ECO-SYSTEM INNOVATORS

Unit 1 Project: Bedroom Redesign

In this unit, we went through 2 part:

For the first part, I grouped up with 2 other classmate, and learn how to create a driving question about one of our groupmate's bedroom. I grouped up with my friends, and discuss with the AC's low efficiency problem we got. Here is the detailed explanation. You can check the detailed information at "Creating a Driving Question" , which will be the box under this one.

The second part is an individual project, my task is to using art principle (Floor plan, layout, Feng Shui) and science concept (Automation, logic) to redesign my bedroom. However, we not only solve our own desire, but also the world, we need to come up with an eco-friendly plan. And you can check it out at "Personal Bedroom Redesign"

▲"How can I change my bedroom using automation and spacial design to make it more eco-friendly?"

Creating a Driving Question

We have been discussing this question for Dani's bedroom, and he come up with this driving question since his AC is always open and wasting a lot of energy. Therefore, we design a pratical solution — a thermometer connecting to the AC; the user(Dani ) can set the temperature where AC will be triggered. For instance, if he set it to "If the temperature is open 20, open the AC until it is back to under 20.".

For the spacial design, we decided to make the furniture having a perfectly designed hole to slide in, avoiding the efficiency loss and shortened the time to get the room cool.

If we get to improves it, we definetly change the word "spacial design" into "spacial redesign", because if we don't it means that the space isn't even exist.

▲The presentation of Bedroom Redesign

Personal Bedroom Redesign

I make a floor plan of my bedroom at first, (which is the middle-left picture). Then, I was assigned to draw it again on the paper teacher gave (top-right picture), while mark down all the length and furniture. I think I did a good job on the before bedroom floor plan.

Next, we need to follow the Feng Shui Law and re arrange all of the furniture, as you can see, (top right picture). I did it by moving my desk, bed and shelfs. But I also added some furniture such as water fountain and tools' shelf. And my rearrange plan is safe for living since the design allow me to react to different emergency condition.

Last, I come up with a question, which is my AC is hard to control. Therefore, I drew an automation plan, which is "Whenever the temperature sensor notice the temperature is lower than 25 degree, turn off the AC.". This plan not only help saving electricity plan, but also help the world by decrease the CO2's releasing. We draw the plan using logic chart (left-bottom picture).

After connecting everything together and make a 4 minute presentation to it, I finish my well done project. I am pretty satisfied. And you can check out my presentation by clicking the picture on the right of this block.

Bedroom Layout (Before)

I measure all the walls and furniture in my bedroom then draw it out on a paper.

Bedroom Layout (After)

I rearrange all the furniture and follow the Feng Shui Law so I can live safely.

Clear Bedroom Layout (Before)

I create this clean floor plan without a lot of pencil mark on it using an architect simulator, and I think this work pretty well.

Classroom Layout

We has been seperate in group of six, measuring the whole classroom then draw the floor plan out including the table and chairs.

Automation Logic

This is the automation plan I decided to do with in order to save my dad's wallet, me, and the world.

Reflection Of The Project

Improving:

I got a few things I can do better in this project.

First, I want my presentation to have picture more than words so that my presentation more attractive. And in order to make this into a real thing, I can replace most of the text on the canva and replace them with a good-connecting pictures. And I get this idea from the MUN I attended in last year, there is a very good university student over there, and I watched his presentation. His canva was 2 to 3 picture each page, and he uses the picture to tell us the story! Which is VERY impressive and give me the idea to follow him. But unfortunately, I did not get to do this since I did not practice and memorize everything that well, so I need words to help me.

Second, I want to use material science or other science concept to help me to create a stronger solution to my AC low efficiency. Because overall, my plan is also power spending and I want one that can only open AC occasionally so I can support the net zero and the world will be even better. I think a possible way is to add some paddle or foam onto the wall so that it will be more cool keeping and be warm in winter, cool in summer.

Collaboration and feedback:

At the day before I present, I practice with my dad, and while he was laying on the bed listening to my presentation, he reminds me of one important thing, time. Originally, that presentation is about 8 minutes long, but as soon as he reminds me that its a but too long and he want to go to sleep, I check out the rubric on google classroom and this saves my score because I might get a zero on time managing, so I delete a lot of extra pages and words and make everything concise.

