Potential Challenges from Round 1 of Interviews

24th February, 2015

• Reduce/Waste of Food
• Reduce consumption
• Packaging/ Packaging of Food
• Awareness/Mentality of being mobile
• Ease of being mobile
• Safety of being mobile
• Access to more mobility for fitness
• Access to healthy food resources

Each aspect of a livable community is strongly related to another where in they all form a interdependent network. By trying to focus on one single issue, we realize that we may be directly or indirectly affecting another either positively or negatively. Understanding the bigger picture or larger context was important. However it seemed that further research would be imperative in truly understanding core needs of the community. We began with a rather broad sense of what the community at large might need. But to zoom into the problem we identified that having a connection into the community especially through a local organization could be especially valuable in moving forward. We considered local organizations such as DTLA Rising, LABC, Repower LA, etc. Following which we will further ideate and possible interview community members as opposed to only mobile or local businesses. Our change in direction for interviews from businesses to community members is a direct example of the relativity between the various challenges we discussed.