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CEE 11Q: Sustainability Design Thinking | Spring 24
/Class Session 11:  Empathizing about Housing
Class Session 11: Empathizing about Housing
Class Session 11:  Empathizing about Housing

Class Session 11: Empathizing about Housing

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Project 2 Wrap Up

  • Spec Sheet
    • POV statement
    • MVP Features
    • Journey map for attitudes/behaviors and how this ideas affects them to promote sustainability
    • Sustainability Design Thinking Design Project 2 Spec Sheet Template

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      Sustainability Design Thinking Design Project 2 Spec Sheet Template
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Launching Design Project 3

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Project Brief

  • Domain
    • Housing — New Student Living Environments that encourage sustainability
  • Targets
    • General dorm population
    • Not at sustainability theme house
  • Endpoint
    • integrated Vision from entire design team
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The Housing Challenge — Acknowledging the Complexities of the System!

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Empathizing

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Observing

  • What are the opportunities for improving sustainability / sustainable behaviors?
    • Different times of day
      • Morning
      • Class Time
      • Noon
      • Afternoon
      • Dinner Time
      • Night
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Notes from Observing

CEE 11Q - Project 3- Design Journal Entries | Spring 2024

Posting Title
Link to Student
Journal Entry For
Observed Behaviors
Observing
  • Frat - Beer re-usable sources
  • West Campus Suites
    • Shared space outside of bedroom
      • Hang out
      • Homework
      • Projection
      • Extra Storage
    • Individual Single Rooms
    • One or two bathrooms per suite
    • Self-maintained — Good
    • All outdoors — even stairways
      • Terraces
      • Roofs
    • Lots of green views, outdoors connection
    • Community with people you already know
  • Wilbur - Junipero / Riconada
    • Big common room
      • Working
      • Homework space
    • Computer room
    • Compact Sleeping rooms
      • Not much storage space — need to buy more storage — plastic containers under your bed
      • Need your own minifridge
    • Incompatibility of sleeping schedules
      • Offset hours for athletes
    • Kitchen — small kitchen for each dorm — disgusting
      • No Space
      • No ownership
    • Security
      • Theft problems
      • Name on the doors — good and bad
    • Random roommates
    • Courtyard
    • Bathrooms
      • Compostable towels, but no other disposal readily available
    • Central trash
      • but people dispose in bathroom because more convenient
      • need other waste cans in halls or local places
    • Emergency phones
      • Old style — wired
      • Works even if power out
      • One per floor and in the lounge
  • Governer’s Corner - Robinson
    • Far from central campus
    • Peaceful
    • Bathrooms have a landfill trash can
    • Three room triple
      • 3 doors to hallway
      • 3 adjoining single rooms with no doors
      • Allows you to work off hours
    • Small living room
      • Don’t spend a lot of time there
    • High speed transit
  • Potter
    • Two room double
      • Go thru one room to get to other
      • Not great if you’re passed out
      • Great if your roommate moves out
  • EVGR
    • Not for undergrads
    • Your own apartment
    • Don’t know your neighbors
    • High Security
      • Your Building
      • Your Apartment
      • Your Room
      • Need to carry your ID card
    • Scary — like a scary movie
    • Feel lost and disoriented — lots of long hallways
    • Sterile
    • No shared hangout space
    • Not connected to nature
    • Big rooms
    • Own bath
    • Shared Living Space
      • not comfortable
      • couches too small
  • Blackwelder
    • Not have community
    • Recently renovated
    • Like a hotel
      • Don’t spend much time there
      • An OK place to sleep
    • Just what I needed
  • Always Gone Alonso - grad student, just needs to sleep — short-term transactional way station
  • Freshman Frannie — wants to meet people, socializing, RA events in the dorm (on-calls) — don’t have to go out; lots of proximity to other freshmen; shared dining experience; shared laundry
  • Athlete Alicia — accommodate off-hours schedules — similar schedules — closeness to teammates in shared space.
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Interviewing

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Notes from Interviewing

CEE 11Q - Project 3- Design Journal Entries | Spring 2024

Posting Title
Link to Student
Journal Entry For
Interviews
Interviews
Interviews
James Pullinger
Interviews
Composite Character Profiles
James Pullinger
Interviews
Interviews
Zarrin Askari
Interviews
Interviews
Izabella Smolnicka-Dos Santos
Interviews
Composite Character Profiles
Interviews
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Is there a place for Play in Sustainability Design Thinking?

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Game Design

IDEA Starting with a blank slate, create a game using given game equipment. Soccer ball example. Games with a frisbee. PURPOSE To include sense of play in sustainability design thinking to elevate creativity & human-centered focus. SET-UP 1 Need one volunteer. Volunteer will be given game equipme...

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Game Design
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Understanding

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Composite Characters that we can use

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Potential Composite Characters

CEE 11Q - Project 3- Design Journal Entries | Spring 2024

Posting Title
Link to Student
Journal Entry For
Composite Character Profiles
Composite Character Profiles
Composite Character Profiles
Zarrin Askari
Composite Character Profiles
Composite Character Profiles
Izabella Smolnicka-Dos Santos
Composite Character Profiles
Composite Character Profiles
Composite Character Profiles
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Identifying Needs > POV

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Potential Needs Identified

CEE 11Q - Project 3- Design Journal Entries | Spring 2024

Posting Title
Link to Student
Journal Entry For
POV Statements
POV Statements
POV Statements
Ana Palacios
POV Statements