How did it connect to other classes:

This project connect with my math class (Math 8), because fortunately, my math first project also connects with floor plan and layout! My project content is to base on a 36m² x 4m room, design it and make it a useful room. I then use the same website I use in the clean bedroom layout, architect simulator, to create a room out. Currently, I had a good process with my teammate Octracil creating a church that contain 4 benches and a stage for the priest.

UNIT 2: "WE" SPACE, CLASSROOM REDESIGN

▲The mood board

Creating The Mood Board

Speaking of mood board, you must be wondering: "What is a mood board? What does it do? How can it help with redesigning student's classroom?" And that is why I am here, explaining what is mood board, the process of creating it, and reflection.

Mood board, is the board of your mood ( yep, that is pretty easy ), which you show yourself, while using color theory and similar-energy pictures to express you, and you want people having the same feeling as you. It is not only a way to tell how did you feel, but more like how can audience feel. Furthermore, this connect with redesigning the classroom because we are going to redesign the material and colors! Therefore, it was essential to learn color theory and color combos in order to use the suitable color for students to learn!

Creating a mood board needs 3 main element : colors, pictures, words ( font ). You definitely thing I am speaking some random nonsense stuff because that is everything to create any poster or project. But not only the "surface" of those elements, we need to link the connection and build atmosphere. Why? Because that is exactly how to transfer your energy to others. Look at the picture on the left, what do you feel? Relaxing, chill, icy, self-space, swimming, cool, etc. That is what I feel when I create this art, and how I want you to feel!!

"One, I put you 1st . Two of everything you deserve .Three wishes, please. Get you diamonds, rub your feet, baby!!"

The music "Checklist" keep repeating in my head, the energetic and refreshing rhythm keeps my good feeling go through all my art. Just like the light blue laser beam, just like ice drop in to a blue soda, just like a swimming in a hot day summer, just like eating shave ice in a most comfortable posture, throwing every complex feeling off my head! Therefore, I use my favorite color, Iris Turquois and apply the analogous (which basically find the target color's neighbor) and founded Comfort Island Reed and Harmony Green. And then, I connect all the imaging feeling's picture, blue lemon soda with ice, a cute little Kirby swimming in a bright, clear ocean, a blue thrilling coca cola, a comfortable laying posture, the album picture of another very good, chilling song, Head in the Cloud , and Max, the singer of Checklist!!

After I finish this, I not only feel my emotion is released, but also proud of myself, since I spend so many effort on this masterpiece!! I think what I did good is that I included similar pictures and I express the cool feeling using relaxing colors and freely style, while most of my audience says it was really great, and have the same feeling with me. But something I can improve is to use more harmony green because I did not use it a lot, and I want to add some more stronger-related text. Though overall, I think I did really well!

Unit 2 Project: Classroom Redesign

In this unit our goal is to:

Draw the layout of the original classroom
Redesign using Floorplan Creator
Make a material change
Make automation that can make our school life easier
Need a presentation for it

because of just using a few quotes is definitely too vague. I am going to explain it one by one.

The Class DQ, Group DQ, and SDGs Connections

Our class driving question is: How can we use scientific principles to design sustainable environments?

This class driving question is really useful because it helps us by giving us direction on what we should do about it. Therefore we discussed together and started to shrink the range and try to make everything specific and easy to understand. After a lot of worksheet writing and discussion we came up with our group driving question.

Our group’s driving question is: How can we use automation and art concepts to make our classroom a comfortable environment for us to learn?

And just like what I said, these two questions connect to each other because we are narrowing the class driving question to make our driving question, so our project connect s to both driving question.

For the SDGs connection, we choose SDGs 9 and SDGs11.

SDGs 9 is “Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure” and this connects to our project because our project aims at designing an automation logic by ourselves, and it is easy to make.

