The latest group meeting was quite effective. Ulla’s clinic will be on next week and we need to prepare the project proposal and to make plans for the workshop. The last class discussion with our course mates made it clear that people are more concerned about how nanomaterials are affecting them. So we decided to change our focus from nanomaterials in aquatic systems to the effects of nanomaterials on living environment and the possible health impacts. In this way we have a better opportunity to reach our target group, consumers, who are more interested in things that maybe cause some health effects. Decision makers and the industry using nanomaterials are still in our target in a way. If we can increase the knowledge of consumers of nanomaterials, we can indirectly achieve changes in opinions and actions in these two groups too, industry and legislators. Now it seems that development of the nanomaterials are going faster that studies related to environment and health.
How to bring this information to consumers? We made a list of communication tools, where different medias where strongly present. It was fun to play with ideas making a video clip for a TV or a newspaper article for the biggest newspaper in Finland. We also recognised that our technical skills are not very broad and we might need some help from outside. However what the end of this project is going to be it’s still a big learning process for all of us like one member of our group reminded.
The frames of our workshop are also ready but we still need to discuss about the details. Personally I felt quite hard to combine our lecture subject “participatory methods” and our project subject. How we can take advantage of the workshop and make good use of the results we get? But it’s the best part of the team working, when your own mind is empty there is always someone who supports you and gives some great ideas you can start to develop further.
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