Victoria University Wellington
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My work at VUW was centered around communicating ideas: ideas based on a brief or my own ideas, beliefs and stories. This last, more introspective approach felt new to me. It was refreshing to take a step back from the user, market or society as the core of my design approach and find ideas and concepts that I find important. To be unable to fall back on the vision my squad, my peers or my team has for my project, and being solely guided by my own views and interpretations proved challenging and invigorating.
Interculturality was a big topic in all courses, and society at large in New Zealand. In Visual Narratives we’ve looked at different cultures’ typical narrative structures, in graphic design we are taught about the balance between cultural admiration and appropriation, in design manifestos we learnt about considerations that can be made about inclusivity and the effects of that on overall usability and user satisfaction. The bicultural identity and colonial past in New Zealand contrasted and built upon what I had learnt about culture in courses like 'socio-cultural sensitivity' and made me more aware of how I treat culture in my own work.
Interculturality was a big topic in all courses, and society at large in New Zealand. In Visual Narratives we’ve looked at different cultures’ typical narrative structures, in graphic design we are taught about the balance between cultural admiration and appropriation, in design manifestos we learnt about considerations that can be made about inclusivity and the effects of that on overall usability and user satisfaction. The bicultural identity and colonial past in New Zealand contrasted and built upon what I had learnt about culture in courses like 'socio-cultural sensitivity' and made me more aware of how I treat culture in my own work.