COMMENTS FROM THE CRITIQUE
WORDS FROM A VARIETY OF PROFESSIONALS

- Cater to those who don’t have confidence about their culture?
- Think and research about why they do not have confidence?
- Is it because they simply don’t have the knowledge?

- Is it 2d vs. 3d?
- How do different languages conflict with the mission?
- Possible to study one group?
- Look into Placematters.net
- Confusion about the final outcome
- A welcome kit?
- A booklet explaining the stereotypes and dos and don’ts in New York City.

- Look into pbs case studies on immigrants
- Emergency situations
- Ex-military problems?
- What is urgent?

- what makes your “memory” box special from a Martha Stewart scrapbook/box kit?
- Is a feature that makes it fireproof setting it apart?
- Why not just make one for everyone?
- This idea of pluralism should be negated or brought out stronger
- Will the final product be extremely modern and sleek? Or will it be a traditional box with a lot of cultural implications?
- How does the time of stay affect the interaction with the box

- Visit the Chinatown museum on Mott street, lower eastside tenement museum, and go to Ellis Island
- How do you create memory?- how do museums capture memory? Look at the natural museum of history, they essentially capture time and history,
- Clarify a more specific problem: is it the problem of interracial marriage?
- Get really specific: look into why you chose this area. What is really bugging you? About immigrants and the problems that lie?
- Start making program: Junkspace
- Define the 5 w’s: will clear up argument
- How will you define the size
- What forces users to use?

- Could it become a game?
- Look at monopoly for NYC
- Trivial game dealing with a specific subject, (food?)
- Information to others? Outside of the immigrant culture
- How to become an Immigrant
- This can make this subject manner a very playful educational process
- Carly Yates .