OUGD505 // Design problem and solution

Our group received 'technology' as our area of interest.
To spark relevant issues, we visited the Guardian's 'technology' news section and identified some possible areas we could look into:

• privacy
• security
• drones
• driverless cars
• piracy
• glitch
• malware/virus
• space technology
• robots
• hacking

We came across an article about 'the right to be forgotten', meaning Google erasing certain searcch results to websites with information that is no longer relevant to people's lives, or offensive, or stopping them from getting a job.
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/19/google-acknowledges-some-people-want-right-to-be-forgotten

We then thought about the two arguments:

• do people have the right to access any information they want?
• do people have the right to be anonymous and private?

A solution depicting the right to free speech in this context would be:

A google doodle that is just a black box to show censorship in an obvious, visual form. 

It could maybe start off normal and flicker before turning black.

However we thought more about arguments, and found that delisting is only available in Europe, meaning we could pitch it to an American audience.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/09/29/solace-oblivion

In the article above it talks about a teenage girl who was decapitated in a car accident, and photographs from the scene were leaked onto the internet. Instances like this is where the right to be forgotten could be useful in America.

Solution

Use shock value through the internet by creating an interactive video that incorporates peoples details, much like the Lollipop app on facebook - http://www.takethislollipop.com/

Also, a poster campaign.