Book on Drug Rehabilitation

 

For this assignment, we were asked to make a book about our system, I made a book that is 52 pages on drug rehabilitation in general.

The cover of the book shows illustrations of the most common drugs, it covers drugs such as marijuana, mushroom, ecstasy and etc. I included an illustration of alcohol because any substance that could make an individual addicted is considered as a drug, and that alcohol abuse is a common issue.

The first half of the book educate readers about what drug is and the different types of drugs with its short-term and long-term effects. I chose to talk about alcohol, ecstasy, marijuana and cigarettes as these are most common drugs and are more relevant in our life as these are the drugs that people do the most.

 

The image above shows a codex that explores how the consumption of drugs, such as tobacco, could influence the human body. For example, tobacco could add pressure on portal circulation in the throat, which increase risk of haemorrhage and lung cancer.

Then, I introduced the topic of rehabilitation by explaining the two types of rehab centers (private and non-profit) with images that I took when I visit there for my last assignment. I also introduced the two types of treatment methods, which are impatient and outpatient treatment.

For the last few pages of the book, I looked up archives on the topic of drugs. I found advertisements from the past that educate the public about drugs and persuade the public to not do drugs. Something interesting I found from these archive images is that drug was used as medicines in the past and it reminds me of medical marijuana.

The last two pages for my book is about celebrity and drugs. There are a lot of celebrities who do drugs as a form of getaway from their stress and pressure. I chose to use an image of Demi Lovato because she produced a documentary that explores her journey of being a drug addict to become sober again.

 

The pdf link to my entire book:  book studio-26aypwe

                          Kombucha Leather

Kombucha leather is basically a man-made leather made from the layer formed on leftover teas. To be honest, I’m not really convinced by the idea of Kombucha leather in the fashion industry, I don’t think that this is feasible as from the one of the TED talk videos we watched in class, the designer mentioned that this is not wearable during rainy days. Although Kombucha leather allows designers to dye them to make look more real, I still think it looks less aesthetically pleasing that other existing fabrics that are used to make clothes, it still looks like plastic to me. I also doubt that this material will actually provide warmth to people.

 

                          Circle Line Field Trip

This circle line field trip inspired me for my final project, which I proposed to make plantable coffee cup sleeves, as I noticed how water is severely contaminated by the waste produced by us everyday. I was shook by the amount of waste that the city has to deal with everyday. 

This is a picture that I took during the trip, as you could see on the picture the water within this area is green and look quite toxic, so I believe there wouldn’t be that many living organisms within this area. Also, the garbage are not separated properly. The left side of the picture shows some vehicles but it is placed with material that looks like wood, this could make the recycling process quite difficult as each material should be handled different because some are more recyclable than other and some takes longer to decompose.

                             MY OWN MAP

For our final assignment, we were asked to attend one of the Jane’s walks and design our own map that relates to our system, similar to the Jane’s walk. The system that I’ve been discovering throughout this semester is the drug rehabilitation system, I’ve was first interested in this topic because drug is something ‘new’ to me after I came to NYC. I would see people doing weeds on the street all the time, I feel like drugs is dominating most of our lives and it is affecting crime rate too as most crimes are done when individuals are high, therefore I thought that there must be a system to control the situation.

In my opinion, Drug abuse is a really serious issue as it not only affect drug abuser’s health (both mentally and physically), it also affects individuals around the person who does drugs and even our society. Major problems led by drug abuse that affects other people are domestic abuse, negative influence on children and financial issues.

It is very challenging to make someone to stop taking drugs, therefore, I created this map to raise awareness of dangers of drug abuse. I created activities that mimics the short term effects of drugs, these activities are quite uncomfortable, especially the ecstasy one, hoping that individuals could realize that doing drug doesn’t actually feel that pleasuring, so that people who tried my map could stay away from drugs.

My map:

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