Target Audience: Community Service
~ # of classes: 20
Using your developed Design Lab skills, Create a functioning artifact from a piece/s of up-cycled material.
In other words, if it was destine for landfill and you can use it to make a functioning product or restore it to a new condition, then you are thinking Up-cycle/Repair
Your final product can use some raw materials but MUST highlight to material/s that are being re-used
You have two choices here
1. Check the Gantt chart example in the resources and fill in the template with all key dates and processes (strands) for the entire unit
2. Plan the creation stage with detail given to the tools required and process. Include any safety concern or procedures
In this project, your target is community service. Consumerism and a throw away society in which we live in accounts for far too much waste and polluting the planet at an extraordinary rate.
You need to make sure that you have a problem focus. Use the template provided on Seesaw to detail a 'Problem Statement'. That has a focus on at least one if not all of these:
A couple of handy links:
Circular economy - link
Linear economy - Link (Story Hopper)
Look at existing products that you think you would like to design a make yourself. It is no use analyzing products that you have no interest in! Here is a good search to help get your creative mind flowing:
Add an image at the top of the template provided and conduct a SWOT analysis. For the opportunities, consider how you could apply this idea within your own design
Summarize what you have learnt through research or tutorials, to be able to manufacture your product
Consider the content you have researched.
What skills have you gained or developed?
Now that you have completed your research, let's make sure you are on the right track to create a successful product or solution.
What design specifications will make your end product or solution successful? Write your ideas down in the imperative form (i.e. it must do..., it has to include…).
Here is a LINK to some generic specifications with descriptions and at the bottom of the doc some generally used testing methods (evaluation)
Here are some specific ideas for Specifications you may like to choose from:
Concept sketching is an integral part of the design process. Based on your design specifications and the opportunities you identified during your SWOT analysis of existing products, begin to sketch out at least 3 different ideas and share them with peers.
One method to test whether or not the product you are planning will work well for your clients would be to let a similar target market look at your concepts for constructive feedback
Share the 3 concept sketches with your peers and possibly family member or wherever the product is to be used determine how effectively others think that these products meet the design specifications you have developed.
Now that you have chosen your final idea you will need to develop drawings of parts (CAD or sketch) along with a cutting list (if you require one) as you move into the design lab. If you intend to use either the 3D printer or the laser cutter you must have CAD models.
NOTE:
Model your design using the foam-board. This will help you determine correct sizes, see if your product is an appropriate size, if all the parts fit well, look at how you will join pieces together, engage your client, aesthetics....etc
Now that you have completed your design, reflect on your progress with this self assessment.
Complete the questions below using the template provided:
As we begin this unit, let's look at a way of charting our progress that might be useful to plan your time. Copy the Gantt chart from the 'Resources' and look through the stages (strands) that you would have to complete from this unit in order to achieve the outcome
While you are creating your product, you will show evidence of the process, to demonstrate the technical skills you are learning. This can later serve as a road-map to create similar products or solutions.
WRITE, PHOTOGRAPH and/or RECORD the following:
Present your final design and document whether or not you met your key dates or had to change your plans. This can also be a link to your final product or solution.
Now that you have completed your product or solution, help out a peer in reviewing their work. Use the template provided to give them constructive feedback.
Complete the questions below using the template provided:
Go back to the design specifications that you created in B1. Look at the testing methods that you considered using to test if those specifications would be successful. Design and carry out those methods.
Typical testing methods include:
Go back to the design specifications that you created in B1. Paste these specifications into the first column in the template provided. Based on the tests you conducted in D1, paste in the link to the results of this testing in the Testing Results column. Evaluate the success of the testing. Were your design specifications met?