31st July 2020 This evening, my third and final engagement activity took place. I had the pleasure of interviewing Calvin Sulistio, a junior analyst and consultant in Life Cycle. With regards to the SLCA, Calvin is involved with refining the standardisation process – clarifying the social standards that will be used for comparison with the […]
Engagement Activity #2 – Online Interview with Dr Jessica Hanafi
22nd July 2020 This evening, I had the absolute pleasure of speaking with Dr Jessica Hanafi, Founder and Executive Director at PT Life Cycle Indonesia. The focus of this engagement was to talk about the Pilot Program and also social sustainability with regards to the livelihoods of farmers in Jakarta Indonesia. The interview was incredibly […]
Service Exec (Service) Final Thoughts S4
It’s truly been a pleasure serving as the Vice-Chair of Service Exec this year. I’m especially proud of the Service Exec team and really grateful for Brooke who served as Chair. Through my time in Exec this year, I feel that I’ve been able to consolidate and expand my skills of leadership. I’ve been fortunate […]
Saint Hoax Consolidation
Saint Hoax is a pseudonymous artist that best describes his work as ‘POPlitical’—an amalgamation of pop art with a political message. His activist art pieces use satirical and humorous self-explanatory visuals to create a form of political and social currency. In his campaign ‘Making America Misogynistic Again’, Saint Hoax provides political commentary on Donald Trump’s […]
Guerrilla Girls Consolidation
The Guerrilla Girls are a group of feminist activist artists that aim to expose bias, discrimination, elitism and imbalance in the art world. By using startling statistics, humour and outrageous visuals, the Guerilla Girls aim to undermine the mainstream narrative by revealing the understory, subtext, overlooked and unfair. Their activism targets the ‘cookie-cutter’ definitions of […]
IO Outline Reflection
What two things will you foreground for your next IO practice? 1. To provide wider contextualisation within the body of works Although I managed to touch upon this to some extent, I need to situate the poem or advert within their body of works as a whole right from the very beginning. This includes specifying […]
Delilah – Carol Ann Duffy
The polyvocal poem Delilah by Carol Ann Duffy is a form of intertextuality that reconstructs the traditional Biblical story of Samson and Delilah. Samson is presented to constitute alpha male tropes whilst Delilah, previously portrayed to be a temptress that led to the ultimate downfall of Samson, is presented anew by Duffy as an empowered […]
Engagement Activity #1 – Shadowing Ethan Puar
24th March 2020 Today was the first engagement I participated in. The focus for this engagement was to create and refine questions that would be used for the actual survey to be conducted for the field study. The purpose of the survey is to collate the necessary data from JAPFA’s pool of farmers to measure […]
U19 Girls Badminton (Activity) Final Thoughts S3 #L04
As iterated in the post that spoke about my initial thoughts coming into badminton season, I was evidently quite disheartened by how I was unable to make A team despite all my efforts. In hindsight, I see what has happened to be a very worthwhile experience. During the training sessions, I had more one-to-one time […]