1) What did you think of your visit to the UN? Which speaker did you find the most inspiring and why? What did you learn? What did it feel like to be inside the UN to hear these conversations?
I didn’t get a chance to visit the UN with class, but I watched the documentation video of the speeches from last year. First I have to admit I missed the chance to visit that beautiful chamber. After watching the short video about the interior restoration of the chamber, I learned about the history and design of the actual meeting place. I’m surprised that as part of the restoration they actually kept the celling part rather than building a new one. This somehow represents the long-lasting design, taking use of the existing material without using new material, as the result still is good! And in the speech video it the newly-designed furniture also look beautiful.
And among speeches, I like Joel’s speech and Finn’s video. The video is really impressive. I think Finn is lucky enough to have a mother taught him about climate change since he was a kid, influencing him with the positive ideas on climate change and what actions should be taken. The video is also cool. By showing the actual process of how scientists observe the change of glacier at Greenland, the persuasive evident were made as in the video the time lapse shows the drastic change of the glacier and how fast it was melting. It raised the people’s awareness of climate change.
And for Joel’s speech, I would say he really gave inspiration about how to see design in the perspective of sustainability. I like the phrase he use “to design the design” when he mentioned the need of reforming/changing the design education in response to the changing environment and climate issues. And he mentioned several work that were done by Parsons student, which I never knew before. Feel surprised too see sustainability related projects from our school.
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