VENUES ORGANIZATIONS PROJECTS RESEARCH GRANTS
Problem: Refugees and immigrants in Guilford County are invisible and their skills ignored.
Solution: Get refugee youth to speak out to influential locavores, foodies and sustainability advocates.
Problem: Past projects have built temporary bridges to the Triad’s unique refugee community.
Solution: Show how a permanent commitment solves health inequality.
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Problem: Refugee populations suffer from cultural and language isolation.
Solution: Create a refugee cook and American chef cooking collaborative and invite guests to sample.
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Problem: Revisit an old video game concept.
Solution: Give it an energetic facelift. Make it hilarious.
CONCEPT MAPPING
Problem: Dozens of agencies with overlapping missions can’t cooperate.
Solution: Show them how bad this looks to clients and funders.
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Problem: Grants require documentation and final reports.
Solution: Create a Website to gather and present information during the project period.
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Problem: The region’s health system and poor communities have different goals.
Solution: Use game theory to explain how both sides ruin each side’s chances of success.
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Problem: Light, time and space are ethereal, subjective experiences.
Solution: Oil paint is the supreme medium for recording passing light.
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Problem: Poor families suffer from bad, cheap food.
Solution: Refugee farmers harvest and distribute healthy vegetables for needy community members.
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Problem: Health service enrollment for poor people is detailed and hard to understand.
Solution: Reduce the hundreds of words to a few and add pictures.
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Problem: Many groups are working on similar problems but they are disconnected.
Solution: Give a voice to the community they serve and let it determine priorities.
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Problem: SE Asian refugees and immigrants have high blood pressure; many don’t read.
Solution: Create a visually-based guide to facilitate conversation.
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Problem: Reinvent the old solitaire card game.
Solution: Give it a jungle setting with cute monkeys pursuing a hidden treasure.
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Problem: Poor conditions exist but authorities don’t care.
Solution: Start by showing everyone.
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| Yale studio, 1980. Oil on canvas, 60" x 60" |
VISUALIZATION is our method for editing and discussing problems and demonstrating solutions. Our pictures, images, diagrams, charts, photos, animations, games and videos demonstrate the magnitude, seriousness and location of social, economic and cultural problems. Through the process of visualization we document work and assist others to define their experiences. We use Art to engender awareness and action.
TLDNR: Too long, did not read.
A picture is worth a thousand words.
Seeing is believing.
Art, like games, is a translator of experience... (Artists) know that they are engaged in making live models of situations that have not yet matured in society at large. —McLuhan
TLDNR: Too long, did not read.
A picture is worth a thousand words.
Seeing is believing.
Art, like games, is a translator of experience... (Artists) know that they are engaged in making live models of situations that have not yet matured in society at large. —McLuhan
VIDEO ADVOCACY
Solution: Get refugee youth to speak out to influential locavores, foodies and sustainability advocates.
LINK
HEALTH RESEARCH
Solution: Show how a permanent commitment solves health inequality.
FOOD AS A CONNECTOR TO CULTURES
Solution: Create a refugee cook and American chef cooking collaborative and invite guests to sample.
LINK
CASUAL GAME DEVELOPMENT
Solution: Give it an energetic facelift. Make it hilarious.
Solution: Show them how bad this looks to clients and funders.
LINK
CULTURAL DOCUMENTATION
Solution: Create a Website to gather and present information during the project period.
LINK
GAME THEORY
Solution: Use game theory to explain how both sides ruin each side’s chances of success.
EXHIBITIONS
Solution: Oil paint is the supreme medium for recording passing light.
HARVESTING UNUSED FOOD CROPS
Solution: Refugee farmers harvest and distribute healthy vegetables for needy community members.
LINK
GUIDE FOR PRELITERATE COMMUNITY
Solution: Reduce the hundreds of words to a few and add pictures.
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CREATING AN ORGANIZATIONAL COLLABORATIVE
Solution: Give a voice to the community they serve and let it determine priorities.
CULTURALLY APPROPRIATE TEACHING MATERIALS
Solution: Create a visually-based guide to facilitate conversation.
COMMERCIAL GAME DESIGN
Solution: Give it a jungle setting with cute monkeys pursuing a hidden treasure.
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SEEING IS BELIEVING: POOR STATE OF REFUGEE LIVING CONDITIONS
Solution: Start by showing everyone.
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