Spring Week 1

This week I have been considering what a paper for my project would look like. I took the bullets from my last presentation because that had a topic flow that I liked. So far the outline is very generally this:

Section 1 (shortest section): Design situation, design ethics as it stands
Section 2 (also fairly short): Design ethics education as it stands
Section 3 (second longest): What design ethics needs, address problems in AIGA standards, First Things First, and sections that should be added to supplement
Section 4 (longest): The argument of our ethical obligation - still having a seriously hard time thinking up good examples and counter examples so any input on those is much appreciated (if you remember the acid throwing example I gave, things of that nature will be most helpful, so something that is provocative and not over addressed [ie. murder, naziism], and also ones of a lesser scale that are not focused on sustainability). This section will essentially be the reason why we need to consider, practice, and actively improve on all the things previously mentioned in the paper.

I'm going to write it out at whatever length it happens to be and then try and condense it down. All the literature I have on this topic is too long for me to stay interested in so I want to make sure I get a lot of different edits so it's interesting, maybe slightly humorous writing. The main problem I feel that I will run into is making sure the argument and the concepts are really accessible. I like the example that Kristine's company has of the ways that they're sustainable and different things that you can do. I think providing a lot of examples of situations and ways to handle them is key.

My to-do list for this week is:
Choose 10 professional designers to contact for input on examples and contact them to arrange a meeting
Make one very rough draft of my paper, that will probably read like expanded bullet points
Organize my sources
Organize the relevant quotes from my sources with the sources list
Contact karen/do research to attempt to publish my paper
Return my library books

Sorry this is pretty much just the minimum amount of words :(