Reflection – Peer - Graded Assignment : 

 Redesigning the Youth ’s Perspectives on Agriculture 

 Challenge : 

 I work in the humanitarian sector at an organization that aims at reducing world hunger and promoting   food security through activities and interventions within the agriculture sector . While outreaching for   participants to one of our agriculture programs , we fell short on recruiting young participants ranging   between 18 and 23 years old . As we needed to meet our target , this was a challenge we had to overcome .   Studying the what is of the agriculture sector in our community , we realized that there are 3 main   stereotypes that might be the reasons behind the lack of interest of the youth in the agriculture sector : 

 1 ) Agriculture practitioners are all poor , uneducated and underprivileged .    2 ) Agriculture practitioners are just for the old .   3 ) Agriculture activities are physically demanding and boring . 

 Breaking down those attitudes brought to my attention that with most of the people interviewed and   observed , those stereotypes emerged mostly from our own representations of this sector : if I ask you to   design a marketing campaign to promote agriculture , what would be the first pitch ? In my community , the   answer has always been the same : photographs of an old man sweating and cultivating the soil , as an old   woman wearing teared clothes carries a ton of seeds over her head . It is all in the images we represent this   sector through . If however , we want the youth to be interested , then we need to show them the interesting   part of story . As an agriculture practitioner myself , I have experienced how agriculture can be fun ,   developmental , and a constructive hobby to a 23 - year - old educated girl like me . The challenge was to   relay this image of agriculture to an audience that have long believed otherwise . 

 Selection : 

 Since my goal has become to break those stereotypes , what calls for changing how this sector is seen by   the community , I have chosen visualization as a tool that would allow me to : 1 ) better communicate to the   young audience who is now immersed in a visual world , 2 ) avoid using words and long promotional   slogans that will turn off the readers , 3 ) allow space for dynamics . I needed to show , not tell . As we learnt   in this course , photography “ is a very rich way for us to understand the world ” and most importantly , in   context . And in order to trigger a new visual approach to agriculture I needed to break the pattern already   dominating in this sector . But what image can defy all 3 stereotypes at once ? 

 Application : 

 Aiming at changing mindset through visualization , I have chosen to change the scenery of agriculture   altogether and I have resorted to another hobby of mine , and combined the two in - reality - very - distant   domains , within the same frame . The subjects of the photoshoot will in fact be dancers : 1 ) dancers are   generally linked in our minds to youth , 2 ) dancers do not belong to any particular class and are not at all   seen as uneducated , 3 ) dance is all about life , energy and fun . 

 The result of this initiative was a set of pictures of young dancers practicing agriculture activities : a   ballerina wearing her tutu cropping apples on pointe , a salsero lifting a salsera to reach the top of the tree ,   a gymnast spreading the seeds through a grand ecart in midair . So instead of old tired poor man and   woman , we redesigned agriculture and assigned it to the young , educated , middle classed , and those   seeking fun and enjoyment in their activities . The outcome was a significant increase in youth   participation in the phase 2 of the program . 

 Insight and Approach : 

 This challenge that welcomed uncertainty and risk of a delicate goal that addressed perspectives and   mindsets , confirmed the belief we departed from : visualization is a powerful tool that can influence our   perspective on things . This exercise that followed the course , was a demonstration of the ability of design   thinking to create new paths in situations that have the regularity of a single approach . It has already been   emphasized in the course that visualization can be a tool throughout all the 4 phases of our projects , and   my exercise confirms the role of visualization that I look forward to adopt in my future missions .   Visualization , particularly when it follows strong assessment of the what is and a deep understanding of   the audience and context , is a valuable tool we have to influence and change . 


