
December 2, 2013 — studio-trobec
Design Activism at North Sydney Girls High School
North Sydney Girls High School asked Vesna Trobec to be a guest speaker and jury on student projects exploring ‘Design as an Agent of Change’ due to Vesna’s history of using design for social activism.
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Design is everywhere.
Therefore, there is scope for invention everywhere as well.
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The academically gifted Year 10 students were given exemption from normal classes to initiate social activist projects they felt passionate about.
Topics included:
- Advertising targeting children
- Global digital divide
- Gender inequality in the workplace
- Decline in face-to-face communication in the internet age
- Ethical and social consequences of 3D printing
- Internet addiction in children
- Online crime
- Online privacy threats
- Biodiversity loss
- The harmful effects of planned obsolescence and consumerist waste
- Deforestation
- Media representation of the mentally ill
- Prisons and recidivism
- Food wastage
- Teenage mental health
- Media stereotypes
- Sexualisation of women in the media
- Pro-euthanasia campaign
- Loss of cultural diversity
- Youth homelessness among those released from detention
- Truth in advertising
- Prevention of juvenile crime
- Improved nutritional awareness
- Gender stereotyping of children’s products