In this class you have practiced working on many of the kinds of media (photo, audio, digital story, research, web design, video) common for New Media Designers. You have also looked at key design issues to avoid doing harm and instead promote technology that will serve people and planetary health.
Learning about key current issues and honing your skills should reinforce your developing sense as a media designer.
To reflect on what you learned, we’ll take a moment to let you write about the kind of future you would love to live in. In this future assume everyone has UBI–Universal Basic Income–a small stipend that provides very simple housing, basic food and low cost education and health care. Your basic needs are met, but only at a basic level. Also in this world money and power are considered uncool–basically a distraction from living a meaningful life.
In such a world, everyone works and this contributes to the common health/wealth, but that work is chosen by you and is typically where you get to explore what really matters to you and find what you really love to do and practice it. Work consists of what you do for yourself, and also for the benefit of others.
Describe this world that fulfills your dreams.
- Where would you live? And with whom? Briefly describe this world in the location where you choose to live, and with the people you’d live with.
- What kind of work would you do for yourself? For your community?
- Describe a day in your life as a twenty year old in which you can really live & work according to your dreams without any fear of meeting your basic survival needs.
- List the key values that are supported in your world. eg Clean Air & Water, Healthy Food, Fun activities, Sports, Music, etc
You might refer back to this from time to time to see how your goals and aspirations grow and change with time.