poster revisions

After conversing with the graphics group we decided on a more concentrated direction between the visual aesthetics of the exhibit as a whole as well as established interactive elements for each content area.

Beginning poster designs and testing process

User Testing Process:

For this testing experience, we will print out all flat art on tabloids or letters and organize them into their categories. The set up of the exhibit will be explained to each user. Diagrams and descriptions of each display will be included. This will allow the user to conceptualize the experience and draw helpful conclusions on pros and cons of the concept.

User Testing Questionnaire

1)   identify five things that you learned about poverty from this exhibit?

2)   Were there any display concepts you found especially appealing or successful and why?

3)   Were there any display concepts you found hard to understand? And Why?

4)   Referring to the map of the space, where do you think you would be drawn to first?

Rapid Prototyping

This is documentation of the health content groups prototyped idea for creating an interactive space using hanging posters. The concept behind the idea was to create room like areas for each content section. These individual spaces would communicate the hardships of someone in living in poverty and what they would experience throughout every day life in everyday places and situations. This miniature mock up shows ideas for a content relating to a home, a grocery store, and a doctors office. 

Mood Board Process

This was one of the three directions we presented to the class as options for the look and feel of the exhibit. This one in particular concentrated on applying to the audience's pathos by curating images that would especially resonate with the users and their experience.

This is a personal contribution of a possible direction discussed within the graphic design group after we each contributed our own ideas during an in class speed mood board round.

thumbnail brainstorm

These thumbnails represent a brainstorm of ideas to represent content in the space. I also included some visual ways to represent poverty hardships and how to affect the audience the most through image and interactive elements.

poverty notes

Overall messages about poverty

In his 2001 address to the World Health Assembly, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said:“ The biggest enemy of health in the developing world is poverty”.

The economic and political structures which sustain poverty and discrimination need to be transformed in order for poverty and poor health to be tackled.

Poverty in kansas

There are some areas in the county where the number of people living in poverty is higher than 20%, sometimes as high as 30%.

Facts connecting health and poverty

Poverty creates illiteracy, leaving people poorly informed about health risks and forced into dangerous jobs that harm their health.

it can be concluded that there is a bidirectional relationship between health and income. Not only a decrease in wage raise the probability of a perceiving decline in health, but also becoming sick goes with a reduction of wealth, caused by contraction of working wage.

In medical and sociological literature, the existing association between state of health and poverty is now broadly recognized.

_1 in 3 people live in poor health due to living in poverty.

_diabetes is twice as common if you live in poverty.

_1 in 3 people living in poverty are smokers.

_the very poor and vulnerable people may have to make harsh choices – sometimes knowingly putting their health at risk

_the cost of doctors’ fees, a course of drugs and transport to reach a health center can be devastating, both for an individual and their relatives who need to care for them or help them reach and pay for treatment. in the worst cases, the burden of illness may mean that families sell their property, take children out of school to earn a living or even start begging.

_poverty prevents Americans from buying healthy food. many of the poor have to buy salty snacks and the kinds of processed foods that cause hypertension, obesity, and diabetes in lieu of fresh produce.

_economic inequality takes a massive toll on mental health — even more so than warfare, by some accounts. mental stress is a leading reason that low-income people are more likely to have high blood pressure, cholesterol, and become obese or diabetic (since long-term stress creates hormones that compromise the immune system and promote weight gain).

_as a young adult, the impoverished are more likely to join the military in the hope of getting out of poverty — despite the risk of physical or mental disability, or death.

_on average the poor live shorter lives

::the good news::

_United Way can help impoverished families get their kids the school supplies they need. they recently partnered with Ballard Community Services, Salvation Army and ECKAN to get kids the school supplies they needed.

_United Way’s community partners were able to provide emergency housing and food to about 8,000 people every month.

_United Way helped adults in economic crisis gain the skills they needed to land jobs. out of the 470 people that they coached by a variety of organizations, 374 landed or maintained a job (78%).

_In 2014-15, over 600 students attended a dropout prevention experience, called Reality U, which was lead by 216 volunteers recruited by United Way and Communities in Schools.