peer comments for project one: disaster

Xiao, Ruyu Julia

Zhang, Menglei Claudia

Wang, Fanru

Shao, LuFei Vivian

Arezzi, Guida

Project one: design for disasters

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Product poster:

Use of product:

Rationale

I am doing the Indonesian earthquake disaster. Before drawing the concept on this project, i do the research first. I look at the history of indonesia first. i want to understand more information about the country, such as what style they are, biology, what kinds of weather, life style and the economic income. Through the research i found that Indonesia is the world's largest rattan material and production and export countries. Indonesia's plywood, sawn timber, pulp, paper,wood products in the chinese market plays an important role.

After research the background of Indonesia, i focus on disaster which happen in the country see what kinds of product they need in the disaster situation, the information show that they mainly use tent, stretcher, radio and lighter. My design focus on what they really need. My concept is all abut stretcher.

I look at the existing product ,i found out that most of them use the material not environment friendly and the way of product package is not that convinced.

My design is foldable, easy assembly and easy to carry. my concept of the stretcher is design for rescue team people, it can carry at the back as a bag. which is to reduce the weight on the hand, when the stretcher carry at the back, hands will more relax and can carry other tools to rescue victims.

The weight of my product is 9 kg, the size is 200 x 55 x 15cm . The stretcher has 3 parts which can easy fold into one set. the material of product is aluminum alloy and hessian. my design has balance and protection function. i put myself as a victomes who is laying on the stretcher. i found the most import thing is want to be safe. The existing product most of them just flat, no anything protecting the side. there for i come up with the side handy can as a safety bar. this bar not just for holding on the side of the victom it also can unfold it down to extending the length , which is for the people who is over size. the reason i use aluminum alloy for handle/body bone is the material is light, strong and can be recycle.

I use hessian for the stretcher bed, this material is eco-friendly , easy to find in indonesia which can provide by own country. By using this material provide by local environment which can save lots of transport and can increase the economic for the whole country.

When making this product i been research of ergonomic on what way people will feel more comfortable. for the victim and the rescue people. Through the research i found the comfortable size of back carry is no bigger than people's hip size, it allows the arms move free. I have make lots of small model to test which will work the best.

overall, my design is make for people easy carry in difficult situation, easy store and clean. when the product is not use for earthquake it will place on the local hospital and surgery, it will have 5 of them in one red cross box hanging on the wall .

The way to clean the hessian is easy just brush out the dirty stuff and use water to wash it.

Reflection

This project is focus on material using and who is the target audience. Nows day product material use become more and more important, it affects our daily life. The manufactory want to have benefit form the consumer then product lots of unnecessary product and humming the environment. the pollution draws us attention. this project have guild me how to choose material for actual product.

My concept of this disaster project is stretcher that make form local environment which is Indonesia, and the material is environmental friendly. I choose hessian and aluminum alloy for the stretcher,reason is hessian easy found,easy recycle.

In this project i spend most of the time in testing the use ability, how can the design be small, light, easy use and not hum to environment. I have make lots of experience of how can this design work.

In the research of the material i found hard to found a suitable material that can use on my design. but finally i found one type can be use. in the being i feel this material not that good to use because the color of it, is so natural. but then i think a bit backward. yes we have to make stuff that good for environment or relate with eco. our topic is design for disaster which is to help people , help word there the material can't be hum to user or the environment.

Also this project teaches me how to understand clients need. By providing there need and have to consider of the cycle life of the product.

Actually i like this topic it gave knowledge of research and have challenge my ability of concept thinking and model making skills. with the concept i feels like never end. i feel happy of it, that means i am on the track as a design student we have to keep thinking.

Also i feel frustrate of making this concept because can't find the exactly material and so much details have to consider whether it proper to use or not. if have more time i will develop more of my concept to fit the disaster's need.

Task 2b:Sustainable consumption

Reflection : The story of electronics and Life psycle-ology

After watching short video of "Life psycle-ology" and "The story of electronics"，it gives me good understanding of how the e-product's made and seriously effecting our daily life and the environment. In another hand these two video shows how evil the manufacturer just focus on profits and not considering the impact of worker, consumer and the environment.

