2010年12月16日星期四
2010年12月9日星期四
Design Project A: Concept
Concept 1
- It is combining the double bed with the boxing stage to represent the violence between man and wife which is so unnecessary.
2. It is combing the nipple (of a feeding bottle) and the iron ring ( It is a made up name by my own, please see the picture) in order to warn people that do not put violence on children.
Concept 2
I am thinking of a board game designed for the whole family. We hope it can help to develop the relationship between each other in family.
Design Project A and Design Research: Conflict Resolution
Research Map
From: http://www.standingtogether.org.uk
Thirdly, the Breakdown of Charges/offences arriving at the SDVC by year is shown as a big scale of table as below:
In this table, we can find that the number of cases involving support through court proceedings was increasing in these five years. We can say that the court played a more and more important role in against the domestic violence happened. There are a lot more data for us in the report. I only post the most significant ones here.
I have spend my spare time to research in my personal interest area-the movies. I watched a lot of them, and found two really inspired me. They both mainly relate to Children abusing.
1. An American Crime
Starring: Ellen Page, Catherine Keener, Hayley McFarland, Ari Graynor, Scout Taylor-Compton.
Plot: It alternates between the 1966 trial of Gertrude Baniszewski (Catherine Keener), and lengthy flashbacks to the events of the previous year described by the witnesses.
16-year-old Sylvia Likens (Ellen Page) and her 15-year-old sister, Jenny (Hayley McFarland), have, in the past, travelled with their parents who work on the carnival circuit, where Sylvia always felt safe riding the merry-go-round. She and Jenny now live with their mother Betty Likens (Romy Rosemont), who recently separated from their father Lester Likens (Nick Searcy). Betty reconciles with him and they decide to go on tour together. They agree to leave their daughters in the care of a single mother named Gertrude Baniszewski, whose daughters the Likens girls met in church. In dire financial straits, Gertrude offers to care for their daughters for twenty dollars a week, and as their parents leave, the girls settle in with Baniszewski's six children: Paula (17), Stephanie (16), Johnny (13), Marie (12), Shirley (10), and infant son Kenny. The abused story started here from Sylvia telling that Paula is pregnant.
Background introduction:
2. Aurore
Starring Marianne Fortier, Serge Postigo and others.
Synopsis
The movie itself is based on a true story and was filmed in the small community of Saint-Philémon-de-Fortierville south of Trois-Rivières. The main character, Aurore Gagnon, was born in 1909 to Marie-Anne Caron and Telesphore Gagnon as the second child of the couple. However, during the fall of 1917, Aurore's mother develops tuberculosis. Plans are made to give custody of Aurore and her sister Marie-Jeanne to Telesphore and his late cousin's wife Marie-Anne (often simply referred to as Telesphore's cousin in the movie), with whom he fell in love.
Aurore's mother passes away in 1918, and Telesphore and Marie-Anne marry immediately after the funeral. The situation soon becomes worse for Aurore. Marie-Anne carries out most of the abuse by slapping Aurore, striking her feet with a 2X4 with nails, and burning her with a burning steel hook. Her father also abuses her by slapping her and striking her with an axe handle. She is also locked in an isolated room with little food.
When the peace judge and several others, including doctors, arrive at Aurore's home, it is too late: she collapsed in the stairs and was attacked again by Marie-Anne with a 2X4. Doctors are unable to save Aurore, who passes away from blood poisoning.
After Aurore's funeral, the couple is arrested for Aurore's death. Telesphore is sentenced to life in prison for manslaughter. His cousin and wife Marie-Anne is initially sentenced to death by hanging for second degree murder. She is then given a life sentence, but health issues force her to leave the jail, and she later dies from breast and brain cancer. Father Leduc, whom Oreus blames for his lack of action on the case, kills himself with explosives.
Above quoting from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurore
3. The Conflict Resolution Terminal
Posters
Furthermore, I researched a number of posters design works. Most of them are using photography realistically as methods to represent the pain brought from domestic violence, giving a very strong visual impact to the readers. All these inspired me a lot about how to develop my own concept. So I would like to keep attention on them.
Summary of Brainstorming
Key words 1. People VS People
In everyday life, people have to communicate with the others. It is really hard to avoid facing conflicts during we are living.
Key words 2. Family members and domestic violence
In my brainstorming, I distinguish three types of relations within people: the strangers, the family members, and the friends. I think there will be more conflicts happen in the family group for they are much more closed to each other in living. Moreover, the closer we live, the serious violence we will face. It even can change a whole life of the person.
Key words 3. Husband and Wife
The violence in case between husband and wife happens most frequently and it will affect children indirectly, representing as assault, ague, and abuse( physically or mentally)
Key words 4.Parents to Children
The most pained case of violence happens on children which affects children directly, representing as assault, abuse(mostly in physical) and abandon.
