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

Statement

Sustainability is a choice people still have; while consumer markets are becoming increasingly aware of the environmental implications of their purchasing decisions, designers have to realize the potential they posses to stop the environmental decay that we are witnessing

Pedro

Sustainability is not only a word.......

As I remember, green design became a trend in the last15 years. People talk about sustinability in every design field, such as industry design, architectural deisn.....etc. Taking this class gave me another chance to think deeply by changing a roll from an engineer to a designer. The life cycle of a product is much shorter than a building, so the impact of mass production to our earth is enormous. Some people care about this issue. They believe if we don't decrease impact to enviroment, it would become a serious disaster in no longer future. however, most of people don't care about it. they think the issue is too far from them. I hope one day we become designers and then we use our knowledge to help people and save the earth.


Stanley

Encouragement

In my point of view, encouragement is a good way to increase people’s interests at sustaining this world. In my researches, many people said that they are too lazy to go green. Many well design green products didn’t increase people’s interests to do sustainable thing so people won’t buy them. How to rise up people’s interests is a point that every industrial designer need to think about it.

Raymond

My understanding of Sustainability

What is the most important thing about sustainability? It could be responsbility, encouragement or awareness.... For me, I believe that human behavior or the way of living is the key to understand sustainability.

I've been thinking the way I'm living from they way I cook, they way I throw my trash to the way I use utilitysince I start taking special topics class. Some lifestyle we take for granted may actually damage our earth a lot. We can never imagine that the apples we buy today might harm our communites because the apple is not seasonal food in may. Also, you've no idea how much waste you make by tossing coffee papercups.

It's all about how people live on our earth. Sustainability needs everyone to aware and to act. That's why in our dairy project we try to change consumer's behavior to buy milk. If the way of buying milk only limit on using our own reusable bottle to get the milk, how can we make any more packaging waste?

~Siqi

Statement for sustainable

If people should face sustainable tissue with positive attitude, our generation will get a great reward in the future.

Yiqing Zhu

My statement of this class

This class made me realize that global warming is a very big crisis that we as a world are all facing together. A lot of people do not realize how important it is, because it does not affect them directly. But they should think about their children or their grandchildren, and think what they would have to go through if we do not find a way to fix the problem. The class really made me open my eyes to what has to be done to save our environment. Of course, fixing global warming is not done that easily- many steps have to be taken, but even the smallest contribution from each person can help, such as turning off lights and applications when they are not in use, carpooling or biking to work instead of driving, recycling, etc. This is a responsibility we all have as humans, since we are the ones that are killing the planet with our pollution. I think education is the best way to create awareness. Schools should encourage a sustainable lifestyle more. As of now, there are a lot of people who are trying to fix the problem, but not enough. We would need everyone to take action in order to reduce global warming.

Jerry

Class Statement

Here's my shot at a class statement for the exhibition. Let me know what you think, or if there's something I'm really missing. I figured I'd keep it around 4 sentences otherwise it's too much text and people will be less likely to stop to read it.

"The actual meaning of sustainability gets lost in today’s green-washing jargon. People might think it’s in driving a hybrid car, or reusing a grocery bag, or as simple as taking a shorter shower. They’re both right and wrong. 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. "

- Victor

Video in progress of the IPhone Application...

Light pollution Landscapes

Light pollution can be beautiful. Here are some pictures I took last night on the beach, I hope you like them. Pedro Cerisola

Visa Mastercard Commercial

Hi all,

Here's a commercial made for Visa Mastercard. Its about a kid trying to make his dad more eco-friendly. I thought its a nice way of informing people to be more environmentally conscious by starting small and ends with a significant effect.

Here's the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkYdM-EM47k

Dorothy

Trash Receptacle

Hi all,

Here is a trash receptacle made by BMW Group Designworks USA. Found this in the back issues of ID magazine December 2006.

http://www.ecopod.org/

Dorothy

Children's books

Since I'm making a children's book about light pollution, I have been looking at a lot of children's books. There are many centered on "global warming" and "recycling". Here are some photos of titles that I thought were interesting.

