My Reflection – Storytelling 

 Challenge & Selection 

 I find storytelling to be a very compelling tool for many situations which require design thinking . As   an architecture student , I often find myself facing a variety of problems in design briefs , ranging   from personal preferences to geographical differences and even environmental concerns . I spend a   lot of time concerning myself with the story of a place . I am concerned with how people interact   inside a space , and how the space , in turn , interacts with other spaces around it . In design   competitions and other situations where I am designing for clients , I often have discussions with   them at length , or survey groups that belong to a particular target group that I ’m designing for ( e.g.   young professionals , young families , college - age students , etc . ) in order to understand their   background and their wants and needs . I therefore find that storytelling is very appropriate as a   selection for my design challenge . 

 Application 

 When we are working on group projects or working together towards a design competition , we do a   lot of discussion . We may design individually , but then we come together and we analyse the spaces .   Especially when different people are assigned the design of different areas of a space ( e.g. I get the   bedroom , my teammates work on the bathroom , living room , and kitchen in a house respectively ) ,   we like to talk about how the potential or future inhabitants may use the space . We tell stories ,   about how a person might move from one space to another , and how they will inhabit it . We want   to make sure that there is a logical flow to the layout and it is a comfortable place to live , designed   intentionally for certain types of use . Suppose my team and I are designing a suburban house in a   well - to - do , middle - class , up - and - coming neighbourhood . Then we might tell a story about a   potential client is a family with a high school student who is a competitive swimmer who comes   home in the afternoon and practices in the pool in his backyard , and plant trees and place the pool   in an appropriate location relative to the site so that it is in the shaded during the afternoons . 

 Insight & Approach 

 Applying the storytelling tool to my thinking was very helpful for me , because it forces me to not just   focus on the aesthetics or what my personal opinion of a space is , but rather , encourages me to   think about additional considerations that some other people with a different way of life as mine   might think or feel or act when encountered with such a space . This helped me a lot with personal   projects when I was designing things , and so we had a conversation about this as a group during one   of the meetings when we were working on a submission for an architectural design competition .   And it really helped foster a lot of creativity and innovation . I think as far as approaching things   differently , my only issue would be not getting too caught up in the crazy , or inventive stories , and   really focusing on the real , mainstream ones that seem reasonably appropriate for the situation . 


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: My Reflection – Storytelling 

 Challenge & Selection 

 I find storytelling to be a very compelling tool for many situations which require design thinking . As   an architecture student , I often find myself facing a variety of problems in design briefs , ranging   from personal preferences to geographical differences and even environmental concerns . I spend a   lot of time concerning myself with the story of a place . I am concerned with how people interact   inside a space , and how the space , in turn , interacts with other spaces around it . In design   competitions and other situations where I am designing for clients , I often have discussions with   them at length , or survey groups that belong to a particular target group that I ’m designing for ( e.g.   young professionals , young families , college - age students , etc . ) in order to understand their   background and their wants and needs . I therefore find that storytelling is very appropriate as a   selection for my design challenge . 

 Application 

 When we are working on group projects or working together towards a design competition , we do a   lot of discussion . We may design individually , but then we come together and we analyse the spaces .   Especially when different people are assigned the design of different areas of a space ( e.g. I get the   bedroom , my teammates work on the bathroom , living room , and kitchen in a house respectively ) ,   we like to talk about how the potential or future inhabitants may use the space . We tell stories ,   about how a person might move from one space to another , and how they will inhabit it . We want   to make sure that there is a logical flow to the layout and it is a comfortable place to live , designed   intentionally for certain types of use . Suppose my team and I are designing a suburban house in a   well - to - do , middle - class , up - and - coming neighbourhood . Then we might tell a story about a   potential client is a family with a high school student who is a competitive swimmer who comes   home in the afternoon and practices in the pool in his backyard , and plant trees and place the pool   in an appropriate location relative to the site so that it is in the shaded during the afternoons . 

 Insight & Approach 

 Applying the storytelling tool to my thinking was very helpful for me , because it forces me to not just   focus on the aesthetics or what my personal opinion of a space is , but rather , encourages me to   think about additional considerations that some other people with a different way of life as mine   might think or feel or act when encountered with such a space . This helped me a lot with personal   projects when I was designing things , and so we had a conversation about this as a group during one   of the meetings when we were working on a submission for an architectural design competition .   And it really helped foster a lot of creativity and innovation . I think as far as approaching things   differently , my only issue would be not getting too caught up in the crazy , or inventive stories , and   really focusing on the real , mainstream ones that seem reasonably appropriate for the situation .
### Output: 