Day 8- new design ideas

Design 1- A waste disposal system that as you throw rubbish into the bin it separates into a recycling system underground that not only allows the wast to be recycled but turns food waste into compost available ready for use at the end of the tunnel, therefore people would not have to deal with the bad odor of compost bins

Design 2- Improved infrastructure for bike riding e.g. Bike bridges running over roads

Design 3- Solar charged mobile phones/ laptops etc

Roles:
Nikki- Business; Carson- Marketing; Stella- Researcher; Jaehee- Design

Futuristic fashion

Day 7- My poster speech

My 2030 scenario deals with the problems of mass consumption and counter urbanization.

“The move was for a relaxed lifestyle rather than the fast paced lifestyle in cities. The only issues are that we still want to be able to buy whatever we want when we want. The big empty land and mass of resources are great for achieving this.”

Our team consists of interior, visual communication and fashion designers who in this year 2030 will operate through a communicative and collaborative process.

Problems that this world are encountering include waste pollutions due to a lack of waste management strategies, high rates of energy consumption due to constant new technology consumption and their dependence on electricity and depletion of natural environments/ resources due to a want to have the same amenities as in the city.

The world became like this because the amenities in the city were still desired by people who wanted a more relaxed lifestyle. These individuals believe that there is no need to be concerned about sustainability because of the large spaces available and natural resources outside of the city. So therefore as they moved from the city to more rural areas they brought the attitude that because they are now in this new world the old problems are forgotten.

Society wise, these people have moved to a rural area and practically have been forced into a community mindset as this is how many close country towns run. The mass consuming persona will either take this as a good or bad thing and therefore the technologies they consume/ way they use their space will determine this, through, for example, delivery systems. Supercenters are the main type of retail distributors in this monopolized market.

The postal services may be used as a way to stay apart from people and in their own space just like people do in the city (using home service facilities). This could include each stage of the day having a different delivery person. For mass consumers they may have an annoying neighbor that keeps having stuff delivered, this could cause stress because its becoming just like in the cities.

In rural areas they may not have garbage collection regularly so to get their garbage taken away they need to wait weeks. This means that the house is dwarfed by waste. The people can even have sense of time determined by their garbage pile, they can determine how far along in the week it is by looking at how big the pile is.An example of the act of counter urbanisation was in the first three years of the 1970s America and the United Kingdom where the cities lost more than 1.1 million people to tree/sea/tee changes.

In broad terms the types of clients that we will be focusing on will be the people in this rural society that have no regard for sustainability or conservation. To be able to target a specialised market the new skills required by our team include market segmentation, market research and understanding the internal/ external environment. Through my research, products that our design team could offer clients would need to fix the issues that their carelessness has brought about. Examples of these include services such as educational seminars that arise the awareness of these issues or products that implement resource-consuming measures, for example a device that watches your water usage and tells you the time left you have for water use for this activity. These devices could become compulsorily so that the people who have no concern for this issue must abide by the system.

Design has more…

“Design has more to offer fiction at the moment than literature has to offer design”

-Bruce Sterling

More information on my quadrant

What has made your world like this? = The world became like this because the amenities in the city were still desired by people who wanted a more relaxed lifestyle. These individuals believe that there is no need to be concerned about sustainability because of the larger space and natural resources outside of the city.

Transporting goods= Transporting goods would be desired at a faster pace so air travel such as drones could be used in the future.

Social= Going to a rural area and practically being forced into a community environment. The mass consuming persona will either take this as a good or bad thing and therefore the technologies they consume/ way they use their space will determine this, through for example delivery systems.

Delivery systems= The postal services may be used as a way to stay apart from people and in their own space just like people do in the city (using home service facilities). This could include each stage of the day having a different delivery person. For mass consumers they may have an annoying neighbor that keeps having stuff delivered, this could cause stress just like in the cities.

Waste treatment = In rural areas they may not have garbage collection regularly so to get their garbage taken away they need to wait weeks. This means that the house is dwarfed by waste. The people can even have sense of time determined by their garbage pile, they can determine how far along in the week it is by looking at how big the pile is.

