Beauty Standards

When people tell you that you’re different

To be perfectly honest, I first felt uncomfortable and unsure of how to approach this week’s topic. Growing up in North America has made me extremely sensitive to race, beauty, femininity, masculinity…

Short hair, don’t care

A little over a year ago, I cut my hair. Having donned the same long hair all of my life, I couldn’t have anticipated how a new haircut would dramatically alter the way I perceived the world around me, and was in turned perceived by it. It might sound crazy, that a haircut could have such…

The Graffiti problem at the Luxor temple:

On the revival of Egyptian tourism

This post attempts to devise a new solution to prevent people from writing graffiti on the ancient columns and walls at the Luxor temple in Egypt.

1. Archaeology of the…

Home today, gone tomorrow!

Framing the recent demolition drive in Bangalore using Dorst’s method

Framing and representation

Framing the “comfort women” issue using Kees Dorst’s method

“This difficulty is the result of the emergence of a radically new species of problem: problems that are so open, complex, dynamic, and networked that they…

Seminar 01-To be married or to be happy?

Currently, in China, people are getting married later and later, especially in metropolitans. In the meantime, the number of women who are over 27 and still single has been increased considerably which become a social hotspot. For those women, people name…

Framing & Representation

Week 4

For this assignment, I’m going to continue to look at the wicked problem I mentioned last week, highway development through “blighted” low-income neighborhoods.

The Image of Self

This post was written for Molly Steenson’s Seminar I: Interaction & Service Design Concepts 2016, CMU School of Design.

Growing up in a world that is obsessed with women’s bodies is no easy feat. At every stage of your life, you are faced with unreal expectations…

Framing a problem — Obesity and poverty

Obesity, could it be a sufficient evidence of poverty?

A few days ago, I, again, came across an article about Obesity: The world is struggling with childhood obesity, 42 million kids in this world are reported to be overweight. As a…