Senior Project
About Me
I am a senior at Principia Upper School and am from Marin County, California. I have always had a passion for art, interior design, and poetry. I have taken online courses for interior design, and want to study interior design in college. I have always loved house hunting, homes, furniture, decor, and anything to do with the style of houses, inside and out, and I have been writing poetry and doing art for as long as I can remember.
The Problem
The “problem” I am considering for my senior project is how interior spaces can impact people dramatically and how many people don’t have the access or resources to live somewhere that is aesthetically pleasing, somewhere that makes them happy, or somewhere at all. Personal environments can impact people's lives and the way they feel significantly. This problem manifests locally where I live in the Bay Area because there are many people that need help organizing or creating an inspiring, improved space where they live, as well as people who have no place to live at all. I want to volunteer at a non-profit organization that helps people in need to rebuild/design homes such as Habitat for Humanity, or an organization that helps with the major homeless problem in my town. I also want to design and create homemade greeting cards that I can sell and donate to the non-profits that I will be volunteering at.
Plan
For my senior project, I want to incorporate all three of my hobbies and passions by publishing a book full of the many poems I have written and illustrate each one. I want to create many different chapters within the book, each with its own topic. I want to incorporate my love for interior design into the book by making a chapter dedicated to interior design as well as the community service that I will be doing.