Not only with SDG 9, there's actually SDG 9b. SDG 9b is basically telling us to keep all the resources within your nationality without letting any of the money or valuable stuff leak to others. To make it easier to understand( and speak in human language), it basically just means that we need to keep our resources still in Taiwan and use the resources or the staff in Taiwan. Therefore all of our material will be bought in Taiwan using Shopee and we will make sure that the good is not MIC but MIT. Also if there are any technical problems, we will ask Mr. Bran, who is our teacher and very good at electrical stuff, or Mr. Daniel, who is very good at art principles and Feng Shui.

SDGs 11 is Sustainable Cities and Communities it connects to our project because our project is to keep the white board clean which makes the teachers and students teach and learn easier. Also this helps make everything safer and sustainable because our electricity supply will be from a battery, not an outlet.

The Before Classroom Layout

This before classroom layout is created by Lianne, one of my teammates. She uses a lot of furniture online and puts them into the floor plan creator. In 3D mode we can clearly see all the furnitures in the classroom, which is mostly the same as the classroom we have in reality.

The After Classroom Layout

Ailsa redesigned and thought about all of the furniture and the Feng Shui concept.

She added a new reading area at the back of the classroom because this will help students to have their time for reading. There are a lot of people in our class that don't like to read. Instead, they are using their reading time to chat or to play games. Therefore with this reading area, teachers can tell students, or ask people who do not behave well, to go to the back of the classroom and focus on their book.

Also you can see that we moved the table because the original table was at the arc. There is a little negative area, which is not good for flow and energy. By moving it into the four groups of tables, the flow can move more easily and smoothly. As for the trapezoid table, teachers can view everyone from it, and at the back, which is Ms. Pamela's table, she can also see everything.

Material changes

Material changes are also a very important part because our goal is to change materials with their features and make the students' lives and teachers' lives easier and safer.

There are three changes we decided to make.

We will change the wooden table into the Kartell Bubble Club Table, Green table. The reason is not only because it is looking not that boring or not easy to get sleepy, but also the color can last longer and have longer durability because marks and inks are not that easy to show on green.
We will change the hard plastic chair into Alfi High Back Chair, Sand. It is way softer and a bit bouncy. The reason why we choose this instead of the original one is because all of our teammates have had the experience of sitting on the seat and later our butts feel itchy and hurt a lot.
We changed the white cotton curtain into the Light Blue Curtains. Because with the wall that should be light blue, and it will pair with it. Also the sky in the outside view can perfectly match the color, which makes everything look wonderful, refreshing, and energetic.

Automation Logic

Our product is an automatic whiteboard eraser and therefore our automation logic chart will look like the picture at your left or the text below.

Start → Input: timer and magnet sensor → If it is the set time and there is ink on the whiteboard→ Turn the eraser on→ End

Reflections

What Could I Improve?

The thing that I can improve is that:

I want to add more connection with my mood board, which is in the presentation, because the mood board needs to have a link with the product or the material changes. I don't think I did a really good job, since for the color part, I did not add a lot of details.

I hope that next time I'll restart it with a better chart or a diagram to show everything clearly and easily for readers/listeners.

I would like to finish my work on time or just more timely so that I can have more time preparing and rehearsing because it's actually pretty tight. I almost cannot finish all the group work. I feel stressed and I don't want this to happen on the next project, which is the exhibition one and really important. Maybe I will try to move it, in my mind, 2 days or 1 day before the deadline so I can remind myself, "Oh I need to finish this."

Collaboration and Feedback

Before the presentation I already had a little conversation with my dad. I showed my dad my mood board and the brief information I'm going to talk about. He says that my mood board did pretty well and he pretty much likes it. (Definitely not just because I'm his son) But also because he thinks I should improve the connection with the classroom. My mood board is mostly focused on refreshing and chill. In the classroom, however, we want it to be refreshing, not chill, but focused and energetic.

My color is more cold so I was trying to make my color stronger or simply make it more energetic by using it on different furniture or just adding the color to make it brighter or deeper, making contrast basically. ]

We also have our own practice, or you can say just mock presentations, with our teammates. They spot what we should improve and what details we should add. For example I help Aaron and tell him that we should talk more about logic diagrams and the way that he should introduce the material changes. Well Lianne, tell me that make the furniture and link more clear by using icon and logo design. And that is why we added the little background things and other product photos on the presentation slides.

