Project 1: My community My Commitment
(Exploring the sense of environmental and community engagement as future designer)

There are many ways in which designers experience a community. The purpose of this project is to further develop
these community skills. By working in teams of 12 we are given the opportunity to deepen our team work abilities. We
create and adapt strategies that allow us to benefit from the knowledge of our team and contribute to that
knowledge. These skills are crucial in our ability to develop good professional design practice in the future.
Therefore, in participating in this project helps me as an individual to engage with the theme, but also to embrace,
examine and reflect on the notions of community as its active member.

 

For this task we were asked to identify an environmental-community related issue in our local community. The issues have to be genuine and any solution provided by my team must have an impact to the environment and community. There for my team chose the Sivananda Ashram located nearby Batu Caves. Sivananda Home is a registered welfare organization that has been in existence since 2012, located in Kampung Baru Batu Caves and specifically focusing on orphans and underprivileged children. The board of Trustees includes 3 members of Divine Life Society Malaysia and 3 other non-members. Currently they have approximately 30 children aged from 8 – 17years old.

 

The issue within the home is the gardening area. It is not suitable for children to play there due to overgrown weeds and minor plantations. There are a number of old tyres and some unused rubbish which some contain water that would be a potential place for mosquitoes to breed. Therefore, we decided to create a new outdoor landscape as a better environment for the children to be at. This also enables them to be educated about disease prone environment and contribution to the environment.

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Link for the website: http://esdgroup2016.wixsite.com/project

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