’ll always have things to do with kids. You can:
-Search more than 100 ideas for outdoor activities for kids
- Discover activities for children of all ages
- Find games to play outside ranging from 10 minutes to hours of fun
- Get your children to develop new skills with the learning activities available
- Explore family-friendly activities, such as family camping ideas and nature activities
- Keep track of your Wild Time adventures and the outdoor activity ideas your little explorers have enjoyed
- Uncover autumn activities and play ideas for any weather conditions
- Encourage physical activity for kids with games to play outside

An advert by Persil, supporting their 'dirt is good' campaign promoting how nature and the outdoors support imagination. Done in a child's perspective and tone with messy hand writing and how children often see things differently, rather than just seeing it as a shell. For example 'mermaids mobile phone' or unicorns horn.

The Wild Network is a online platform/ organisation that strongly promotes outdoor play in young children. 

They support children, parents, schools and communities to encourage kids to play wild and connect more with nature.

Their Barriers 
Fear
-Stranger Danger 
-Risk- adverse culture
-Danger streets 
-Calamity 

Time 
-Parents busy 
-Nature starved curriculum 
-Lack of free-range play 

Space
-Vanishing green space
-Play INC
-Kidvertising 

Technology 
-Rise in screen time 

Evidence to support wild time:

-Improving their ability to judge and understand risk 

-Physical health through exercise 

-Maintaining mental health and positive well-being through exposure to the natural world 

-Imagination and creativity through outdoor learning 

-Improving communication skills and ability to build relationships 

Wreck this Journal by Keri Smith 

Wreck This Journal, a subversive illustrated book that challenges readers to muster up their best mistake- and mess-making abilities to fill the pages of the book--or destroy them. Through a series of creative and quirky prompts, acclaimed guerilla artist Keri Smith encourages journalers to engage in destructive acts--poking holes through pages, adding photos and defacing them, painting pages with coffee, coloring outside the lines, and more--in order to experience the true creative process

Notes from research: 

Research

Why Children need to spend more time outdoors rather than inside

• It builds confidence. The way that kids play in nature has a lot less structure than most types of indoor play. There are infinite ways to interact with outdoor environments, from the backyard to the park to the local hiking trail or lake, and letting your child choose how he treats nature means he has the power to control his own actions.
• It promotes creativity and imagination. This unstructured style of play also allows kids to interact meaningfully with their surroundings. They can think more freely, design their own activities, and approach the world in inventive ways.
• It teaches responsibility. Living things die if mistreated or not taken care of properly, and entrusting a child to take care of the living parts of their environment means they’ll learn what happens when they forget to water a plant, or pull a flower out by its roots.
• It provides different stimulation. Nature may seem less stimulating than your son’s violent video game, but in reality, it activates more senses—you can see, hear, smell, and touch outdoor environments. “As the young spend less and less of their lives in natural surroundings, their senses narrow,” Louv warns, “and this reduces the richness of human experience.”
• It gets kids moving. Most ways of interacting with nature involve more exercise than sitting on the couch. Your kid doesn’t have to be joining the local soccer team or riding a bike through the park—even a walk will get her blood pumping. Not only is exercise good for kids’ bodies, but it seems to make them more focused, which is especially beneficial for kids with ADHD.
• It makes them think. Louv says that nature creates a unique sense of wonder for kids that no other environment can provide. The phenomena that occur naturally in backyards and parks everyday make kids ask questions about the earth and the life that it supports.

https://www.marketingweek.com/2016/03/22/persil-deepens-commitment-to-critical-issue-of-childrens-playtime-with-film-set-in-us-prison/

Persil is hoping to bring about behavioural change by encouraging parents to “get out and get dirty with their children” as it evolves its ‘Dirt is good’ marketing strategy to focus on the worrying statistic that prisoners at a maximum security jail in the US spend more time outside than the average child.




https://www.commonsensemedia.org/videos/how-technology-affects-kids-social-emotional-learning#

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYqPGqczdvo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CMS9xnBRkc

Survey from stuff article

Nature activities for kids

The changing nature of the outdoors makes it an incredibly stimulating and multi-sensory place to play. This is important as babies and young children learn and gain experience through all their senses.

