Research
September 23, 2009
Initial Questions to explore:
- Why is the Philippines poor?
- Has the Philippines always been poor? When (decade) did it begin?
- Factors that may contribute to why Philippines’ economy is not improving
- How do we define “wealth”? Who is the “poor”?
- How many OFWs/caregivers worldwide? Where? How much income/remittance? Pros and cons?
- Socio-economic traps: marginalization in the Philippines? Why are the rich becoming richer and poor, poorer?
- How corrupt is the Philippines?
- Globalization and its effects to Philippines’ poverty
Stats
September 22, 2009
Some additional research:
http://www.poea.gov.ph/stats/2008_stats.pdf
http://www.adb.org/Documents/ERD/Working_Papers/Wp112.pdf
http://www3.pids.gov.ph/ris/dps/pidsdps0040.pdf
http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2002/01/07/000094946_01121904064580/Rendered/PDF/multi0page.pdf
http://www.idrc.ca/uploads/user-S/10951172131mrp50.pdf
http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/16553/1/MPRA_paper_16553.pdf
Confusing Information with Form
September 22, 2009
By Maya.
Research Links
September 22, 2009
Poverty in the Philippines: Income, Assets, and Access
Asian Development Bank. January 2005.
http://www.adb.org/documents/books/Poverty-in-the-Philippines/default.asp
Celso and Cora
Kildea, Gary. VHS, 109 min. 1983.
http://icarusfilms.com/cat97/a-e/celso_an.html
Causes of Poverty
Shah, Anup. 22 Mar 2009.
http://www.globalissues.org/issue/2/causes-of-poverty
When 1+1=3
September 22, 2009
So, perhaps it is about time that I put blogging’s addictive quality to good use. This former Timebased haven is now also a home to my other areas of studies this year: Prof. Aspects, Info 2, Contemporary Problems in Design, and Design Workshop. My reasons include the following: (1) that I may have my notes digitally accessible (anywhere, anytime with a laptop), (2) that I may keep track of my progress, and (3) that I may force myself to have some sort of weekly, hopefully daily, development—nicely articulated in blog format.
Info 2
“Not enough info is no good, Too much info is too bad.” -Albert Ng
He showed us this diagram (see img below) that attempts to illustrate what info design is (or the essential stages anyway): data → info → knowledge → wisdom. Then the rest of the class was pretty much a review of Info 1 (color values, typography, designing for an audience, etc.)
Course Outline
Term Project
Notes (Class 1 and 2)
Term Project: Info Design for Advocacy
Info 2 for this year is only comprised of one big project: a folded printed piece of info des, that serves “to inform” and “engage a selected audience” on a relevant social issue. Options include: conflicts in Africa, Causes of Poverty, Arms Trade as a major cause of suffering, genetically engineered food, mainstream and ethnic community media.
I picked Causes of Poverty as my topic, and decided to narrow it down further to Causes of Poverty in the Philippines. (I felt the need to focus on something that hits closer to home.)
Topic: Causes of Poverty in the Philippines
Target Audience: Filipino communities around the world
Purpose: To inform, to engage, to educate, to instigate a change (e.g. what can people do to help minimize the problem?)
POV: Will be from North American perspective
