A Project on Disability

Over summer I had the opportunity to live and work with disabled people and It really made me change my opinion on disability in general. This has really driven my passion in wanting to help represent good causes and peoples differences within my design. I really want to do a project that represents disability and helps stop the stigmas associated with it. I hate when talk about disability in negative way like referring to someone as 'Err they look like a Down syndrome' or 'thats so sad poor them' I feel like with more knowledge people will be able to understand and therefore treat people with the respect they deserve. I want to create a big project which could lead into a campaign by creating a publication that shares knowledge of disability in a unique and well thought out way.

Starting the project I wanted to write down the thoughts in my head. This led to my main idea of a publication. I want to create something different from a NHS style Leaflet or complicated website. My main aim is to create something that represents a little bit of how the people with these disabilities feel

I was struggling to start this project as I had many ideas in my head and I wanted some tutor feedback before getting stuck in. I talked to Amber and two fellow designers about my idea.

Some very good points were raised within the discussion which I had not yet thought of. 

Such as how do I put across the message that all disabilities should be treated differently however I would be categorising them into the same publication therefore I would be slightly going against my own message.

Also although a publication is a interesting way to put across this information it needs to be justified, I need to figure out, where it would be, who is the audience and why would they want to read it.

Together we thought maybe I could make this brief into a collection of publications so I would not be to heavily categorising the disabilities. 

My next steps will be a survey to find my best target audience followed by more detailed ideas.