Team Members: Alexander Polzin, Amanda Sanchez, Jenny Xin, Mihika Bansal, Xiaoran Zhang Overview— In this exercise, we have sought to identify and map the relative types of power held by the various stakeholders that form the landscape of deforestation as a wicked problem, with Pittsburgh as a focal point. …

Team Members: Alexander Polzin, Amanda Sanchez, Jenny Xin, Mihika Bansal, Xiaoran Zhang Defining Deforestation: Deforestation has at times been defined as “the action or process of clearing of forests,” at others more narrowly as “the purposeful clearing of forested land” and even more expansively as “human-driven and natural loss of trees (Merriam-Webster…

This post contains information about Experiments 5 & 6 for the course Communication Design Fundamentals at Carnegie Mellon University. Experiment 5 • Designing Campaign Systems Introduction You will create a series of three artifacts [digital or physical] that visually introduce six different posts (or spreads) for a topic you will choose. …

Howdy! Glad you’re here ❤︎ If you’re new ‘round these parts of town, start by reviewing this page!!!!!!!!!! Or not, honestly, this is mostly just for me lol Types of Content ⤵️ Each post will use one of the emojis above to organize what kind of post it is 🐛 Personal Feelings & Thoughts 💫 Lit & Artifact Review Update 🪐 Musings about my Topic 🌱 Weekly Update Title Formats ⤵️ [Emoji][Week Posted][Hopefully a Relevant Title]

A recap of Spring 2020 as a Master of Design Graduate Student at CMU [alt title: My emotional state during Spring 2020 and how my emotions were anything but a flat curve.] — Yes. I know. Summer is literally almost over (which is fucking rude of summer!!!). Feels weird to be recapping second semester so far after the fact. But I think of this more of as a post-mortem. I need to do it, so I have some closure.

Howdy folx! Spring semester is over and I think I’ve somewhat recovered. Now it’s time to pick back up where I left off. Kind of. At the end of the spring semester, I turned in a thesis proposal that has definitely changed and evolved over the past few weeks. Oops…

A Collaborative Playbook for Civically Engaged Students — The Team— For this project, I chose to work alone due to funky semester schedules. I have a background in graphic design and am an avid social justice advocate. This project has slowly evolved into a passion project. Identifying the Opportunity Area— Students in student organizations have high aspirations at the beginning of the school year…

Causal-Layered Analysis of a wicked problem referred to as ‘homelessness’ — Transition Design Seminar, Carnegie Mellon University a. Sánchez, Erica Dorn, Xuehui Zhang, and Sanika Sahasrabuddhe Introduction This is the third posting in a series about researching, mapping, and envisioning alternative futures related to the wicked problem of homelessness in Pittsburgh, PA. In our first post, we researched and mapped the wicked…

WE MADE IT!! — Through all of the ups and downs of having to transition a highly collaborative project offline to online, we were able to work through our fabulous presentation. Presentation Recap We had a few goals when outlining our presentation. We wanted to be really clear about subject area we were in and how…