POLITICAL ORIENTATION

OUR THEME:
We chose political orientation, as we see that graphic design an imagery in various topics can be very important.
We also focus on how the information/truth can be portrayed as well as how extreme groups can change the meaning of an image with a simple slogan.

SOCIAL PRACTICES 2- POLITICAL ORIENTATION

THE GROUP:

each one of us focussed on a different topic that we found interesting, and we found a way to merge them all together.

CEDRIC: AIDS Activism

KINGA:The Reduction of The Message

JULIA: Portrayal of Women During Wartimes

Women are mostly depicted as guardians and caretakers of the home, it makes them objects of men's affection, yet also resilient, active participants in war efforts.
Women were reminders of the fight, th ecompanionship that awaited soldiers back home.

Most of the propaganda idealises the familiy home, symbolizing peace and safety.
In many propaganda women are being called to help in the home front nut yet they are depicted as these,pretty fragile women, that always have to look pretty and nice in order to do their jobs.
Even when these women were allowed to have these jobs, they needed permission of their father or husband. For a woman to be a nurse she had to fill out a form where her fathers job needed to be stated in order to be considered for a certain position.

Women were in the shadow of their husbands.

Nevertheless if these roles would be reversed nowadays we would think that they're ridiculous, and that in 2022 that could never happen.

SAM: Housing Scarcity and Creative Revolt

The production of laws and regulations in times of Turmoil

On the AIDS crisis and the cultural activism taking place during the 1980s

THE CRIMINALIZATION OF HIV
In the mid-1980s, lawmakers— in response to the demands of vocal constituents, religious groups, and politicians—began to rapidly enact legislation across the US to criminalize HIV-positive individuals who allegedly exposed others to the virus [7]. Early HIV criminalization laws were developed within the context of a high mortality rate, lack of understanding of the virus, and general fear and panic among the public.

Cann, Deanna et al. “Historical and Current Trends in HIV Criminalization in South Carolina: Implications for the Southern HIV Epidemic.” AIDS and behavior vol. 23,Suppl 3 (2019): 233-241. doi:10.1007/s10461-019-02599-1

The National Archives’ records give a valuable insight into how the government interacted with and viewed LGBTQ+ communities in the past. The state’s attempts to suppress and regulate sexuality and gender has paradoxically left us with many potential sources for the experiences of LGBTQ+ people.

https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/gay-lesbian-history/

BRAINSTORM SESSIONS:

SOME EXAMPLES OF THE TOPICS

KICK- OFF EXERCISE IN CLASS

During our first meeting in class
we had to make a little representation
of how we would to present our final
project, and this is what we came up with:

Having images displayed on a table with no
description whatsoever, and let our classmates
make their own opinions about them.
After that we told them the titles we chose
for each image so that one could see how much
a slogan or a title can change one's opinion
on a topic.

Titles:
1. Portrait of a gay man
2. Kiev after the Russian victory
3. The Gay takeover
4. life with the dutch/ without the dutch
5. Yes to tulip fields, no to arab fields
6. Northen lights have been hacked
7. Careful who you let in
8. Don't let them in