#narrowing focus

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narrow focus

under the winter sky bare branched trees stand in rows black crow caws —– Carpe Diem writing Techniques # 25 – Narrowing Focus http://chevrefeuillescarpediem.blogspt.com

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Narrowing Focus

My response to Carpe Diem Haiku Writing Techniques #25 The Technique of Narrowing Focus

  Crowded winter copse

lattice of leaveless branches

one sturdy trunk

  © Kim M. Russell, 2015

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Global Marine Issues

This is a table of all the desk research I conducted into Global Marine issues. The top layer lists the ways in which these problems affect the environment. The bottom layer lists how these environmental problems may affect humans. 

While these issues are all extremely interesting to me, I wanted to taper the focus by understanding how a global problem may effect western, well -off countries such as Denmark. Below is a list of the three I chose. 

1. Micro - plastics - this is already a global problem, which is not known about on the scale as the plastic gyres or global warming. How do Micro-plastics affect life in Copenhagen? What affects may they have on our futures? 

2. Industrial Sea Scape - As a result of climate change Copenhagen will become a warmer, more humid, country. There have been discussions about how Copenhageners may get a different source of protein in the form of seaweed. Imagine, a seascape which includes farms of seaweed, fish farms, and more. How would the relationship people have to the sea change? What kind of tools may one need to farm seaweed? 

3. Sea Level Rise - Sea level rise will have a drastic impact on climate in Copenhagen. Systematic changes are being handled by the Danish Government in a 20 year official plan with predictions into 2100. However, what will change for the city dweller? How may people adapt to living in a city with severe rainfall on a regular basis? How may people's relationship to rain change in the future? 

Out of these I further narrowed once more to focus on primarily on Micro-plastics. I chose this direction because it doesn't involve as much fantasy as the other two - although that was part of the appeal - it will be interesting to design a process around a global problem that exists here and now.