KJ GCE Portfolio

Hi Visitor, In Design & Engineering Unit 1 we focused on how daily uses like public transportation, cars, and other essential tools that we take for granted aren't designed for the use of Seniors. We read an article about how the population of seniors is only going to rise, so it's better that we start designing with seniors in mind. Before this upcoming action project was presented to us, we learned classes of levers, math concepts like soh-cah-toa, vectors, and the Pythagorean theorem. This was also met with articles that talk about aging and the things that come with it, like weakened muscles and aging bones, so we can further empathize with the seniors. For this action project, we were asked to make a garden tool that is tailored to a senior gardener. The preparation for this was an interview with a senior gardener, so we could identify the common problems that seniors are having and possibly solve them. I interviewed a farmer; even though it’s a more extreme version of

 Hi Visitor, This AP was the very first Action Project of this term. The preparation we did for this Action Project was going to the Harold Washington Library and to the children's space to have some sort of visualization of what a lounge would look like, we also had a conversation about the design process and possible orders to attack the situation. Then we had to make a floor plan that provides a safe, non-violent, inclusive and effective learning environment out of a GCE classroom. This is my design of the student lounge.       "The Luxurious Prototype", K.J, 2022 The hardest part was probably filling the room up due to how much space there is. I tried filling the room to the best of my ability since I have no prior knowledge on to how to properly fill a room. I started with picking out the chairs, I wanted to fill the room the lounge with enough seats while maintaining the openness of the room so everyone doesn't feel bunched up together. But they have the possibi