John Longchamps

Denise DeLuca

Biomimetic Design

MCAD | Summer 2015

Assignment 5.2b - Identifying Functions

Design Challenge

What is the Design

Intended to Do?

Functions

Support youth

employment and

career

development.

I. Establish a context-adaptive agile framework to support

national youth employment and

career development in the United

States through local modes of

implementation that:

1. Respects the diversity of national situations to

develop practical

frameworks that span

across sectors, are

context-specific, and

engage a comprehensive

range of stakeholders

2. Prepares groups of vulnerable young people

including

low-income youth and young

women for entry into the

labor market.

3. Enters this group of vulnerable young people

into the labor market.

4. Retains this group of vulnerable young people in

the labor market.

5. Assesses and provide recommendations for

graduate unemployment

policy integration into

higher level framework

architecture.

6. Assesses and provides recommendations of

national labor market

needs.

7. Supports entrepreneurship education for

disenfranchised youth.

8. Empowers vulnerable young

people to apply their

creativity and ability.

1. Long-term systemic

sustainability

through leveraging

diverse, locally

attuned

functionality and

response.

2. Incubation of youth skills.

3. Incubation of youth mental

health.

4. Integration of traditionally

isolated groups of

youth into various

tiers of the labor

market.

5. Assessment of the environmental

conditions of the

graduate un- and

under- employment.

6. Assessment of the environmental

conditions of

national labor

market needs.

7. Nurturing and growth of

entrepreneurial

skills in

disenfranchised

youth.

8. Growth of skill and executive

function within

the minds of

vulnerable youth.