Looking forward to seeing your final projects on Thursday! A reminder that the final presentations will be 2:30-5 PM on Thursday at the usual link. You will have 6 minutes, max, to present. If you were not in class on Thursday (@Leslie @AJ), you’ll want to watch this video of last class to see expectations and final tips and…[Read more]

Hope you had a great weekend.

Here is a good article about the concept that immigrants should “get in line”. It is from 2017 but is mostly accurate for today as well.

And I thought I’d share this image from a Facebook post by Alex Rivera this week. What a clever design solution!

Enjoy!
Professor Gálvez

Hope you’re enjoying your Spring Break!

Here are some links Professor Silva found that will help you identify and frame problems.

• Design problem statements — what they are and how to frame them
• How to solve a design problem?
• No one said they wanted faster horses, they wanted less horseshit
• You don’t have to be an expert t…

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Happy International Women’s Day! Hope you’re honoring the women in your life!

As you prepare for your interviews, you may be interested to read this article about Oprah Winfrey’s interview with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry that aired yesterday— great observations about what makes a great interview! Oprah reminded us how intervi…[Read more]

-Gálvez, “I won’t tell my story”
–Eclipse of Dreams, pick 2 of the stories to read and comment on in the discussion forum. Marco will be our 5th speaker in the guest lecture series (and was the “star” of Infiltrators).

Read:

How I stopped worrying and learned to love design thinking, by Christina Wodtke, Medium 2017

Begin to work on inte…[Read more]

For this assignment, you will conduct, transcribe and analyze a structured interview.

Review the interview questions we prepared in class. Select 10-12 questions you would like to use and put them in an order that makes sense. Usually it’s best to start with easier questions like “where were you born?” and then only…[Read more]

You say:

Many of those who apply for asylum with legitimate claims are still rejected because of how dysfunctional and xenophobic the system can be. I’ve never known someone who had their claim for a…

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You say:

This program does not exclude anyone as everyone plays their role or is involved for instance people who are citizens of the United States may feel safer when criminals are being deported. Unfortunately, on the other hand it does harm families and children as…

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Would reopening and renewing IRCA be “the solution” to immigration issues today? Why or why not?

What is it? What was the intent of this program or category? Did it replace an earlier program or category? Did it seek to solve a specific problem or issue? Who created it (e.g. a particular president, congress, international organization like the UN)?

The intent…

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What spoke to me the most would be when he said that many things is our lives are globalized but our citizenships are localize and how the the most powerless have the most logical reasons to move and seek happiness those are the ones who find themselves trapped behind militarized border walls and the system is unattainable

Great reflections! How did the Beltrán book and the Lytle Hernandez book inform your thinking?

When you say this:

What spoke to me the most would be when he said that many things is our lives are globalized but our citizenships are localize and how the the most powerless have the most logical reasons to move and seek happiness those are…

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This is great:

It would be incredible to see the immigration system without violence without crime and how it would be to see it differently.

How do you think that can be achieved? Are you starting to see how your reflections on the immigration materials in your response and to the design materials could be brought together?

This is powerful:

That’s it what I liked about Alex Rivera’s talk and his material, he was able to transport me to somehow “kinda” understand how it is like to really risk yourself for something good and noble without considering the repercussions, that takes a lot of guts and selfless act. We need more people to learn from this stories…

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Read

-Cruelty as Citizenship by Beltrán, read the Intro (available on Amazon or Google Books as a sample ebook)

–Migra! by Lytle Hernández, read the intro, available as an e-book at Lehman Library

Design:

Read:

Design Thinking: Stakeholder Maps, by Matthew Weprin, Medium, 2016

Watch:

What is Service Design? A tale of two c…[Read more]

Thank you very much for your lively engagement Thursday in class!
We have information for you about how our guest speaker series (https://www.dropbox.com/s/odlemckci1180cw/DesignSpeakerSeries_Spring%2021_FINAL.pdf?dl=0)…[Read more]

Pick one of the following immigration legal categories or programs and complete the following questions thoroughly. The thoroughness of your answers will enable more focused and productive work later on in the semester.

Each of these should be defined in the US context, eg, for asylum, which is established under…[Read more]

Read:

Americas Quarterly, The Migration Issue, 2020.

Americas Quarterly, Our Immigrant Hemisphere, 2008 You don’t need to read every word of every article in these two issues of the Americas Quarterly, but read as much as…[Read more]