Please describe a domain or an area of opportunity that you’d like to use as the focus for the design of a PRODUCT, SERVICE, or BUILT FEATURE that supports or promotes sustainable behaviors and practices for INDIVIDUALS in day-to-day use.
For this first design project, focus your thinking on:
- a PRODUCT -- something physical that can be manufactured, distributed, purchased, and potentially held in your hand or carried with you.
- a SERVICE or APPLICATION -- something that you can order, subscribe to, or use (in-person or online) -- that will support and promote the sustainability and resilience goals of your potential users.
- a SPACE, PLACE, or BUILDING FEATURE — that supports or promotes sustainability in the day-to-day activities of individual users.
Please share your initial thoughts in a few paragraphs below…
The domain that I’d like to focus on is….
Interested in people and their engagement with the surrounding environment, I’d like to design a product infused into a public space that promotes sustainability by engaging renewable energy in architecture.
This area is important/interesting to me because….
Every human is ought to consume resources, though there is only a finite quantity of each type given on the planet. For earth to continue functioning, alternatives to overconsumption of natural resources, such as renewable energy, need to be evoked. There are many potentials that humans can develop in our times, and with the support of these resources, anything is possible to unfold in our future. Thus, I hope to create a green environment for humankind to carry on, starting from our surroundings – residential areas.