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Empathy - Inspiration
Empathy - Inspiration
UN Sustainable Development Goals
UN Sustainable Development Goals
The UN Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDG) are a set of 17 goals set by the UN to be accomplished by the year 2030. These goals aim to move us towards a more sustainable and happier future for humanity.
Vital Signs
Vital Signs
In our GSD class, we learned about NASA's "vital signs" for the Earth. These include important and well known factors such as temperature, atmospheric carbon dioxide, and land and sea ice. It also includes important but lesser known factors such as Ocean Acidification. These "vital signs" give humanity an idea of the "health" of the Earth's climate. Like a pulse, scientists can use these vital signs to determine if anything is seriously wrong with out planet's climate.
Define - Specifying
Define - Specifying
UN SDG #11
UN SDG #11
UN SDG #11 is the main inspiration for the first t-shirt. This UN SDG specializes in the sustainable development of cities. Over 50% of the modern population lives in cities, however, this figure is expected to rise to over 70% by 2050. In 2020, 1.1 Billion of these residents currently live in slum-like conditions, and this number is expected to rise to over 3 billion by 2050. Most of these people inhabiting slum like conditions live in Central/South America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and South-Eastern Asia.
UN SDG #11 aims to increase quality of life for those living in slum-like conditions, make a sustainable process of urbanization, and support the development of sustainable urban environments in developing countries.
Ocean Acidification
Ocean Acidification
Ocean Acidification is one of the lesser known but still extremely important vital signs that NASA presents. In the past century, the ocean has become significantly more acidic due to human activity. Since the industrial revolution, humans have dumped billions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere due to various industrial processes. While some of the effects of this atmospheric carbon are extremely well known, such as global temperature increase and increased extremities in weather events, ocean acidification is a much lesser known effect, while still having dire consequences. Ocean acidification is the increase of hydrogen ions present in the ocean, caused by the fact that around a third of atmospheric carbon emissions is diffused into the ocean, and through various chemical reactions, increases the acidity of the ocean. This has major consequences for both humans and animals alike, as it compromises the stability of marine ecosystems, the sustainability of fishing industries and the stability of various cultural practices around the world.
Ideate - Sketching
Ideate - Sketching
Ideation Sketches
Ideation Sketches
Most of the ideation process is spent making quick ideation sketches. These sketches create a lot of basic and general design ideas as well as getting creativity flowing. For this design process, 12 sketches were created for the ocean acidification design, as well as 12 were also created for the UN SDG #11 design.
Design Sketches
UN SDG Design Sketches
UN SDG Design Sketches
Ocean Acidification Design Sketches
Ocean Acidification Design Sketches
Prototype - Creating a Design
Prototype - Creating a Design
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Illustrator
For this project, we primarily used the digital art program known as Adobe Illustrator. While this tool is primarily used for 2-dimension basic sketching (not super technical or precise), it is extremely useful for artists and those working with more creative art pieces.
Designing
Designing
Using Adobe Illustrator, I created a design for both my UN SDG goal and my vital sign. My UN SDG sketch was more difficult, as I spent a lot more time making this sketch in detail. My vital sign sketch on the other hand, was a lot easier designing, but a lot harder during the ideation process. Coming up with a creative and unique design for representing ocean acidification was time consuming and difficult.
T-Shirt Designs
UN SDG #11
UN SDG #11
Ocean Acidification
Ocean Acidification
Printing
Printing
Using a t-shirt press and this instruction manual (that I helped create!) I learned how to print my t-shirt on the t-shirt heat press in KRLL. There were a lot of roadblocks initially, as the instruction manual from previous years was unclear in directions of what to do. Later, one of the shop teachers explain clearly to me how the machine operated and together we wrote more clear instructions of how to operate the machine.
T-Shirt Design
T-Shirt Design
T-Shirt
T-Shirt
Test -
Test -
Sustainability Fair
Sustainability Fair
We plan to test and wear these shirts during the Punahou Sustainability Fair held in April.
We will wear these shirts while presenting our projects to elementary and middle school students at the fair.
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