My Growth from Unit 1 to Unit 2

From Unit 1 to Unit 2 the biggest difference is teamwork and it's also the biggest growth from me. I learned how to communicate with people that need to catch up and I also learned how to encourage people or guide people if they get a problem. I also learned how to discuss since I was always more inclined to do some individual work but now I changed my mind. I found that actually teamwork isn't that bad and it can also reduce stress and deadline tension.

How Does This Connect to Other Classes?

Actually I want to say that I am sure that there are two main connections with other classes.

First it's our product. Our product is actually just a model or you can just say it's a prototype. So that I want to improve it and I can make it out because I already have a blueprint in my mind. I want it to be produced and sold, actually, and maybe just applied in a lot of different schools or just English schools. Since in traditional schools they use a chalkboard but not a whiteboard, that would definitely work.

However the first case is only about my future imagination, therefore, for the second case I want to talk more about mental growth. Just like what I said, I learned teamwork and changed my perspective on facing people who need to catch up. Therefore this will connect to other classes because in other classes or other subjects, when I meet classmates or teammates that really need help, I will not just stand there and scold but I will lead them.

I need leadership. Leadership is so important and I still need improvement in it. I will one day become a very good leader. I will lead my teammates. I will help them finish their goal. At first I need to start little by little so I can start with a group project with my friend, then with strangers, then with new students, and eventually I hope that I can have good leadership.

This is useful because it's not only at work or during study time but it can also be in the family when I want to be the one that helps my family members to walk off from some service scenario.

DOING THE IG POST

Annie and I volunteered to do the IG post, so we discussed together and created 3 version of the canva IG posts using canva ( Which is listed down there).

IG POST - together

In this IG post, Annie and I worked together and designed it. We both think that this one is easy and simple.

IG POST - Annie

Annie redesign the elements and the order of some words in this one. This one is also very simple because the purpose of the IG post is to tell people the information and to come visit our exhibition.

IG POST - Raymond

I, Raymond, designed this one. I was very satisfied and I tried to make it look like a combination of all the elements. For example in the cube, I posted three pictures: the ecosystem, the automation, and the art concept. In the background I focused most on the creativity part.

I also designed it to look like a music album because I was listening to some music recently. Therefore this inspired me and I made it look like this. Ice Cube's Lethal Injection Inspired me by the way.

EXHIBITION PROJECT GSP

In the exhibition project, we are solving a problem in a place in Taiwan. We need to make the problem disappear using our solution things by ourselves. And our topic is about SDGs 9 and SDGs 11.

Here are the activities we have done: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ac2wKjIl8PDq-1ybF13Tv5YwjC3vDf-zGv_mIUAEq1Q/edit?usp=sharing

The Brainstorm

Before we choose where the problem is and what we should solve, we need to make a brainstorm plan. We first think about what problems related to SDGs 11 and 9 might exist and can be solved. Then we list out all of them and find out which places fit the problem.

After some discussion we found that crazy traffic, which is unsafe public transport might be the most ideal question we can choose. That's why we decided to use "unsafe public transport" as our main problem.

After browsing through the Taiwan Google Map, we find out that the Zhongzhen Crossroad is the one with the fitting situation.

And so that it be the place we chose.

The Survey

To gather information from others' opinion of our project, we need to make a survey to collect opinions and advice on people's struggle at the crossroad.

So we created the google form together, write 8 questions in it. Feel free to check all of them out.

We askes problems from different aspect, roles of the society, their opinion, advices, and stuffs that can be datas if we want to get further.

The Presentation of Survey

After gathering all the answers and feedback and advices from the survey, we separated the work for each other to find out who should be analyzing what question's results. Mine are question numbers 3 and 6, which are about the problem that crossroads have the most of and what advice people want to give to governments.

We received a lot of resource results. For question number 3 most people think that rule breakers and too many cars are the main problem. For question 6 most people want to have brighter colors and better signs in order to make road breakers not that crazy and be more ordered so everyone can be noticed.

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