Key words 5.Old people
The cases are represented mostly as mentally abuse and abandon.
By the way, in China, it is really normal that parents punish children by beating them, especially to boys. Although the law clearly forbids the beating way of parents, it is still believed that the punishment can help children keep good behaviors. Punished by beating is not only a way of education, but also a way of proving parents’ love on their children.
Research Process
According to my research subject, my firstly focused on searching the organization or institution which is helping people against domestic violence. I found the United Nations Children's Fund at the beginning. However, it is too big to study deep and it is not easy to contact. Then I found the local institution called Standing Together Against Domestic Violence. Established in 1998, Standing Together Against Domestic Violence (Standing Together) coordinates the ground-breaking multi-agency response to the crime of domestic violence. Because it is a local institution in a clear response area, I believe that it would be more easier to contact them and get details of information. So I got in touch with them, asked if I can do a interview to them by emailing. The staff of Standing together was so nice to respond.
During the interview, I asked a few questions in order to get a whole picture of the reality in domestic violence subject, and also to know about the specific details in cases. The questions had been asked as followed:
- In your acknowledge, do you think that the situation of domestic violence is serious now? Could you please describe how serious it is?
- By the cases study, do you know which types of domestic violence happen most frequently or more general?
- Is there any specific types of person would more likely under the case of domestic violence? I mean female, children or the older.
- To the solution, what ways of solution or complain could be chosen for the victims?
- How do the perpetrators get punished in most case? Do you think most of them had been judged appropriately?
- How many ways of punishment to the perpetrators? Do the victims always are satisfied by the results?
The officer who responded me in the interview gave me a brief answer to above questions. At the same time, he send me a PDF of a research study about the statistics in the past few years in domestic violence area which is so useful to me. Therefore, after the interview, I was engrossed in this file and got a lot of ideas from it.
The report relates to figures collated from the Specialist Domestic Violence Court(SDVC) held at West London Magistrates Court. The two boroughs covered by the SDVC are:
London Borough of HAMMERSMITH & Fulham (LBHF)
Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea (RBKC)
Time period of the data:2003-2008
The first graph I would like to post here is a triangle. In the triangle below are the baseline statistics drawn up prior to implementation of the Standing Together initiative in 1998. The top half of the triangle uses research and population figures to set the context.The lower half of the triangle presents actual figures from the Fulham part of the borough and starkly represents the high attrition rate in domestic violence cases. This is the problem that the Standing Together initiative set out to address.
We can see how small the number is for the effective punish to the perpetrators in above triangle. It tells us the whole picture of the serious situation in a way.
Secondly, I pose the table of the key indicators of the SDVC by year from the data report.
Over the past 5 years there has been:
An increase in the percentage of defendants convicted
An increase in the percentage of early guilty pleas
An decrease in the percentage of discontinuances/withdrawals
An decrease in the number of hearings per completed case
An decrease in the number of days between charge and completion
An decrease in the number of NEO dismissals
Learning from the table, we can see the Common Assault,ABH,Criminal Damage and Harassment were the four most common charges to arrive over all years.These four charges have consistently constituted approximately three quarters of all the charges arriving in the SDVC.
Fourthly:
Just over 60% of convicted defendants received a community sentence since the start of the SDVC. The proportion of defendants receiving a financial penalty as a sole sentence remains low. 4% (n=21) of all convicted defendants received a financial sentence only over the entire five years.
At last, I would like to post the table of Cases involving support of victim/witnesses by voluntary agencies at the SDVC during Years 2 - 5 by borough.
In this table, we can find that the number of cases involving support through court proceedings was increasing in these five years. We can say that the court played a more and more important role in against the domestic violence happened. There are a lot more data for us in the report. I only post the most significant ones here.
References from http://www.standingtogether.org.uk/index.html
Researching in movies
I have spend my spare time to research in my personal interest area-the movies. I watched a lot of them, and found two really inspired me. They both mainly relate to Children abusing.
1. An American Crime
It is a 2007 American crime-drama film directed by Tommy O'Haver.
Starring: Ellen Page, Catherine Keener, Hayley McFarland, Ari Graynor, Scout Taylor-Compton.
Plot: It alternates between the 1966 trial of Gertrude Baniszewski (Catherine Keener), and lengthy flashbacks to the events of the previous year described by the witnesses.
