Class 5 Thursday 30 July

Today in class we were required to bring in a draft of our 8 spreads we went through them all and discussed with Tim as a class how we were going to show our facts with images that backed the facts up rather than just showed exactly what the facts were saying. We decided to start writing a list of everything we could think of when it came to drinking the tangibles and intangibles. This led to a variety of metaphoric ideas. Our task by tomorrows class is to draw up a couple of the spreads with some possible images relating to the words/themes we came up with today. So Bryony is going to do the Background and Audience with two themes: Rollercoaster/getting ready and Zoo theme and I will be doing the Issue and Audience Motivation.

First Exchange

During this exchange we met up with our assigned groups mine being group 30.
We have 3 VCD students in our group including myself, and then one Industrial, one Fashion and one Textile Student. This wide variety of majors allowed us to have a wider understanding of wellbeing. Each major has taken the brief from a different angle, and creating/designing things that fit with their interests. For example; the industrial students are looking at wellbeing through food. Ethan's group are focusing on the comparison of American culture with Japanese culture. A specific example he showed us was trying to eat McDonalds with chop sticks, and sushi with a Knife and Fork. This is a completely different way of looking at wellbeing yet seems very interesting.
When we next meet we have organised to bring lunch with us and have a lunch meeting as it was a very long session from 9-1 to have not bought any food with us!

Class 4 Friday 24 July

Today was very productive for Bryony and I. We split off and met with another pair and presented our ideas with each other to help narrow down our topic. After researching and collating our 4 pages each we both decided that drug and alcohol is the most common addiction in youth 15-20. Once we presented our ideas to another pair we got some more feedback and they suggested we just narrow it down to alcohol. We felt this would work well as the drinking culture in NZ is more often than not drinking to get drunk rather than appreciating a glass of wine much like french culture.
Phoebe has suggested to us that we should be focusing on what causes the addiction and abuse of alcohol i.e. social anxiety, depression etc.
- We have arranged to meet on Tuesday to bring our work in and compare and add or take out areas as necessary.

Class 3 Thursday 23 July

Today we showed each other the research we had done since last week. Unfortunately my lack of understanding and interpreting the email sent out to us I was looking more into a solution for when we aren't feeling well rather than issues that we need to solve regarding well being.
Through listening to other members of the class and the issues they have chosen I decided that addiction may be something I am interested in researching. We then paired up and worked out with our partner exactly what our issue was going to be.
-Addiction in youth 15-20.
Before next class we are to have 8 pages with each of the 8 topics for our visual brief on them and possibly some facts backing them up, Bryony and I split it up into 4 each.

Class 2 Friday 17 August

I wasn't present at this class as I had a family issue, but caught up on the Lifehack workshop and did a wellbeing brainstorm myself. I was informed we discussed what wellbeing was to us in more depth. Personally being happy with myself and feeling healthy and fit is probably what makes me feel well. I did used to have very negative thoughts about my body image but I have started to over come that and accept what I look like and appreciate myself for who I am.
-Things to think about for next class are some ideas of well being that I would be interested in and solutions to wellbeing.

Class 1 Thursday 16 July

After our class introduction in the Pit we separated into our streams and thought about times we had felt well, times we didn't feel so well and then how we could improve our mood when we weren't so well. This helped us as a class to determine what wellbeing means to different people. Sometimes the smaller things are things that make us the most happy or content.
Personally I just feel well hanging out with my close friends, being by myself can be good sometimes but I definitely prefer company.