Children who gain knowledge and appreciation of nature are more likely to become adults with a greater sense of environmental awareness.

While getting out and about is exciting, it may be frightening or daunting for some little ones so be aware of new sensations that could startle or alarm them.

A great way to create happy memories of outdoor play and nature is to collect and bring things home, such as twigs, leaves or stones. These can be decorated, put in a keepsake jar or used to make a picture. Keeping items like this in your child’s view for a few days will remind them of their adventures outside and also help with their awareness of shapes, colours and textures.

Urban spaces

Not everyone has easy access to natural spaces outside, with many families in the UK living in built-up urban areas. There might not be woodlands on your doorstep, but there will still be some ways in which you can get outside with your little ones in your neighbourhood. Most local authority websites have a ‘parks and open spaces’ section where you can find free, local outdoor play areas to visit. Think about what you can do in the space you have. In most places, for instance, you can run around with your children or look up to watch the clouds, birds and planes go by.

Regardless of the scenery, being outside is a chance to spend time with your children without interruption and the distractions that are more likely to affect playtime indoors. It can be really therapeutic to switch off your phone for a while and enjoy the simple pleasure of spending time with your child – they’ll feel the benefit of your attention as well as you.

Embracing risk

The fear of traffic, concerns over personal safety and even the weather can affect how parents feel about their children playing outdoors. Finding the right balance between safety and encouraging new experiences can be tricky.

Before starting an activity, ask yourself: what will my child gain from doing this, then to think about the risks, and finally consider how you might avoid or mitigate those risks. If you think most risks are either a) avoidable by taking appropriate care or b) unlikely to happen, then just get on with enjoying the activity.

New list of key words

A list of keywords related to my case study

-Interaction
-Technology
-Children
-Education
-Health
-Explore
-Touch
-Outdoors
-Development
-Enclosed
-Learning
-Isolation

What I've been reading for case study

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.2304/ciec.2004.5.1.10

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0013916508315000

Week Six

Today I had my advisor session with Caroline which helped me think more about the design side of the project, I still feel like this was a lot to think about as I have a bit of catching up to do as I changed my topic.
Some notes from the session:

-Look at my case study and pull apart
-Talk to Mark or Tristram if wanting to look into experience design
-Think about what you enjoy and how you can apply it
-Research about Richard Louve

The campaign, created by MullenLowe, is based around brand research which found that one in two children spend an hour or less outside per day and one in 10 never play outdoors.

As a result, Unilever‘s Persil has created ‘Free the Kids’ – a film set in a maximum security prison in the US. It features various prison inmates talking about the importance of their daily outdoor time and the lack of outdoor time that children experience.

James Hayhurst, global brand director at Persil, told Marketing Week that while the new campaign is a continuation of the brand’s ‘Dirt is Good’ messaging, it takes a more radical approach in order to get its key message out there and drive behavioural change.

Week Five

Today I had my advisor session with Gray we paired up with other students and did a quick exercise

After being a bit stuck on moving forward with my topic and ideas I have decided to change my direction. I felt like my topic/idea was a bit too broad and I was finding it hard to pin point when I was researching.

My new idea/topic was something I had in mind when I was brainstorming at the start of the semester   as its something I've always been quite interested in myself. I want to look into how technology is affecting children social and emotional behaviour as well as changing the way they learn and play.

Week Four

Today we talked about narrative theory and play theory

Week Three

Today we talked about ethnographic research which is definitely something I think I can apply to my project.

After supervision we were asked to bring a thing, we disused everyones objects/things and generated words

-acceptance
-heritage
-society
-linguistics

Week Two

Today we talked about Whakatinana and how it applies to our research project

Later I had a workshop about semiotics with Karl and Lee.
We talked about:  -style
                            -philosophy
                            -cultural formations
                            -how to approach our topics

We then got into groups and discussed what our ideas are at the moment with our project. I thought this was quite helpful as we got feedback and were given ideas, was good to get an insight to what some other people are thinking of doing their research on




My second workshop was communication theory with Patricia and Tristram
We were given a problem and by using design thinking we had to try solve/find an outcome
The question was how can we reduce fuel emissions, our ideas were:

-More electric cars
-Have one day where no cars are allowed to be run
-Walk to work once a week