Problem Solving Content
The assignment involves:
1 Writing a report (mostly text, but you are encouraged to include visuals that can help reinforce, supplement or provide better understanding of your arguments).
2 Making a slide presentation of the report’s summary (this is what you will present to your peers during finals week, ).
What should your report include:
(1) Introduction – wicked/tame problems (400 words) Introduce the OWU community the environmental problem of pollinators decline, (how is this a wicked problem) and the ways environmental art on college campuses can induce their mobility and promote campus community. You should provide pertinent background information on the pollinators decline and a brief rationale on why and how pollinator gardens would be important, particularly for the liberal arts college campus. Using keywords: mobility, migration, belonging, address how is our class MRP – Move Research Project connected with the themes of the seminar.
(2) Challenges – tame problems (300 – 400 words) Challenges of the public outdoor artworks, and particularly the challenges of pollinator gardens:
(3) Discusses the gathered information (300 words) Discuss how the information was gathered, and define relevant groups for the project. Discuss what are the limitations and concerns that different groups might have about the project, data limitation, what other information might need to be gathered and why.
(4)(5) Recommendations & evaluation ( 600 – 800 words)
(4) Explain the assessment and feasibility of possible solutions (5) Discusses what could be implementation steps and recommendations
Provide and discuss 3 – 5 recommendations for how the project of building pollinator gardens on campus be implemented and sustained. Discuss why it would be important to perceive and connect these gardens with existing outdoor campus artworks.
Your recommendations should include suggestions for:
Consultation – academic programs, campus maintenance (landscape), local groups
Communication, outreach – what is the necessary information for:
Garden’s maintenance (manual),
Information for online support, for the following purposes: educational, engagement, marketing, map
How can public spaces and artworks become strategic points of inclusive community engagement and tell a multidimensional story of place and people.
Also, you could reference specific recommendations involving academic curriculum, ( credit for classes, research opportunities), student residential life (clubs, Greek Life), student employment (work study, STAP positions, internships).
Provide one sample of communication and outreach to campus community and to the city of Delaware that you believe would be effective and important for the project in following ways:
Promote (and educate) about the project and project goals
Recrute, support, sustain (labor, fundraiser)
This sample could be a rough draft idea for booklet/brochures, webpage, podcast, series of social media posts, etc.
(6) Connection* Suggest how this MRP project experience along with your own disciplinary interests could engage you to approach the Connection Experience(s) that you decide to pursue on your academic journey at OWU. Basically, you would need to reference the process of problem solving, and how would you approach it relevant to the possible idea of a project you have in mind. Even if you have the idea for a very similar project or are considering taking the pollinators’ gardens project into the next stage, you can list what are, in your opinion, steps for the next stage.
