Homelessness

Organizations:

• www.helpthehomelessdc.org
• www.help-the-homeless.org.uk
• www.crisis.org.uk - helping single homeless people improve their future
• www.shelter.org.uk
• www.homelessuk.org
• www.centrepoint.org.uk - helping homeless young people
• www.emmaus.org.uk - giving homeless people a bed and a reason to get out of it
• www.salvationarmy.org.uk
• www.mungos.org - London's largest charity for homeless people
• www.homeworldwide.org.uk - offers emergency housing and people to talk to
• www.housingjustice.org.uk - national voice of christian action on housing and homelessness
• www.streetlytes.org - dedicated to relieving poverty and making a difference to homeless and vunerable people
• www.thamesreach.org.uk - helps homeless and vulnerable people to live in decent homes and have decent families and successful lives
• www.passage.org.uk - runs London's largest voluntary sector day centre for homeless people
• www.homelesslondon.org - website for finding information about services for the homeless in London
• www.housingjustice.org.uk / www.homelesslondon.org - run projects to keep the homeless off the streets in winter
• www.do-it.org.uk - gives volunteering options on helping the homeless

Design For Audiences - notes from brief

1. Audience as those people who you need to communicate with (need to understand them to be effective).

2. Audience as a demographic. A way of thinking about who you want to engage (audience focused)

How we could me the world better:

• Less litter
• free public transport
• less use of non-renewable energy
• less crime
• no smoking
• more for oap's
• fair trade
• no debt for the 3rd world
• less packaging

What are the problems and who are effected?

Problems that motivate you:

• depression
• poverty
• social ignorance
• poor education

PROBLEM ---- poverty

ACTION ---- fundraising, petition, write letters, skills exchange etc

AUDIENCE ---- general public, people who buy from charity shops

PERSUADE ---- persuade your point to them

Research:

Secondary: (internet) problem, organization(s), three actions

Experimental: try out actions yourself (choose one)

Primary: get others to do the action

Hand with the planned location of a RFID (radio-frequeny identification) chip, and after the procedure. In 2004 Conrad Chase offered the VIP customers of his nightclubs in Barcelona and Rotterdam the option to have this inserted and in return recieve free drinks.
In 2004 18 employees recieved the implant to gain access to a secure data room.

The government has said no such chip will be used within the public, yet there is always a chance, as these chips could offer instant information on each person and even tracking.

Never say never?

Clarify, what is going to drive change in the future?

• money - economics
• running out of resources
• market pull
• environmental issues
• new technologies
• trends (music, fashion etc)
• new materials
• legal factors
• advertising
• war/terrorism
• demand
• politics

Consider various factors above that would/could effect how surrveilance would change in the future.

Films:

• Metropolis, 1927
• Farenheit, 1966
• The day after tomorrow, 2004
• Children of mel, 2005

..hang on!
CADBURY'S smash???

Communication Technology 1

..oh what nightmares the future may hold!!!!

Children of men

As i chose to look at surveillance for this next project (website project) as a start i watched the film 'children of men' (to be truthful i kind of also watched it because its a great film).

It didn't really have much reference to surveillance but gave a good impression of what the future may hold. It particularly shows the STEEPLE analysis quite clearly (social, technical, environmental, economic, political, legal, ethical), mainly through the seperation of ethics which builds the basis of the film. I could talk about the film extensively, but at the end of the day i'm not doing a film review!

If you haven't watched it you have to, especially within this project!!!