Day 4- Our quadrant graph test run

test

The Future of Urbanization Looks Mesmerizingly Bleak

http://gizmodo.com/5985765/the-future-of-urbanization-looks-mesmerizingly-bleak

Future Transport

Graph scenario: Not concerned with sustainability but moving away from urban areas

My name is Nikki. I have just moved from the city to a rural area with my partner. The reason we moved is because we wanted a more relaxed lifestyle than that of the fast paced lifestyle in cities. The only issues are that we still want to be able to buy whatever we want when we want. To make this easier we really enjoy going to the large supercentres/ mall so we can have all the options that they provide in the cities but all in the one place.

My typical day includes going to my job at the centre, buying any new gadgets in the stores and coming home to my 3-story house. The number of available jobs are rising due the fast pace construction of stores which is great, giving us heaps of different options. As manager of the malls visual merchandising unit, I’m hoping we can get the new larger than life holograms through the halls, they may waste electricity but they’re a great way to present the goods we offer. There is an area of bush land behind our house that we are hoping to get cut down as soon as possible so we can develop our dream pool now that we have all this free, unused land. While doing that we might also cut down a few trees in the back yard and install an artificial garden so that we don’t have to deal with the falling leaves and can select the colour scheme that fits in with our décor.

In my pastime I enjoy keeping in contact with family and friends using Skype and email. I value these calls because we are too far to see each other regularly. Sometimes I like to do the grocery shopping on my kitchen screen so it can be flight-delivered straight to my door but recently I’ve noticed a slight increase in prices

Day Four

Lecture: Quadrant graphs

You are looking at the mirror worlds to categorise different info, compare and analyse for idea generation. It’s a form of worldbuilding= consider location, PESTL factors, prominent local individuals and relationships.

Design fiction= fiction and drama, testing the future to see what technologies work, will be received and their impact -> reveal current attitudes/ prejudices/ behaviour. Blax box ideas are those that are not completely realistic.

Representing behaviours= stories of what people will do in these environments

Video reference: 

Don Norman on the Design of Future Things, April 2008 http://vimeo.com/5001387

 –       An example he used to describe non tangible aspects of design= lines at Disney are important, they are a design issue, you can make then more enjoyable…peoples perceptions are wrong, they think they wait longer than usual they use design to make you think you waited less than you did. As well as in McDonalds, where you don’t realize the drive around the building is a delaying tactic for them to make the food- the line is important.

–       In service design you have the employee and the customer (satisfaction/retention). Forget about efficiency and optimization and focus on it being a better experience

–       Apple didn’t invent they exploited (touch screen, database system), they used DRM which means when you buy it your stuck, you cant use it with any random devices so when you get it you have to get accessories specific to it. Compnies have to pay apple 10% of their sales to use their apple certified logo.

–       Front stage- customers Back stage= background

–       Importance of user observation. Quadrant Graphs can be used as a tool for understanding (and designing for) future scenarios – i.e: as a means of asking where we want to go and how might we get there (by design)

Drivers of change and research:

• Our definite drivers of change- Mass consumption vs ethical consumption and urbanization vs counter urbanization

• Our sources- Evidence of real life situations of mass consumption and urbanization, for example inner-west Australian areas going through the production of supercenters and attractions. China is also a huge example with fold away houses/ apartments:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-iFJ3ncIDo

Understanding your design team

Our team consists of interior, visual communication and fashion designers who in this year 2030 will operate through a communicative and collaborative process.

In broad terms the types of clients that we will be focusing on will be the people in this rural society that have no regard for sustainability or conservation. To be able to target a specialised market the new skills required by our team include market segmentation, market research and understanding the internal/ external environment. Through my research, products that our design team could offer clients would need to fix the issues that their carelessness has brought about. Examples of these include services such as educational seminars that arise the awareness of these issues or products that implement resource-consuming measures, for example a device that watches your water usage and tells you the time left you have for water use for this activity. These devices could become compulsorily so that the people who have no concern for this issue must abide by the system.