The Whole House Reuse

Here a link to the whole House Reuse project associated with the Rekindle movement in Christchurch.  Check out the videos.

Whole House Reuse, a project facilitated by Rekindle and supported by SIFT has been created to make explicit the scale and breadth of materials of one modest home in order to deliver a broader understanding of the waste occurring as a result of demolition in Christchurch and throughout the country, and to provoke problem solving and innovation around future uses for materials currently being treated as waste.

A Headdress Ban Disqualified Qatar’s Entire Women’s Basketball Team from International Competition

A good example of occupational discrimination found by Hilary.  Here's the link

http://magazine.good.is/articles/headdress-ban-basketball?utm_source=thedailygood&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dailygood

 

Who knows about Pintrest

Pinterest is a company that provides an Internet service that they describe as a visual discovery tool. People use Pinterest to collect ideas for projects and interests. Users create and share collections (called “boards”) of visual bookmarks (called “Pins”) that they use to do things like plan trips, develop projects, organize events or save articles, craft instruction and recipes.

Here's the link if you want to explore

Pintrest

The Arts Catalyst

An example of occupational deprivation, following the privatization of railways in Mexico in 1995 – leading to closure of passenger trains and the social effects thereof.

A rather cool piece of research

 

The Arts Catalyst

Living with disability 'Inspiring' or 'Everyday'?

I think these are two wonderful and very funny TED talks on attitudes towards disability.  I'd encourage students to have a look and share your thoughts.

Stella Young: I'm not your inspiration, thank you very much

Maysoon Zayid: I got 99 problems... palsy is just one of them 

On Living with less stuff

On Living with Less Stuff

Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus - aka The Minimalists - are a pair of best friends who grew up poor in Dayton, Ohio. They were working in unfulfilling six-figure corporate careers at age 30 when they shed most of their belongings and started a popular blog about embracing simplicity.
They have since become some of the country's leading evangelists on the virtues of living with less. The friends, now 32, are currently on a 100-city tour to promote Everything That Remains, an earnest self-published memoir written by Millburn with footnotes by Nicodemus that attempts to recount their change of course and serves as a primer for those curious about what it means to be a modern minimalist.
Here they share an adapted excerpt from the book in which Millburn reminisces about how his lifestyle transformation began at home, by figuring out what to do with all of his stuff ... 

What do OT's do?

Here's a clip from Radio NZ 2012 that looks at what OT's from an outsiders perspective.  This was from the One in Five program where one of their reporters attended the NZ OT conference.

 

Here's an article from stuff on the move to standing and walking desks in the workplace.  Nice example of environmental adaptation to increase health and productivity.

Standing desks sit well with employees

And a recent podcast from Radio NZ



 

Active Aging

The following article links with our discussion about perceptions of aging and OTs role in promoting and helping to facilitate active aging.

Wilcock, A. A. (2007). Active ageing: Dream or reality? New Zealand Journal of Occupational Therapy, 54(1), 15-20

Below are a number of video Dunedin students found when we started discussing issues around deprivation, assistive technology, inclusive design and stereotypes towards aging and disability.

Rudimental - Waiting All Night feat. Ella Eyre (Official Video)

Spectacular Salsa - Paddy & Nico - Electric Ballroom | Britain's Got Tal...

i-design: inclusive design in action

'Terminator' arm is world's most advanced prosthetic limb

Old Man In Nursing Home Reacts To Hearing Music From His Era

Inclusive design

We discussed inclusive design in our environments/communal  places in the lecture.  The following Slideshare introduces the goals of universal design. 

Universal Design: The Seven Principles from Scott Rains

There are also a number of good websites on the topic....

Inclusive Design Tool Kit

Wikipedia explanation

... as well as a good text which can be found in the Robertson Library (not sure if this is in Hamilton).  These resources may be useful when we look at the components related to assistive technology and place.

Steinfeld, E., & Maisel, M. (2012). Universal design; Creating inclusive environments. John Wiley & Sons: NJ


 

Evaluating web content and being a self editor

We talked about this in class a few weeks ago.  How do you assess the reliability of web content?  The following two sites provide nice guides to evaluating web content

Finding information on the internet a tutorial

Finding and evaluating online resources on complementary health approaches



 

Jared Diamond: How societies can grow old better

There's an irony behind the latest efforts to extend human life: It's no picnic to be an old person in a youth-oriented society. Older people can become isolated, lacking meaningful work and low on funds. In this intriguing talk, Jared Diamond looks at how many different societies treat their elders — some better, some worse — and suggests we all take advantage of experience.

Sue Austin: Deep sea diving ... in a wheelchair

When Sue Austin got a power chair 16 years ago, she felt a tremendous sense of freedom -- yet others looked at her as though she had lost something. In her art, she aims to convey the spirit of wonder she feels wheeling through the world. Includes thrilling footage of an underwater wheelchair that lets her explore ocean beds, drifting through schools of fish, floating free in 360 degrees.

BBC Click Accessibility

This video looks at inclusive design and accessibility of websites.  Have a look.

The Coffin Club

http://tvnz.co.nz/close-up/diy-building-your-own-coffin-video-3582936

This is a short clip about the coffin club we talked about in the lecture in Dunedin.  A definite example of 'occupational therapy'

The human scale of tiny homes & McMansions as fad

The tiny house movement.  Humans adaptation to the limits of space.

The Human Scale - Official Trailer

This is the trailer for the film we'll watch in class