Relation to visual communication and graphic design

Doing a project focused on homelessness, social design is one of the things that first comes to my mind, my subject being so closely related to people and a human aspect of things.

Effectively, social design is one of the "techniques"/"concepts" that I might explore the most during the project, and that I've already explored in Foundation, with the "Neighbours" project for example. During that project, I learnt how important it is to talk to and get to know the person you're designing for, understand in which ways design, and more precisely graphic designs can "fit" into their lives, be something helpful for them that they can benefit from. It is then really important to get a true understanding of that person, and processes as interviewing (something we also learnt during the "Neighbours project") are vital for this type of subjects.

Another project I think that could be helpful to look for this project is the "Campaign" project we did, to deal with a subject as this one, where my interest is also to reach people and society in general, to inform about an issue, get to show the reality of homelessness, the skills learnt during the "Campaign"project could be really useful, as we learnt how to reach people, how to get people's attention, and how to inform on an issue as climate change, all of this being applicable to my project.

Finally, it could also be interesting to explore language and how to develop or promote communication between individuals. This is something that we've obviously broadly explored in visual communication pathways, but projects like "Visual litteracy, where we learnt how to communicate other than with words, or our project "Magpies and eagles" where we even created a different language using sound and visual representations like dots could be interesting to look at in terms of how to communicate in different ways and how to promote communication between individuals.