Carinne Urrutia BFA Communication Design Thesis Spring 2015
Dunce Pride
Dunce Pride provides a better understanding of how individuals with dyslexic minds experience life, are socially effected, the unique capacity of their minds, and the successes they can achieve. Dunce Pride is a body of work which is geared towards spreading awareness and changing the perceptive of dyslexia with American culture, ultimately striving to create change using unique and immersive strategies.
Advantages Wall, interactive printed media which have pull tabs and rotatable pieces which share various strengths and advantages of having a dyslexic brain.
Achiever Cones, lists of names of various successful people who are dyslexic and have achieved great things.
Detail of Lists of Achievers and the Dunce pride informational booklet
Experience & Stigma Wall detail, interior detail shot of the experience wall.
Stigma Wall, Words and Phrases taken from interviews about how people made individuals with dyslexia feel and how those individuals feel about themselves.
Dunce Pride: Experience Animation, showing the dyslexic experience and how information is interpreted.
Experience & Stigma
An image of Carinne Urrutia speaking at her thesis oral defense.
Items that individuals who enter the space will be given. Dunce Caps, Buttons, and an Informational Pamphlet with facts about each wall of the exhibition, Experience, Stigma, Advantages, and Achievers.
