🗓 11 May 2022

Application & Implications

The main objective of this week is to begin focusing on your final projects and interventions, defining the scope and developing a project plan for the rest of the course Some of the questions you should reflect on it and answer in your website:
My final project involves building a platform and resource based around everyday tools.

What will it do?

• Bring in traditions, techniques, and knowledge of non-Western cultures into the discourse of design and crafts
• Contribute to research on sustainable and regenrative materials and techniques which provide alternative options for industry
• Speculate on possible futures and the impact of our actions and choices of today
• Provide a platform for engagement and collective reimagining of "what is" and "what could be"
• Enable and empower change in individuals and communities

Who’s done what beforehand?

• Unstable Design Lab
• Made in the Future
• Emerging Objects
• Tools for Making Sense Together

What will you design?

• A series of speculative "tools" based on curent scenarios
• A platform for engamenet and connection
• A map to connect existing communities and networks

What materials and components will be used?

• Natural materials
• Waste and upcycled materials
• Local regional materials

Where will it come from?

• Local organizations
• Local land

How much will they cost?

• TBD

What parts and systems will be made?

• Not sure this question is relevant

What processes will be used?

• Molding and casting
• Traditional craft techniques combined with digital fabrication
• Coding and programming

What questions need to be answered?

• Which communities could most benefit?
• What is the best way to connect communities?
• Who are my collaborators?
• What is the starting point to this platform?

How will it be evaluated?

• Community engagement
• Feedback surveys
• Subscriptions or quantitative data