Week One Lecture Visualisations.
I took this photo on the weekend up on the ‘Great Alpine Road’ near Falls Creek and Mt Hotham. It struck me as a wide, open field which visually related directly to what Ken was talking about – this ‘knowledge base’ that we can actively contribute to as design students being part of the Designers Accord. 
“The Designers Accord”
” To measure the carbon footprint of Swinburne Design School” 
Week Two Lecture Visualisations. “Innovation and opportunity” 
” Do we have time to care” 
” These days the four biggest disease killers are caused by over-consumption”
Week Three Lecture Visualisations. (Designing for the Hunter Gatherer Brain)
” 5 million years of evolution”
“The slower brain gets eaten”
“Amygdala – ’sees’ things before we do”
Week 5 lecture Visualisations:
“Thinking; it’s rather invisible”
“the 6 thinking hats”
“successfully shifting perception”
Week 6 Lecture Visualisations
“Community = gathering around a focus (an idea, a game, a job, a place or an action)”
The bunjilaka welcome rug by Vicki Couzens is a representation of a gathering or welcoming point.
“communities used to be limited by how much cash you threw at them. Now they are defined by resources”
” 3% of the worlds water is ‘fresh’. Only 1% is available for Human consumption”.
Week 8 Lecture Visualisations
05.05.08
“Colour is used to ‘call out’ to the reader”
“The absence has just as much importance as the contents”
“They get a sense of escapism from the real people and real stories”
* All images/sketches Copywrite Alamy, istock images or Amy Stephens Personal collection
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Beautiful photo Amy!
We have to have ime to care or there will be very little time.
What are the four biggest disease killers? Obesity is one.
Comment by nwragg March 27, 2008 @ 3:01 am4 biggest killers are all related to OVER-CONSUMPTION, so yes, obesity is one, drug abuse is another, diet related heart disease and diabetes is another and the fourth would have to be cancer (in the forms of skin (too much sun), lung (too many cigarettes), liver (too much alcohol) etc. I would have to do some further research to back these claims up but its true – we simply have access to TOO MUCH. This is compared to previous times in which the four biggest killers were non-preventable diseases such as leprecy, aids HIV etc.
Comment by amylstephens85 March 30, 2008 @ 11:34 pm