Research :: Dissertation

Feminism and Social Change: Suggested Readings

Websites , forums , previous studies and info for Research ... 

http://www.awid.org/

http://www.forum.awid.org/

http://www.politicalforum.com/womens-rights/

http://userpages.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/socialchange.html

http://www.unb.ca/par-l/win/feminmethod.htm

http://www.ic.arizona.edu/ic/mcbride/ws200/theproblemoffeminisminfemaleart.html

http://www.jennygilmore.com.au/files/2112/4061/8028/PHD.pdf

http://happyfeminist.typepad.com/happyfeminist/2006/08/is_feminism_a_s.html

http://www.socresonline.org.uk/1/4/brayfield.html

http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/444.html

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=14315

http://www.colorado.edu/AmStudies/lewis/2010/feminism.htm

Design for social change :: Dissertation seminar 1

Research


Your topic must have about 4 different sections in it , so look at the topic from different angles throughout the piece of writing.
investigate into 4 different angles e.g Topic :: Women Power - Feminist, Semiotic , Sexism , Rights , politic views, history etc

Methodology  - Feminist / Semiotic . Psychoanalytical / marxist / ecology / postcolonial / narratology etc

Start off with secondary sources - Find as many of the following as you can - this will suggest your primary research (trips to library , scouring internet)
Secondary Sources - Books / Topic / Approach / Primary Research

Primary research gives you more marks - Must do your primary research - anything that you analyse (logos , clothing etc)
Primary Research - Interviews / art objects - your own person investigations of primary research / Designers / empirical study - Evidence gained through observation , Archives - Foundations



 Design for social change


Design that wants to change something or be political - Design Activism in political changes.
A graphic designer creating a brand for a product , a consumer commodity , that act of branding is political as it is exploiting a political change an 'act of design' e.g Swvorski diamonds - the trade and what went into getting diamonds - ALL DESIGN/ART IS A POLITICAL STATEMENT OR CHANGE.
So all design for social change aims to change situations like this

RELATIONS OF PRODUCTION
( all froms of art reflect) :: superstructure / Base - creates a falseness in view on social change ...

Men have control over the mass media - the superstructure of men dominate the base of the forces of production - women usual are the object of beauty and men are the consumer of this. This creates a situation when the majority of the society think ' thats how its always been , so its right'  - 'DIALECTICAL MATERIALISM'
Again - all design for social change aims to change situations like this.

For this topic , you need to understand IDEOLOGY
- can be a set of personal beliefs 'what i believe in , and what politics believe in' And some religions have their own set of ideology.
Take one statement or idea of an designer or artist and take questions from this e.g
VICTOR PAPANEK -CAME UP WITH AN IDEA OF A SOCIAL TITHE - DO SPEN 1 HOUR IN TEN OF SOMETHING TO CHANGE THE WORLD = 10%







Books & Sources 
L.BALDNIN - 'VISUAL COMMUNICATION : FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE'
N . KLEIN - 'NO LOGO' 
VICTOR PAPANEK - 'DESIGN FOR THE REAL WORLD' 

Subjects & Themes :: Dissertation :: CTS

Over the past couple of days i have been thinking about what interests me so that i can find some kind of base point for my Dissertation Research.

I also need some idea of what i want to look at so that i can select the appropriate theme sign up sessions which will tie in to my chosen subject. 

Some potential areas of re-search 

- Gender equality 

- Different Cultural views on female rights
- Hierarchy of men over women 

- Sexism 

- Power Strategy 

- Iconic Figures
- History e.g women not being allowed to be creative or act and how thats changed

The subject which is standing out to me the most at this time is Power strategy and iconic figures. 

So i have been thinking more deeply into these subject and how i can find something which combines the two.

I very passionate about women power and how this world is dominated by men. So i think at the moment   my re-search will be based around Women Power. 

This has lead me to select the following seminars wich will hopefully be appropriate for this subject. 

- Design and Social Change

- Globalisation 

- Design for Accessibility 

Thinking about possible Dissertation Titles within these themes. 

Design and Social Change

- 60'S / 70/S 

- Feminist views

- Superstructure / Base

Globalisation 

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Design for Accessibility

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FEEDBACK -
Focus on one era.
one chapter be about the history - but include both negative and positive views on feminism. 60'S / 70'S - BIG MOVEMENT EMERGED IN FEMALES VIEWS AND RIGHTS

Dissertation Briefing :: Lecture One

Choose something that you really want to discuss , what your interested in , this will carry you through the whole process.
Ideally it will feed into my studio practise / finals etc or Carrier path.

Look at a breadth of sources , visited exhibitions , books , magazines , websites , films , communicating withe people i.e letters , e-mails etc.
Research over the summer in any way you want , sources can be anything , digitally or physically.
It is marked on academic coverstaions , not just your opinion.

To enter the Dissertation Handbook.....

Do the majority of your Research in advance as this will help in the organisation and ensure you are prepared for actually starting to write, it will take so much longer to research as you go along.

Do a little bit a day.

Fill in Proposal form. Do a draft first

Dissertation Briefing :: Dissertation