Tag: Class of 2021

I am interested in exploring strategies toward the effective use of community space between drug users and housed families. Because I want to find safe outdoor relief models that offer inte- grated responsibility for homelessness users and their neighbors. In order to understand how to mitigate conflicts spatially and emotionally between community groups in public space. I am working at MacArthur park in the West-Lake neighborhood. This research began to look into the site background. This neighborhood has gone through several stages, from streetcar suburbs, dis-invested neighborhoods with the construction of Wilshire Bled and white flight, immigrant enclaves, to settlement of immigrants and their families.

My project argues that the unhoused as citizens and part of the community in our society have the right to enjoy leisure as we are even in this specific position in their life. Public space has the potential to provide comfort to the vagabond heart in its darkness. My research is to study the role of leisure in public space to create an equitable strategy for the enjoyment of a hospitable civic landscape. So that I could allow the unhoused population access to the momentary ease and well-being provided by leisure.

I am studying how artistic platforms can be used to amplify unhoused individuals’ voices in the public realm of Los Angeles because I want to find out expressive design interventions created from cross disciplinary collaboration can challenge the repressive principles that exist in the design of public space and advocate for the adoption of emancipatory design practices. By designing public spaces that encourage emotionality rather than repressing it, that provide a platform to be heard, we may be able to develop empathy in the dark places of ourselves that judge without justice, and we may be able to welcome those parts of humanity back that are beautiful for being able to feel.

We have more sense than ever to be part of the entire human race this year. We have more awareness of establishing a collective consciousness whether because of health, political or social reasons. A severe homeless crisis that has been exacerbated by our current pandemic, leading us to consider our society as whole to offer unique solutions to address this issue in terms of environment justice, social justice, and even fairness to the next generation.The topic I am studying is the homeless children who lives on street with mental health in Los Angeles, because I want to learn how shared civic space can support their participation with housed children through integrated community programming to better understand how to decrease the traumatic impact of homeless children and to provide a process towards a brighter future. The project starts with considering these special groups of people, their needs, simulating their daily route and how they use the spaces, and test design ideas how to create a beautiful but practical and interactive space so that children will smile unconsciously and arouse emotional resonance when they use the space. It represents the relationship between people and city, the relationship between people and the things they see. It is will be a place full of emotional therapy and joy.