homelessNEST: Final Presentation

Here are some photos from our final presentation. We ended up making a lean-to type urban tent for the homeless. The design is intended to give the homeless a sense of dignity and place. It provides a level of privacy and shelter to those who live on the streets of San Francisco. The tent is also collapsible and has a strap to carry it on your back.

-Brent, Jerry, & Sibil

Paragraph edit...a little late

Not everyone is aware of the alarming global situation our world is facing because they are not directly affected in their everyday lives. Many lifestyles we take for granted cause great damage to our planet. Consumer markets are starting to become aware of the environmental implications of their purchasing decisions, but it is up to designers to see the potential they possess to stop this environmental destruction. As designers we must investigate the life cycle of a product, because the impact of mass production to our earth is enormous. But sustainability is not just a design or a product, it is a way of life and, in the end, it is everyone’s responsibility to educate each other about our planet. Education and encouragement are the keys, getting involved is the spirit. In order to save our planet and have a healthy environment for our next generation, we need to change our attitude and take action. It is our responsibility to act since we have forced the environmental issues that surround us. Sustainability is a global effort in changing our lifestyle and thinking, and we have a long way to go. It’s easy to get desensitized to the plethora of facts and numbers, but big change starts small, and global change starts in your community, right here, right now.

-Brent

PARAGRAPH!

I hope no one minds, but I took everyone's paragraph, took out repetitive stuff, and this is what we're left with. Does anyone want to try to help put them together/edit what I’ve done? If you want to add or take out feel free!

-Sarah


" Not everyone is aware of the alarming global situation our world is facing, because it does not affect them directly in their everyday lives. Some lifestyles we may take for granted damages our earth a lot. Consumer markets are starting to become aware of the environmental implications of their purchasing decisions, designers , must wake up and see the potential they posses to stop the environmental decay that we are witnessing. The life cycle of a product is much shorter than a building, so the impact of mass production to our earth is enormous. Sustainability is not a design or a product. It is a way of life and everyone’s responsibility to educate each other about our planet. Education and encouragement are the keys, getting involved is the spirit. In order to save our planet and have a healthy environment for our next generation, we need to change our attitude and take action now; this is our responsibility since we have forced the environmental issues that surround us. Sustainability is a global effort, a change in our lifestyle and thinking, and we have a long way to go. It’s easy to get desensitized to the plethora of facts and numbers, but big change starts small, and global change starts in your community, right here, right now.”

Statement

Sustainability is not a design or a product. It is a way of life and everyone’s responsibility to educate each other about our planet. In order to save our planet and have a healthy environment for our next generation, we need to change our attitude and show the action now.

Terry

Sustainability paragraph description

Not all people are aware of the alarming global situation our world is facing. Knowing isn't just enough; we need to collectively act as a worldwide community to sustain this one place we're living in for the future generations to grow and know that we are not giving them a dying gray blob to live in. Sustainability is about having a world where the present and future generations can live happily.

Dorothy

Statement

Sustainability is not a word, but a action. It is a lifestyle full of responsibility.Education is the key, getting involved is the spirit. Don't look at your pocket- just do it for you, for children and for the earth.

-Queena

huh.

Well. Awesome statements friends . . . however, we need sort of a game plan as to how we're going to combine them and put them together to make a class statement. Maybe we could do it in the same vein as having a single sentence from everyone that succinctly describes how they feel and sort of combine everyone's individual statement? I don't really know . . . but that's just my suggestion.

-Sarah