Week 3 - Investigate Stage

This week our group met and decided to discuss how our research developed our ideas on our chosen subject.

Photos

• People were in small groups five people at most
• More people on smart phones than socialising
•  Social areas – courtyard, cafes.
• More comfortable seating areas would be nice
• Shelter in open spaces

Interview

• People didn’t have any idea of school spirit
• People aren’t here to socialise
• Want to socialise but have minimal opportunity
• People don’t make friends within classes, everyone becomes acquaintances

Solutions

• Encouragement from Uni to become more involved – better from AUSM (o week was shit
• More information regarding what is available
• Better student life at the Vespbar (quiz night, social events, cheap Tuesdays, give away tickets, Zoo section for students at recreational centres)
• More sporting options available for social fun teams
• Join schools together more

Ideas for Interview

What are you studying?

Are you interested in out of Uni activities?

What is your idea of Student Life/ Culture?

Do you feel like AUT has a culture?

Does it Concern you?

What does school Spirit at AUT mean to you?

Are you part of any extracurricular activities?

How would you improve School Spirit?

How would you Improve Vesbar?

Do we need better advertising?

How would redesign the Plaza?

What would be more appealing to you?

Our Idea falls within the top two piers of Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs, Morality, Creativity, Actualisation, Respect, Confidence and Self Esteem, Confidence and Respect.

We were trying do discuss an idea for improving school spirit when it hit us that you really can't design a solution that will effectively cure lack of school spirit. For this we looked into AUSM who were really endeavouring to create school spirit through events, the problem was that no one was interested, students at AUT aren't interested in the idea of a student life, rather going to uni and getting there degree and going home. So we then decided to work on the idea of community rather than school spirit itself.

Ideas we came up with:

Community

·      Joining all the faculties together

·      Inter joining all the buildings

·      Re designing the plaza

·      Eating places

·      Redesigning the Vesbar (student bar)

VESBAR

·      Promotions/advertising

·      Visibility

·      Prices – extra cheap for AUT Students

·      Compare Vesbar (Student Bar) prices to Bars

·      Inclusive of students

These were some of the ideas we discussed more to come soon! :)