Week 02: Territory Map
Presentation & Getting Feedback
Narrowing down the scope
We tried to focus on regional manufacturing labors. For the research purpose, we thought that regional labors have better accessibility than others. Also, considering Pittsburgh’s context, where a great mining industry existed, there seemed many resources that we could use.
Then, we designed our territory map. After finding the stakeholders of the manufacturing industry, we explored what are the possibilities or challenges could be related to each stakeholder.
Because of the climate changes and shifting of the industry, many low-income workers have to move to other areas, which arises loss of shelter and migration. Since blue-collar workers are more likely to be affected by a lack of food, they are also suffering from resource scarcity and under-nutrition. A poor working condition could give negative effects to their health. International Labor Organization adopted just transition movement so that unions might able to transfer workers to more sustainable but there are still many barriers for them to actually handle this problem. These are the possibility that we found through our territory mapping.
HMW Question & Connection to SDGs
Presentation & Feedbacks
After the presentation, we got a lot of feedback from Microsoft, professors, and cohorts
- More reasons for the topic: what is a blue color worker and why?
- What might the target audience be: empathize between who and who?
- What kind of actions are feasible?
- What actions do you think would be feasible?
- Available CMU resources: Anita, Charlee, Dylan, and Linda
- Movie recommendation: I, Daniel Blake
We all agreed that we hadn’t communicated the potential of our topic to others. The scope was not clear enough. Some of us were not confident about the topic, and so we took some time to make a conversation about how should we move forward.
The first thing we decided to do was taking some time individually to think about the project until Friday. Reframing the problem we were going to explore might be helpful– why should we work on this.
Research Plan
After reviewing our personal development, we decided to explore further on service workers (such as childcare or cleaners, etc). We mapped out the types of service workers and decided to speak to experts at the earliest to find out more.
Then, we wrote down the contacts that we could reach out through and the questions that we have to ask them.
