1)For your project's visuals, marketing, & online presence, how can you best incorporate the idea

of "co-
creation"?

I think the best way we could incorporate the idea of “co-creation” is by continuing to foster dialogue
but making sure to not come in with a preset agenda and letting the dialogue flow naturally. I think it
would also be great if we created common goals and principles with the people that attend our weekly
meetings. I think we are already on the path of being centered around healing and safety and I think
adding trauma-informed practices. I think sharing information on trauma-informed practices and making
sure we are implementing them would make our visuals, marketing, and online presence a safer and
more welcoming feeling.

2)If you use the co-creation wheel developed by MIT's Co-Creation Studio, describe what categories
intersect in your advocacy project and how.

I think social & community, specifically social movements, and social sciences. There are many social
movements happening on Instagram and other social media applications. Sharing people’s experiences
with mental health is something that has started to “become a trend” (this phrase has a bad
connotation, but I think in this case it’s a really good thing that’s gained momentum). We are trying to
carry that momentum onto John Carroll’s campus because while there are lots of effort from faculty and
staff, but I think that having a student led attempt can be more relatable to people that are typically
reluctant.

3)Since a component of your project undoubtedly will be online, describe how your project fits with
areas 2, 4 & 5 on p. 122. If it doesn't, how can you improve/add to what you already have?

Educate the people — and ourselves: Foster digital and cultural literacy and Combat algorithmic bias —
preemptively. We attempt to preemptively combat algorithmic bias on Instagram by each of us, on our
personal accounts, by saving the post, which carries a better weight in the algorithm, we also like and
share the post on our stories and send it to other people and ask them to save the post too. We try to
always share that information with other accounts that could benefit from it too.

Commit to creating more humane media: Design for justice, well-being, and prosperity and Prepare for
unintended consequences.

When I design things for our Instagram, I always try to design from a place of safety and well-being for
others, I ask other stakeholders that might have a reaction and feeling about it if they have any edits or
suggestions for change before I post it. I think that I should start sharing resources for people if they feel
they need any, like the counseling center.

Collaborate to think bigger: Create new forms of public media and Build better worlds together.

I am always trying to create new forms of public media and share my resources with others so they can
benefit too.

4)How does this complement or echo what our guest speaker talked about? Connect one of her ideas to
your project.

While we haven’t had Reyna Grande come and speak to us yet I am looking forward to hearing what she
has to say. I think her unique way of sharing the experiences of many “hidden” people’s stories. I think
sharing people’s stories is beyond important because like every snowflake, every person’s story is
different, unique, and deserves to be told. The more we hear different stories the more we remember
and understand the world.