Week Two: Exploring Type

Week Two: Random Input Task

For the random input task I was given the words dove and net and the saying "a feather in ones cap." To begin the task I explored the meaning of the individual elements a net could suggest being trapped or catching, a dove is commonly known to represent peace or freedom. Through my sketches I explored combining these elements to communicate my chosen issue of homelessness. For the second part of the task I explored the idea that a "feather in ones cap," meant an achievement to be proud of so for my ideas I used irony by showing people begging for a feather, a feather being out of reach or contrasting people with lots of feathers and a person begging for a feather.

Week Two: Association and Representation

In class today we explored the use of images as symbols and how symbols can be used to give meaning.

Image 1: Stairs, cracks, snake,
Image 2: Rook, castle,
Image 3: Crown, royalty, power,
Image 4: Break down of power,
Image 5: Break down of the crown,
Image 6: Break down of communism, or the rise of communism taking over from the crown,
Image 7: The privilege of power held by the crown,
Image 8: The rise of Punk culture,

Week Two: Statistics or Information

64% of homeless people are Maori, Pacific or from other minority ethnicity.
52% of all homes in New Zealand are rented.
1 in 10 homeless people live in a car, on the street or other improvised dwellings.
Homelessness is caused by poverty, domestic violence, physical and sexual abuse, unemployment, lack of affordable housing, addiction etc.

I would like to explore using these statistics to inform my poster concepts and the content on them.

Week One: Research Links

Web Links
Homelessness – the invisible housing problem
http://nzccss.org.nz/work/poverty/the-real-housing-affordability-issues/homelessness-the-invisible-housing-problem/

The young and the homeless: New Zealand’s big human rights fail
https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/18-01-2017/homelessness-new-zealands-big-human-rights-fail/

Homelessness in New Zealand
https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/research-papers/document/00PLEcoRP14021/homelessness-in-new-zealand

Readings

Indigenous Homelessness: New Zealand Context

https://www.google.co.nz/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0ahUKEwjXqvGZ0rnVAhXCsJQKHWUqBZgQFggnMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.communityhousing.org.nz%2FDownloads%2FAssets%2FDownload%2F21047%2F1%2FGroot%2520indigenous%2520homelessness.pdf&usg=AFQjCNHM1o84-CTKgH9XONpjoXlL5BIcqg

The production of homelessness: From individual failure to system inadequacies

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02673038908720665

Images from the Streets: Art for Social Change from the Homelessness Photography

http://www.jstor.org/stable/29768374

Responding to Indigenous Homelessness in Aoteroa New Zealand
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/57176f9f20c6478937696378/t/587ee0c746c3c40b372cae33/1484710088391/ProblemDefinition-GrootMace.pdf

Making the invisible visible: A Photovoice exploration of homeless women’s health and lives in central Auckland
http://www.sciencedirect.com.ezproxy.massey.ac.nz/science/article/pii/S0277953610008233?via%3Dihub

Week One: Word Lists

Week Two: Sayings, Facts, Statistics Homework

Possible sayings, facts or statistics for poster:
64% of all homeless people are Maori, Pacific or from other minority groups
52% of all homes in New Zealand are not inhabited by their owner
52% of all homes in New Zealand are rented
1 in 10 homeless people live on the street, in a car or other improvised dwellings
Stop the cycle of homelessness! (Poverty, domestic violence, physical and sexual abuse, unemployment, lack of affordable housing, addiction, etc)
1 in 100 people in New Zealand are homeless
New Zealand has the worst rates of homelessness in the developed world
More than 40,000 people are homeless in New Zealand
More than half of all homeless people in New Zealand are under 25
A safe home is a fundamental right