In the video "the story of electronics" it tells how the design is toxic for the people and the planet. Usually i will buy new stuff when the market advertise new attractive product which it draws my attention or some time when the old one is no long to use, when these product get old i throw them into garbage bin, i never think about how waste i am and never know how these throw away product end up to. But the video tells me the true, the way that i am doing is not correct, i shouldn't be attracted by the new product, i should consider more about do i really need it.

Also the video educated my knowledge of marketing. the manufacturer's key strategy for the company is to sale more, make the product thrown away quickly then they can make out of profit.

Today's electronics that we use every day (such as computers, cell phones, tv) are hard to upgrade, easy to break and impractical to repair. also the manufacturer's using lots of toxic chemicals to produce the product such as pvc, mercury, solvents and flame retardants which these chemical will harm to the worker health and environment. the impact of these product is end up become the mountains of e-waste. the impact report shows that "each year we make 25 millon tons of e-waste which gets dumped,burned or recycled". How scary is that.

As an design student i think is the time to say no to "toxics in and toxics out". the most effective way to reduce the impact on the environment is to integrate environmental considerations into the product development process. to do this, we must consider the environmental impact of materials, energy and toxicity across an e-product's entire life cycle. we can make the product more modular, when one part broke can use new piece to repair, also can make product longer lasting, toxic free and can be recycle.

Task 3 Ecoredesign (Disassembly kettle)

The product that we disassembly is kettle. this product take us about 2 hours to speared in to parts. The hardest of this product is have to use many different fasteners to get the screws out.

In this exercise we identify the product materials and discusses the process of how the parts made. This kettle predominantly use material of polyproperly. The design of this product is simply,but there is challenge of hard to take out the heating system. Only this part it has 8 screws. After the disassembly we find out all the material of this product ended up have to go to landfill, nothing can be really recycle that is really waste.

The report from the greenfly shows that the part that has most environment impact is the heating system. (It took long time to separate it.) This result also shows that the design company didn't really consider about the environment when they design.

For redesign this product we can do better so don't have to waste that much. we consider to reduce the require of using fastener, there for most of the part can be use technique of self lock, in this way manufactory can reduce the cost of product and also can easy to get the product recycle which is more friendly for the environment.

Group member:

Guida Arezzi

Stanley Darmawan

Xiaoling Li

Jen Jun Zhu

katty

Task 2: Reflection of Recycling

The video shows the process of waste products get recycle into a new product. after watch these video i realist that recycle is very important for us because it relate to our environment condition.

What is recycle? Recycle is the way to prevent waster of potentially useful materials, is to reduce the consumption of fresh raw materials, it can reduce energy usage, save environmental conditions which reduces pollution, saves natural resources and saves space for waste disposal.

Recyclable materials include many kinds of glass,paper,metal,plastic,textiles and electronics. In the video shows that the machine system is very useful and powerful which can identify the material type and separate it in to different section then give them a new life to become a new product. However this machine still not the best solution for the waste problem. The better solution to reduce waste is on design which is depends on what material they made from,how long can the product use for and can the product reuse.

As an design student we have to consider about the environment Issue before we design, because we don't want our environment get pollute. There are three key factors we have to think about: reduce,reuse and recycle. By doing so we better to use green material and always think about sustainability.

ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT

In the Ecological footprint quiz result shows that we need 3.64 plant earths if everyone lived with my lifestyle . My footprint in global hectares by consumption category and footprint share by biome total are 57.17.

After this quiz i feel a bit guilty to the environment. Because i never really think about everything that i do will affect the world so much which from the small things: foods to the use goods. Honestly i thought i did do the right thing, such as didn't create much waste, save things, not buy much unnecessary stuff and recycle most goods. But the result show i still not good enough so i need to try much more harder not to harm the environment and as an industrial design student we really need to think about the design is sustainable and can be recycle after use.

In conclusion, this ecological footprint centre is very useful, it use the easy way to tell what we do in the lifestyle affecting the planet and tell everyone need to care about the environment.

my ecological footprint quiz result pdf :

Seymour Powell :Designing dream machines

Designing Dream Machinses by Dick Powell and Richard Seymour. This is very helpful and interesting video. it through journey to describe design process . The video mainly talk about "Communication". It pinot out that the a clear communication must need for a designer that not only for client but also for target market. Also the visual communication is very important, we have to develop and improve the skills to meet the success which have to combine hand drawing with computer modeling.