CUNY Academic Commons

Immigrants had to abide by a narrow system and yet it is so broad and unjust when forcing them to adhere to its unfair specifications. The government expects people not to be able to stand up for themselves and are taken aback when they preform unprecedented things such as speaking English. They assume things about illegals which formulates an…[Read more]

Interview Transcription

Misael: Bienvenidos. Te voy a preguntar de cosas de cuando estabas migrando a los Estados Unidos. Mi nombre es Misael Calderon y con la primera pregunta empesamos. Endonde naciste?

Herica: Republica Dominicana.

Misael: Cuanto anos tienes?

Herica: Cinquenta y siete.

Misael: Cuanto anos tenia cuando migro a los…[Read more]

3. In the “Design Thinking as Expertise Thinking” section of the Medium piece, the authors explain how we can think of mundane tasks with expertise. What are the techniques, or steps, you take to perform mundane tasks throughout the day, like brushing your teeth or preparing a snack?

Techniques that are mundane require little effort to them eve…[Read more]

Write a question for Meghan Preiss.

How would you apply the concept of service design  to somethings that aren’t mainstream like a drawing or short comic, but that you want to promote nonetheless? Basically how could you include interdependency/interrelations and co-creation while also putting the person at the heart of your design when…[Read more]

Misael Calderon

Why/How/When was this program or category created in the US? Is it an active program/category or is it expired/never activated?

U.S. officials called the separation of families a pilot program and had not even thought of a system to dealing with these things before Donald Trump’s ‘zero tolerance’ policy. May fifth of 2017 was whe…[Read more]

I did questions 1 and 3. They are pasted in the pdf attached.