EMAIL: 
ID_NUM: 
NAME_STUDENT: 
PHONE_NUM: 
STREET_ADDRESS: 
URL_PERSONAL: 
USERNAME: 

### Task: You are a PII (Personal Identity Information) Detection. Given a essays written by students, you have to identify ONLY the following:
NAME_STUDENT - The full or partial name of a student that is not necessarily the author of the essay. This excludes instructors, authors, and other person names.
EMAIL - A student’s email address.
USERNAME - A student's username on any platform.
ID_NUM - A number or sequence of characters that could be used to identify a student, such as a student ID or a social security number.
PHONE_NUM - A phone number associated with a student.
URL_PERSONAL - A URL that might be used to identify a student.
STREET_ADDRESS - A full or partial street address that is associated with the student, such as their home address.
### Input: Reflection – Peer - Graded Assignment : 

 Redesigning the Youth ’s Perspectives on Agriculture 

 Challenge : 

 I work in the humanitarian sector at an organization that aims at reducing world hunger and promoting   food security through activities and interventions within the agriculture sector . While outreaching for   participants to one of our agriculture programs , we fell short on recruiting young participants ranging   between 18 and 23 years old . As we needed to meet our target , this was a challenge we had to overcome .   Studying the what is of the agriculture sector in our community , we realized that there are 3 main   stereotypes that might be the reasons behind the lack of interest of the youth in the agriculture sector : 

 1 ) Agriculture practitioners are all poor , uneducated and underprivileged .    2 ) Agriculture practitioners are just for the old .   3 ) Agriculture activities are physically demanding and boring . 

 Breaking down those attitudes brought to my attention that with most of the people interviewed and   observed , those stereotypes emerged mostly from our own representations of this sector : if I ask you to   design a marketing campaign to promote agriculture , what would be the first pitch ? In my community , the   answer has always been the same : photographs of an old man sweating and cultivating the soil , as an old   woman wearing teared clothes carries a ton of seeds over her head . It is all in the images we represent this   sector through . If however , we want the youth to be interested , then we need to show them the interesting   part of story . As an agriculture practitioner myself , I have experienced how agriculture can be fun ,   developmental , and a constructive hobby to a 23 - year - old educated girl like me . The challenge was to   relay this image of agriculture to an audience that have long believed otherwise . 

 Selection : 

 Since my goal has become to break those stereotypes , what calls for changing how this sector is seen by   the community , I have chosen visualization as a tool that would allow me to : 1 ) better communicate to the   young audience who is now immersed in a visual world , 2 ) avoid using words and long promotional   slogans that will turn off the readers , 3 ) allow space for dynamics . I needed to show , not tell . As we learnt   in this course , photography “ is a very rich way for us to understand the world ” and most importantly , in   context . And in order to trigger a new visual approach to agriculture I needed to break the pattern already   dominating in this sector . But what image can defy all 3 stereotypes at once ? 

 Application : 

 Aiming at changing mindset through visualization , I have chosen to change the scenery of agriculture   altogether and I have resorted to another hobby of mine , and combined the two in - reality - very - distant   domains , within the same frame . The subjects of the photoshoot will in fact be dancers : 1 ) dancers are   generally linked in our minds to youth , 2 ) dancers do not belong to any particular class and are not at all   seen as uneducated , 3 ) dance is all about life , energy and fun . 

 The result of this initiative was a set of pictures of young dancers practicing agriculture activities : a   ballerina wearing her tutu cropping apples on pointe , a salsero lifting a salsera to reach the top of the tree ,   a gymnast spreading the seeds through a grand ecart in midair . So instead of old tired poor man and   woman , we redesigned agriculture and assigned it to the young , educated , middle classed , and those   seeking fun and enjoyment in their activities . The outcome was a significant increase in youth   participation in the phase 2 of the program . 

 Insight and Approach : 

 This challenge that welcomed uncertainty and risk of a delicate goal that addressed perspectives and   mindsets , confirmed the belief we departed from : visualization is a powerful tool that can influence our   perspective on things . This exercise that followed the course , was a demonstration of the ability of design   thinking to create new paths in situations that have the regularity of a single approach . It has already been   emphasized in the course that visualization can be a tool throughout all the 4 phases of our projects , and   my exercise confirms the role of visualization that I look forward to adopt in my future missions .   Visualization , particularly when it follows strong assessment of the what is and a deep understanding of   the audience and context , is a valuable tool we have to influence and change .
### Output: 