envision

exspress

Concept Development

writing



This studio is about making food to talk about some sort of geo-political issue.

Our project brings awareness to one of the first Cambodian donut entrepreneurs and the history of Cambodia and Cambodian-American immigration through noum kong. We intend to do this via the lens of America and focus on immigration policies and Henry Kissinger's actions during the Vietnam War. we also intend to cover one of the biggest success stories for Cambodian immigrants, Ted Ngoy. This topic is important because of how Henry Kissinger is often glorified and how Americans tend to focus on their losses in the Vietnam War.

I i think improved at envisioning I have gotten better at picturing how something could connect to something else. at the beginning of the studio, I was unsure about how I would connect food to more broad geopolitical issues but I feel like I understand it better now, and not only for my project. for writing, I feel like I improved my flow while writing, the transitions in my pamphlet were smother than in some of the other things I have written. and I also learned what active writing meant and how it can be better at more clearly demonstrating what was done. exspress goes a bit hand in hand with writing and I feel pretty good about how well I expressed the idea I was going for during the presentations people didn't have many questions and during most of my other presentations, there are usually more. for concept development, I think I've gotten better at decreasing my scope to something more feasible. because in the past I've had a lot of trouble with scope and I've tried to accomplish way too much in not nearly enough time I struggled with this at the beginning when I wanted to make the noum kong more complicated so that the connection would be more clear. after some research, we decided that it was good how it was and if I wanted to add some sort of extra layer of complication tactfully I would have to spend a lot more time than we had to research and we transitioned from the food to the issues we wanted to address well in the end.