Monday, April 16, 2007
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Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Mr. Magic Man
You know Rocky, the guy who boxes? Cool. Now think about Mr. Wolf in “Pulp Fiction”. The guy walks literally into problems and fixes them, now if you take the nature of his problems away; basically Mr. Wolf is the best KaosPilot I have seen in action ever.
Today we had a visit of Mr. Wolf, disguised as Peter McLeod. It was great to have a person coming into our project for a brief moment with new eyes, and another approach to how we could solve our task.
After Mr. Magic man, as we prefer to call Peter, went, the energy level in the room elevated to an insane level. Papers were filled with drawings and words, sheet came up on the level, and all the computers went nuts because of the typing. Work outcome of the day has been crazy!!
Other mentionable things today, are the heating system in our room. Since we moved in, the heating system has not been our best friend, it has frozen us out. But today the saga took an unexpected turn; the heating system became our best friend, and decided to heat the relation up some notches. So instead for the usual complains about how cold we were, today we sang Nelly’s famous song; “It’s getting hot in here”. Which kind of not only fitted the temperature in the room in Celsius but also our work production!
Today we had a visit of Mr. Wolf, disguised as Peter McLeod. It was great to have a person coming into our project for a brief moment with new eyes, and another approach to how we could solve our task.
After Mr. Magic man, as we prefer to call Peter, went, the energy level in the room elevated to an insane level. Papers were filled with drawings and words, sheet came up on the level, and all the computers went nuts because of the typing. Work outcome of the day has been crazy!!
Other mentionable things today, are the heating system in our room. Since we moved in, the heating system has not been our best friend, it has frozen us out. But today the saga took an unexpected turn; the heating system became our best friend, and decided to heat the relation up some notches. So instead for the usual complains about how cold we were, today we sang Nelly’s famous song; “It’s getting hot in here”. Which kind of not only fitted the temperature in the room in Celsius but also our work production!
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Moving forward
Starting this morning we had a lot of funny, useful and some not useful ideas to take further. I was very useful for us to bring in new brains with new mindset and see what they would come up with. A lot that is!
We needed to narrow it down to approximately 6-8 more concrete ideas that we wish to develop more on.
Our contact person Ruben has found a designer who is a very good artist, and she has taken the task of drawing and visualizing the different ideas we have so far.
The booklet presenting our first research phase and first ideas are to be done for Thursday latest.
Monday March 26 Ruben will use this booklet and the drawings of the ideas, when he is presenting our work to Industrial Canada for the first time. They will give their feedback and this will hopefully give us something to develop further.
We needed to narrow it down to approximately 6-8 more concrete ideas that we wish to develop more on.
Our contact person Ruben has found a designer who is a very good artist, and she has taken the task of drawing and visualizing the different ideas we have so far.
The booklet presenting our first research phase and first ideas are to be done for Thursday latest.
Monday March 26 Ruben will use this booklet and the drawings of the ideas, when he is presenting our work to Industrial Canada for the first time. They will give their feedback and this will hopefully give us something to develop further.
Paper Are Better Than Plastic, Right?
Neither. They're roughly equal in pros and cons. While convenient addictions, they both gobble up natural resources and cause significant pollution. So those famous enviromental materials you have heard about, might not be as sustainble as you frist thought.
Reporting from the material jungle.
Searching for different material to use for our reusable food ware I have read many articles about which material that is most sustainable. That question seems to be much harder to answer then I thought. We had decided to use cradle-to-cradle design. Quoting from one if my earlier blogs.
”We have discovered the new way of product and package design, called cradle-to-cradle design (instead of traditional cradle-to-grave design). Cradle to cradle is about remaking the way we make things and it means literally designing waste right out of the lifecycle of the package. Mimicking nature, a package is designed to be either a technical nutrient that can be reused, or truly recycled in a tight, closed-loop process with zero loss in material performance, or a biological nutrient that can safely break down into the soil. One idea is that we create reusable food ware out of Corn, potato or soy bean plastic which is biodegradable.”
Know I have heard that corn plastic is not that green as we first thought, because of both the genetic modification and because of pesticides they use when growing them. Problems, problems, and how hard can it be to get a hold of some good old sustainable material? Okay, so what about Cellulose (plant fiber)? I have heard that in a recent test between bio plastics made from cellulose, corn, and starch (potatoes), that the cellulose products had fewer greenhouse gas emissions in their production, is that true? I search the web for answers and yes it is true, but the same problem still exist, it’s all genetically modified. So can we choose the right material without being hypocrites? Is their such a thing as the perfect material?
