Moving on from idea No. 1 but to use the universities paper waste to make other materials, like plastics, MDF, hard cardboard. Maybe by leaving water
Goal: Protoype
Leonie reached the conclusion that she needs to establish an organization within the university to delegate the responsibility and the work from her initiative.
So far she is the main person in charge, she writes the emails, organizes the meetings and activities. The main problem is that is she's not available, no one takes over.
The goal is to figure out how to reel in students to participate, make it more dynamic and for people not only to be interested in the garden, but to actually proactive.
Discussion: Lars says this problem is very common in almost every initiative. In Berlin there's a similar garden initiative based in a huge house, where people live there in exchange for maintaining the garden.
Leonie would prefer if there wasn't a "boss" to organize everything
Mercedes suggests associating university credits to the group, 2 for participation and 4 for being part of the organization team. Leonie had envisioned the dye garden group as a part of the mandatory pensum for first semester students, and for students that are already part of it to integrate it into their atelier projects.
Relying on a voluntary colaborative system with no managing system hasn't worked out so far, so the goal for the next meeting is to figure out how to "activate" the diy garden community.
Another suggestion is to showcase what these dyes can actually do. Workshop where they learn to make natural sustainable dyes, contest where they use those dyes, and then showcase the results of said contest.
Elinor Ostrom's 8 Principles for Managing A Commmons
Product / Initiative | Global Scale | Nachhaltig | Schönheit |
---|---|---|---|
Upmade by Reet Aus | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Really by Kvadrat | ✓ | End prod. ✓ Process ? | ✓ |
The new denim project | ✓ | Source prod X, Prozess ? End prod ✓ | ✓ |
The idea would be to set up an open guide on how to separate and clasify electronic pieces
Bed or Trolly, probably modular bed for kids
Maurice didn't really reach an object idea but rather continued his research for modular furniture and office solutions
Research links:
Discussion:
Stykka: Company makes a 3D scan of your space and asks what you need of it. They design modular furniture that fits your space and tends to your needs. If you like the offer, they ship the products.
Goal for next week is to critique these modular systems' sustainability (recyclability and so on) and openness (modular systems' lack of opennes limits their actual flexibility, since they can isolate each other)
Flexible system to set up office spaces. Open spaces with modular furniture that improve productivity and creativity. Review of research from previous weeks.
Maurice wen't the Mozilla Open Leadership program where he explored the concept of personas and customer journeys. He came upon the concept of Guaranteed Availability, that would transform his project as follows:
–> In this case the pieces of modular furniture would be rented by a company. The amount and type of pieces would be handled as a service, that clients would be able to up- or downgrade according to their needs. And once they're finished with them, the furniture wouldn't be thrown away but "refreshed" and then made available once more to be rented.
A worm box
Discussion: open hardware beehives. Aquaponic: self-sustained system where fish live in an aquarium and their "bio-waste" fertilizes a second level with plants (growing tomatoes for example), and plants "clean" the fishes water.
Make smoking and the cigarette production "a bit more sustainable"
PAD: https://hackmd.io/wlU8DRWWQlegT9pIubVMLw?view
Thinks about circular fashion now. Real Cradle to Cradle economy (no garbage at all)
Hint from Leonie: Neufert - A book with all kinds of standard measures from bodies to furniture
First shared link: http://www.postcouture.cc/