CCT333+Week+2+Lab

Lab 2 Response:

1. Which product interests you the most, and why? (200 words)

When designing for the other 90% of the world, it is essential to take into consideration extreme affordability and the hierarchy of needs. Water is one of most important necessity of life. Looking at the various products designed for "the other 90%", the non-evaporative water storage system really caught my interest. This extremely affordable product captures and stores water from rainfall, monsoons etc. as a source of emergency reserve during dry seasons. Something so basic and affordable can store up too 10 000 litres of water, which can be essential in times of drought. The idea of the amount efficiency of such a simple design and the affect something like this can provide for a whole community to survive off of is simply amazing. Products so simple that can have such a dramatic affect and become essential tools of survival truly are successful designs for the "other 90%" of the world. They provide extreme affordability and efficiency like no other.

2. Which category would interest you to research further for your group project, and why? (100 words)

One category that would really interest me to do further research in is shelter. Shelter is one of the top categories in the hierarchy of needs and usually the most expensive necessity. Shelter is designed to protect individuals from the various elements of our environment along with security and sense of belonging. This category interests me the most because I would like to find more efficient ways of producing shelter for less fortunate communities that would be efficient with respects to the physical environment that surrounds them as well as at the same time be affordable and inexpensive.