Reporting from the material jungle.
Searching for different material to use for our reusable food ware I have read many articles about which material that is most sustainable. That question seems to be much harder to answer then I thought. We had decided to use cradle-to-cradle design. Quoting from one if my earlier blogs.
”We have discovered the new way of product and package design, called cradle-to-cradle design (instead of traditional cradle-to-grave design). Cradle to cradle is about remaking the way we make things and it means literally designing waste right out of the lifecycle of the package. Mimicking nature, a package is designed to be either a technical nutrient that can be reused, or truly recycled in a tight, closed-loop process with zero loss in material performance, or a biological nutrient that can safely break down into the soil. One idea is that we create reusable food ware out of Corn, potato or soy bean plastic which is biodegradable.”
Know I have heard that corn plastic is not that green as we first thought, because of both the genetic modification and because of pesticides they use when growing them. Problems, problems, and how hard can it be to get a hold of some good old sustainable material? Okay, so what about Cellulose (plant fiber)? I have heard that in a recent test between bio plastics made from cellulose, corn, and starch (potatoes), that the cellulose products had fewer greenhouse gas emissions in their production, is that true? I search the web for answers and yes it is true, but the same problem still exist, it’s all genetically modified. So can we choose the right material without being hypocrites? Is their such a thing as the perfect material?
A Sudden Clever Idea
Yesterday we had our first "big" brainstorm, we had invited Ruben our contact person and his friends, all industrial designers.
We had arranged so that the room looked nice, candles, pens, colours and of course beer. Around sevenish people started to flock, and the temperature was high. I started up with telling little about our school, rules and the focus for the coming brainstorm, which was What product could of help the spectators to eat in a fun, practical and reusable way? And after that we had a warm-up, we asked all the guest to tell something we didn’t know about Ruben. All and all I can know say that I know that Ruben has a thing for cats and that he used to be a trapeze dude.
After that we had a little associations game to empty some heads. The participants could freely say what they associated with the word reusable or lunch kit. After this game we had two different brainstorms, one traditional and one negative. The participants seemed to like the negative brainstorm very much, even though it was more nasty and disgusting then negative.
We let the participants to choose their favourite idea and made a new associations game, you should write down your feeling you had during your first kiss and connect those feeling to the idea. Then we had the Idealog method, were each and everyone could write on each other’s ideas. Then we paired them up and told them to prepare a presentation and a sell speech.
It was fun to brainstorm with other people then only Kaospilots. We had ten new faces to concrete on, and it was cool to see how Kaospilot cooperated with non-kaospilots. It was also interesting to have a mix between experts (industrial designers) and “normal” people, us. Many great ideas came out of this day, and I hope that we can use a least some of them, letting Rubens friend to sketch them for our semi-deadline on Monday.
Cheers,
Ellen
We had arranged so that the room looked nice, candles, pens, colours and of course beer. Around sevenish people started to flock, and the temperature was high. I started up with telling little about our school, rules and the focus for the coming brainstorm, which was What product could of help the spectators to eat in a fun, practical and reusable way? And after that we had a warm-up, we asked all the guest to tell something we didn’t know about Ruben. All and all I can know say that I know that Ruben has a thing for cats and that he used to be a trapeze dude.
After that we had a little associations game to empty some heads. The participants could freely say what they associated with the word reusable or lunch kit. After this game we had two different brainstorms, one traditional and one negative. The participants seemed to like the negative brainstorm very much, even though it was more nasty and disgusting then negative.
We let the participants to choose their favourite idea and made a new associations game, you should write down your feeling you had during your first kiss and connect those feeling to the idea. Then we had the Idealog method, were each and everyone could write on each other’s ideas. Then we paired them up and told them to prepare a presentation and a sell speech.
It was fun to brainstorm with other people then only Kaospilots. We had ten new faces to concrete on, and it was cool to see how Kaospilot cooperated with non-kaospilots. It was also interesting to have a mix between experts (industrial designers) and “normal” people, us. Many great ideas came out of this day, and I hope that we can use a least some of them, letting Rubens friend to sketch them for our semi-deadline on Monday.
Cheers,
Ellen
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