Blog Post 1
In the two week period that all of the lectures took place, I attended a couple live streams or I tried to go back and watch the replay as opposed to physically attending the lectures. I found that it was easier for me to watch the lectures online as it gave me the ability to pause and play the video as I saw fit so that I could take my time in writing notes and to make them as informational as possible. Another aspect that I greatly appreciated from the online versions was the time the lecturers took to address the questions from students online as opposed to only addressing the questions of those physically present at the time. I also found it very useful that the lectures were recorded for us to watch at a later time, for those that wanted to watch specific ones but were not able to due to clashing schedules or other reasons and just the overall idea of being able to watch it online.
All the lectures I watched were interesting in their own way and I was able to learn a lot and gain a lot of new information or just opened my eyes to a brand new perspective. That being said, I personally feel like not all of them were directly relevant to the course that I am doing (HMUPP), or not as relevant to me as it might be to others so I felt somewhat drained when listening to a number of the lectures.
In particular, I really enjoyed lecture 9. Jekaterina Rogaten and Ameerah Khadaroo talked about Well-being and how it may be different and unique to everybody. I’ve studied Psychology in the past because I find the way the human mind works to be intriguing; so I was really invested when Dr. Rogaten also touched upon the idea that well-being is different in different fields as well and she asked the students to consider Wellbeing from a psychological perspective. Your well-being can be affected by a lot of things such as emotion, health, social situation, economy or financial status (to name a few). I think this subject is important due to the fact that it is important for everyone to take care of themselves.
I can see the impact fashion could have on the human psyche; as this by far the generation that spends the most time on looks and being judged, be it through the amount of likes/ comments on social media, comments from family and friends, or even by the way an individual perceives themselves. The constant exposure to “trends” and being told what the “ideal body type” -no matter how ridiculous or unrealistic it might be- or to constantly look perfect due to altered image can often have a bad impact on a more insecure individual.
More representation and diversity in the fashion community and embracing these differences (any maybe even focusing on or enhance them), could impact the audience much better by more people feeling included and would therefore have a more positive effect on the general population.