Activity 3 — Inspiration Board and Ethics Check

Time: about 60 minutes. Submit: the board as a file, PDF, photo or link, plus written text. 

Part A — Build the board. Gather 10–15 items connected to your issue: images, screenshots, photographs of objects, links, lyrics, a photo of something on a wall at home. Deliberately spread them across at least five of the eleven source categories from the lesson — if everything comes from social media, the exercise has not worked. 

Every item needs one line: what it is, where it is from, and why it caught you. Items without that line do not count — the "why" is what makes the board usable later. 

Part B — Sort it. Three columns: 

• Authentic to my issue — material that genuinely belongs with this cause. 
• What I would avoid — clichés, exhausted imagery, anything failing the three tests, anything restricted. 
• What I could reinterpret — material to transform rather than reproduce. 

Part C — Ethics check. Take the item you are most drawn to and run all three tests on it — attribution, benefit, conversation. Write your honest answer to each. If any answer is "I do not know", say what you would need to find out and who you would need to ask.