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 * CCT333 Tutorial 8 Questions:**

Describe how Natalie Jeremijenko has based her research on "new technologies are an opportunity for social transformation" to perform "small actions that can amount to a significant effect to improve local environmental health". Tip: Opening up TED's interactive transcript is very helpful to understand her talk and also looking over her web site on the Environmental Health at Clinic at [|__http://www.environmentalhealthclinic.net/people/natalie-jeremijenko/__]. (2 paragraphs)

With respect to Natalie Jeremiienko's approach to "new technologies are an opportunity for social transformation", her work is driven towards aiding environmental health. She performs small actions that amount to significant effect in order to improve the overall environmental health surrounding her. Her practise resides in New York, where she attempts to generate an eco-mind shift within local surroundings. Small innovative actions and technologies can create a socio-cultural impact to her surroundings.

For example Natalie used the example of using the tadpole placed in local drinking water in order to show the affects in the quality of the drinking water around us. Tadpoles are sensitive to environmental pollutants and are a living example of the quality of water. Small experimental innovations such as the tadpole water test can prove to be effective indicators of the environmental stresses surrounding us. Choose two projects on HowStuffisMade at [|__http://howstuffismade.org/__] and write about how they are made. (1 paragraph each/2 paragraphs)

Guitar: The production process of the guitar is very tedious and requires the use of machines to perfect it. The process starts off the gathering the core resources of the product which consists of rough sheets of high quality woods imported from all over. These pieces are then cut and shaped accordingly to the appropriate style (curves). The necks are then produces separately using a single piece of woods. Lastly the strings are added to complete the production of the guitar.

Fortune Cookie: These cultural treats have a distinctive shape and fold that other traditional cookies do not have. It is made from sugar, flour, eggs and water. The process is high automated using machines, griddles etc. that process the production and baking of the cookie wafers. Once the cookies have been made, an individual or group of people will inspect to ensure the quality of the cookies and place the fortune papers inside the back of the cookie and then prepared for packaging.

Why is it important that we understand how stuff is made as part of our systems analysis and design process? (1 paragraph)

It is essential to understand the process of how things are made when analyzing the design process in order to understand how to efficiently produce your product. You have to take into consideration time, money, intellectual property etc. in the process of coming up with a design. Understanding how things are made the resources needed to produce your product is a key factor in approaching your design.