16-year-old Sylvia Likens (Ellen Page) and her 15-year-old sister, Jenny (Hayley McFarland), have, in the past, travelled with their parents who work on the carnival circuit, where Sylvia always felt safe riding the merry-go-round. She and Jenny now live with their mother Betty Likens (Romy Rosemont), who recently separated from their father Lester Likens (Nick Searcy). Betty reconciles with him and they decide to go on tour together. They agree to leave their daughters in the care of a single mother named Gertrude Baniszewski, whose daughters the Likens girls met in church. In dire financial straits, Gertrude offers to care for their daughters for twenty dollars a week, and as their parents leave, the girls settle in with Baniszewski's six children: Paula (17), Stephanie (16), Johnny (13), Marie (12), Shirley (10), and infant son Kenny. The abused story started here from Sylvia telling that Paula is pregnant.
Background introduction:
Based on the true story of the torture and murder of Sylvia Likens by Indianapolis housewife Gertrude Baniszewski, it premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. Because of internal problems with the film's original distributor, First Look International, the film was not released theatrically. The Showtime television network officially premiered An American Crime on May 10, 2008. The film was nominated for a Golden Globe, an Emmy (both for Keener's performance) and a Writer's Guild Award.
Above quoting from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_American_Crime
2. Aurore
Aurore is a 2005 Quebec biographical drama movie that was directed by Luc Dionne and produced by Denise Robert and Daniel Louis. The movie is a remake of Jean-Guy Bigras 1952 movie La Petite Aurore : l'enfant martyre. (English trans. Little Aurore: The Child Martyr)
Starring Marianne Fortier, Serge Postigo and others.
Synopsis
The movie itself is based on a true story and was filmed in the small community of Saint-Philémon-de-Fortierville south of Trois-Rivières. The main character, Aurore Gagnon, was born in 1909 to Marie-Anne Caron and Telesphore Gagnon as the second child of the couple. However, during the fall of 1917, Aurore's mother develops tuberculosis. Plans are made to give custody of Aurore and her sister Marie-Jeanne to Telesphore and his late cousin's wife Marie-Anne (often simply referred to as Telesphore's cousin in the movie), with whom he fell in love.
Aurore's mother passes away in 1918, and Telesphore and Marie-Anne marry immediately after the funeral. The situation soon becomes worse for Aurore. Marie-Anne carries out most of the abuse by slapping Aurore, striking her feet with a 2X4 with nails, and burning her with a burning steel hook. Her father also abuses her by slapping her and striking her with an axe handle. She is also locked in an isolated room with little food.
When the peace judge and several others, including doctors, arrive at Aurore's home, it is too late: she collapsed in the stairs and was attacked again by Marie-Anne with a 2X4. Doctors are unable to save Aurore, who passes away from blood poisoning.
After Aurore's funeral, the couple is arrested for Aurore's death. Telesphore is sentenced to life in prison for manslaughter. His cousin and wife Marie-Anne is initially sentenced to death by hanging for second degree murder. She is then given a life sentence, but health issues force her to leave the jail, and she later dies from breast and brain cancer. Father Leduc, whom Oreus blames for his lack of action on the case, kills himself with explosives.
Above quoting from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurore
3. The Conflict Resolution Terminal
It is an idea from a Chinese movie named If You Are the One. The idea is that using the finger-guessing game which we all played when we were children as a solution to terminate the conflict among us. It was a cylinder made up of two plastic tubes with handels. During the two who disagree with each other using it, they should offer one hand and put it into the tubes, making their mind on what pose of finger they would like to show. Then pulling apart the tubes when it is counted on three, by the rules of the finger-guess game, the winner would clearly come out. One of the advantages is that no one can cheat and change their finger temporarily by using it.
Although it is a funny way of solution represented in the movie as comedic story. It is further surprised to find that there is an actual product created by a Chinese software designer for iphone surface. It is selling on App store now and working as the same idea as what the movie told.
Posters
Furthermore, I researched a number of posters design works. Most of them are using photography realistically as methods to represent the pain brought from domestic violence, giving a very strong visual impact to the readers. All these inspired me a lot about how to develop my own concept. So I would like to keep attention on them.
Book reading
During searching the idea in domestic violence subject, I also looked for some academic reading for supporting the concepts. There are two books I found. One is named Culture & Conflict Resolution by Kevin Avruch. The other one is named Sexism and the War system(by Betty A. Reardon) which is slightly more connective to my ideas.
During searching the idea in domestic violence subject, I also looked for some academic reading for supporting the concepts. There are two books I found. One is named Culture & Conflict Resolution by Kevin Avruch. The other one is named Sexism and the War system(by Betty A. Reardon) which is slightly more connective to my ideas.
The theories that talk about sexism and feminism, enemies and victimes and the peace system are inspired. However, they are too academic to be use practically for developing my concept. So I gave up to read in details. But I still mansion them here, because they could be really good sources for helping me level up my academic thinking. We will never know that if there will be a chance needing such thinkings.
Timetable
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