Sarah

Invisible People

Hi Everyone

The following link mostly has to do with our group project on homelessness, but it is a really interesting look into their lives ...

http://invisiblepeople.tv/blog/

--Sibil

Renewable Energy Map

https://www.nrdc.org/energy/renewables/default.asp

Renewable Energy Map. Also NRDC is a good site to check out anyway.

Sarah

Hey everyone,

Based on what we discussed in class, what I hear from you guys, and my own person troubles with the current blog system we have, I have a proposal for guys:

I feel the lack of posting is contributed to the following:

- Topics being flooded away
- Hard to keep up on feedback because topics are flooded away
- Login and password kicking you out of your gmail
- Login and password somewhat long and hard to remember
- Hard to look up past posts and information
- etc...

I have created a forum us to use if you would like to try it out. It's late in the semester but better late than never. It can serve as a model for future classes. The benefits are as follows:

- You create your own user name and password and profile. You can update your profile info, link you personal websites / info
- Newest posts update to top, shows who's the latest poster
- Old posts are easy to find and when someone posts, it goes to the top
- For teachers: shows how many posts a specific user has posted to grade class participation
- Other benefit.


So make a login and try to post. Repost your projects and leave feedback for others. If we can get at least one good conversation on a project then it'll have outdone blog already.

http://sustainablesf.forumotion.com


- Victor
IDS

EARTH DAY is tomorrow

Sources of places you can volunteer not just tomorrow, but anytime!

ALEMANY FARM an organic farm growing food & helping low-income kids in South SF
http://www.alemanyfarm.org/


CITY SLICKER FARMS in Oakland, CA
http://www.cityslickerfarms.org/volunteer.htm

SAVE THE BAY
http://www.savesfbay.org

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
http://eastbay.volunteerhub.com/Events/Browse.aspx

PRESIDIO PLANT NURSERY
http://www.parksconservancy.org

PROJECT HOMELESS CONNECT
http://projecthomelessconnect.com

SF CONNECT
http://www.sfconnect.net

-Sarah

Queena and Ella, I found this bottle water business that is similar to your  project.

I hope u can get some ideas from. 

^^

http://www.tapdny.com/manifesto/

Raymon

Automatic can and pet bottle disposal unit

Hi all,
The first picture below is showing a "small booth" for recycling electronics in a parking center. I think many people had seen this kind of recycling system.




However, the interesting thing is that my friend told me in Korea they have "machines" similar with this one. It is called automatic can and pet bottle disposal unit. It could count weight, size and material to sort objects. Also, people can get money from it.







Here is a link to their website.
http://www.top-ranker.com/index.html

when you click the link, it will jump out a video window. the video could explain this function well. Because it's a Korean website so you may not understand.


-Queena

National Geographic magazine

Hi all,

National Geographic magazine has a special collector's issue about energy and the environment. If you want to check it out you can find it at Borders.

Dorothy

Pictures

Hi all,

Here's some interesting pictures I found from a graphics design magazine.

Siqi here's the picture of the dairy section that I was talking about yesterday.

Dorothy

(Concept sketches)"Nest" a sustainable shelter for homeless. Part-2

These are the 6 sketches that have been narrowed down and picked from our 30 sketches this week. We picked the features of portability, inflation, durability, and comfort, and tried to combine those features into the sketches. And here we go.

Jerry

(Concept sketches)"Nest" a sustainable shelter for homeless.

Our idea around these sketches was to create a "shelter" for homeless. Though the concept is shelter, we didn't limit ourself of only designing a shelter like design. Contrarily, any idea was acceptable at this stage. And then the next week, which is today, the concept will be narrowing down to certain features, shapes, etc. so, take a look of our initial sketches and try to give us some feedback if you want.

Jerry