Project 1_My Community My Commitment

Introduction
The project "My Community My Commitment" is about environmental-community related issue in our local community. The issues have to be genuine and any solution provided must have an impact to the environment as well as the community. This allows students to explore the sense of environmental and community engagement, examine and reflect on notions of community as its active member. Though interactive and dynamics exercises, students will gain a deeper understanding of environment and their responsibility to community.


Learning Outcome
On successful completion of this project, students will be able to demonstrate the following:

• Produce a complete documentation of the entire project from proposal up to completion 
• Produce a multimedia presentation on the issue and process taken to resolve the issue
• Able to demonstrate problem-solving skills
• Recognize role and responsibility of an architect towards environment and society
• Exemplify creativity in attempting to explore the current environmental circumstances 

Tasks

By working in team, students have to identify an environmental-community related issue in local community. The issues have to be genuine and any solution provided must have an impact to environment and community.

In a group of 10, the understanding of sustainability and responsibility as a designer should be reflected throughout the execution while exploring the issue, writing an effective issue-solving-proposal, execution of the project on site, engaging the site and community and creating the awareness and impact via the solution/product.

Besides completing the community services, students also assigned to produce the following tasks:

• Multimedia presentation of the entire project from proposal to completion
• Documentary Report

Submission
Selected Organisation: Good Samaritan Home (GSH), Klang

Group Members: Ronn Chua, Vicky Lee, WeeMin Chia, VoonYin Wong, Eelyn Cheong, Jacquelyn Tan, HuiYu Teoh, Evon Low, Jovi Chin, Edwin Ho

Group Photo

Multimedia Presentation:

Report:

Appendix:

Reflection

It has been such an interesting experience running this environmental-community service. Even though it was a long and challenging journey/task, we finally completed the task satisfyingly at the end. From this project, I learnt to be a better person in caring the community and environment. In a team, I learnt to communicate with my group mates and able to learn from their creativity and discipline while planning the tasks. As architecture students, we are able to solve the problems and improve the community with our architectural skills. I'm happy with my team and we wish to visit the orphanage home again.