Thomas...
Not a criticism, but a suggestion to extend your efforts and hard work...(I have a personal and professional stake in your selected choice of video subject)
Your stated goal in producing the video was to change the blame culture surrounding disaster. You went on to outline in the video animation, two approaches to understanding how the series of events that unfolded and created the horrible outcome that was the Sewol disaster. In your conclusion you stressed a method of understanding disaster that moved away from blaming individuals to a more comprehensive social, political and social systems analysis of the disaster in order to make changes to prevent future disasters.
Some design scholars might say you have done a fine job of sweeping up after the parade. More understanding of the bigger picture in any design problem is indeed a way to address more potential variables upfront. However, I'm left without any real tangible insights from you into how I might apply this broader approach to any future design problems. Your video's message is, "don't blame individuals and their responsibilities in the scenario, but look to the larger systems those individuals are members of to find clues to designing future systems that avoid disaster." Ok....how do I do that?
My specific question to you is... For example, how does this approach to disaster analysis help me design a new tourist experience that includes a marina, water transportation and hotel accommodation in an all inclusive systems experience? The reason I ask is that is exactly the design problem I have been working on for the past few years in Korea and have been looking at the Sewol disaster in detail to find guidance for future developments of this very complex project.
My suggestion to help take your your aims further is, you need to demonstrate (using 3D animation) how your insights into future disaster problems could possibly help designers, policy makers and other people involved in safety related decision making roles in order for your efforts to have value in the marketplace of ideas. Using the same communication method of 3D animation and the same Sewol disaster case study, run it through your algorithm of economic, social and political analysis to generate a set of useful design guides that would be helpful to those involved in such complex systems design problems. You have identified a new approach, now demonstrate to us how to possibly use and apply this new set of insights.
Merely suggesting an alternative approach to problem identifying/solving without applying it in a conceptual format (i.e speculation) is not very helpful to those who might benefit from your insights. You've only done half the work necessary to make your insights useful to others. The blame game is so easy to fall back on because it has a well worn historical path and a lot of case studies to start from. Show us in detail how your insights might effect positive change in the future of designing complex systems and then we can see how we can apply them to our own projects to make them safer for those to experience.
You are onto something here...I am very interested in applying the work of design scholars into my own professional design project and academic work.
Stephen Bourgogne Allard
Seoul, South Korea
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