# OMTGR Translation Pad

## Emma

#### 7th of May

1. Bin that turns not-easily-recyclable or overflowing waste into raw materials. Originally thought for seeds (marmalade manufacturing company)
2. Tobacco personal caddy that facilitates its bulk buying + accessories (papers, filters) without the need of plastic packaging.

#### 14th of May
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

#### 7th of May

1. A solution to store recipes and ideas to use herbs and vegetables. The idea is to link it digitally to the "colour garden" that Leonie is developing in the university. The colour garden is to have "sustainable alternatives" to dyes and paints in the design and art school. It can also be used as sustainable ink for printers.
2. A digital inventory for the "Mensa" (the university dinner) that facilitates getting different dyes from what ingredients and waste are available in the kitchen
3. A system for students to have an idea of the materials left in the workshops (wood, metal, ceramic, etc). Students have no concept of what's there, and buy something new whenever they have a project. The "thing" would help keep inventory and students would buy materials directly from the uni
4. Same as 3) but to facilitate materail exchange between students
5. A solution to turn the time we spend exercising into more "productive" time.
Discussion: "why is exercising unproductive?"
The example Leonie used is to shovel snow by hand, instead of using a machine for it. It's not the most efficient way to do it, but counts as exercise and it has an extra result that helps the community, i.e. it's more productive

#### 14th of May

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](http://www.onthecommons.org/magazine/elinor-ostroms-8-principles-managing-commmons#sthash.2QLLwVEb.dpbs)

## Mercedes

#### 7th of May

- Wants to work with E-Waste

1. Metal-Chair. Seating area would be made from cables, used cables or old ones. | Reused Metal in the base. | The cables would not be weaved. But screwed to the frame. Because the cables aren't too long.
2. Keyboards. Put a silicone-cover over it to have it as a foot-warmer. It is fun with your toes on the silicone surface
3. Light switches from old computer mouses
4. Fasteners or wristbands from old USB cables.
5. Thingy to avoid that cups fall over -> Way to teach people to take better care of their stuff.

#### 14th of May

| Product / Initiative | Global Scale | Nachhaltig | Schönheit |
| -------- | -------- | -------- | -------- |
| [Upmade](http://www.reetaus.com/aus-world/upmade) by Reet Aus | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| [Really](https://youtu.be/EJWIVJDcxNk) by [Kvadrat](https://kvadrat.dk/)| ✓ | End prod. ✓ Process ? | ✓|
|[The new denim project](https://www.thenewdenimproject.com/) |✓|Source prod X, Prozess ? End prod ✓|✓

The idea would be to set up an open guide on how to separate and clasify electronic pieces

## Mirko

#### 14th of May

Bed or Trolly, probably modular bed for kids

## Maurice

#### 7th of May

1. A modular fastner system for office use, to set up space separators (Raumteiler), chairs, etc
Discussion: it can be more of a modular furniture system. The fastner idea might
2. A reusable drinking bottle
3. a very simple camera that would be relatively cheap (good video) and would upload a class video directly to the internet, for students to review what they haven't understood.
Discussion: It can also software system where it gets uploaded directly to the cloud, regardless of the recording object used.

#### 14th of May

Maurice didn't really reach an object idea but rather continued his research for modular furniture and office solutions

Research links:
* [Modular furniture](https://www.homedit.com/modular-furniture/)
* [Space partitions](https://molodesign.com/collections/space-partitions/)
* [3D-printed joints](https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2400175) - [Use examples](https://www.thingiverse.com/make:607059)
* [Modular design first principles](https://www.gregoryschmidt.ca/writing/modular-design-first-principles-from-the-physical-world)

**Discussion:**

[Stykka](https://stykka.com/): 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)

#### 28th of May
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.

## Simon
#### 7th of May
1. 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.

2. Make smoking and the cigarette production "a bit more sustainable"

#### 14th of May

PAD: https://hackmd.io/wlU8DRWWQlegT9pIubVMLw?view

## Thorsten
#### 7th of May

1. eBay Kleinanzeigen for Materials (with QR codes)
+ Multi-purpose fastner
Discussion: a tool kit filled with fastners accompanied by a fastner uses database. A community can be built around it. Examples:
Frizzing kit: kit filled with electronic parts developed by others

## Weiying

#### 7th of May

1. Modular fastner for clothing, to replace metal fastners facilitate separating fastners from clothing when something gets damaged and needs to be sorted.
Discussion: circularfashion.com

#### 14th of May
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/