Social Design: Photos from Free Water Campaign

Social Design: Go Green at TU

http://www.towson.edu/adminfinance/gogreen/

The donated cups to be distributed on campus tomorrow come courtesy of Go Green.
Towson's Go Green mission statement:

"We are dedicated to building sustainability on our campus and in the greater community through conservation practices ranging from energy initiatives to composting programs. We strive to build awareness about sustainability, and we challenge all students, faculty and staff members to do the same. By utilizing one of our recycling bins, assisting in one of our energy reduction programs, or choosing to take one of our free public transportation offerings to get to campus, we can make our environment a cleaner and more sustainable place to live, work and learn. The world won’t wait for you to get involved. Go green today."

Go Green has graciously donated over 100 reusable cups to be distributed around campus in my effort to promote the use of water fountains and reusable water bottles vs buying disposable plastic bottles.
Thank you Go Green!

Social Design: My Project

The signs I will be posting around campus to guide people to water fountains:

I will be handing out FREE cups, courtesy of Go Green at TU (see other post for more info) next to each water fountain.

Each cup will have a slip of paper in it:

Step 1: Open Lid
Step 2: Fill Cup
Step 3: Close Cup
Step 4: Enjoy your FREE water
*877 plastic water bottles are wasted, littered or incinerated every second

Step 1: Open Lid
Step 2: Fill Cup
Step 3: Close Cup
Step 4: Enjoy your FREE water
*The cost of one case of bottled water could supply a person in Africa with clean, safe drinking water for a year

Step 1: Open Lid
Step 2: Fill Cup
Step 3: Close Cup
Step 4: Enjoy your FREE water
*Every year over $100 Billion dollars is spent on bottled water world-wide

Step 1: Open Lid
Step 2: Fill Cup
Step 3: Close Cup
Step 4: Enjoy your FREE water
*Bottles used to package water take over 1,000 years to bio-degrade and if incinerated, they produce toxic fumes

Step 1: Open Lid
Step 2: Fill Cup
Step 3: Close Cup
Step 4: Enjoy your FREE water
*U.S. landfills are overflowing with 2 million tons of discarded water bottles alone

Step 1: Open Lid
Step 2: Fill Cup
Step 3: Close Cup
Step 4: Enjoy your FREE water
*The average American spends over $100 per year on bottled water

Social Design: Bottled Water Resources

This website for "The Water Project" educates people on the statistics of water bottle usage and the water conditions of people around the world. We Americans have the luxury of CHOOSING to BUY bottled water instead of drinking the free and safe water available to us in our own homes.
http://thewaterproject.org/
This website educates people on the statistics of using and wasting resources, namely containers. this includes glass, plastic, etc. Its goal is to promote recycling.
http://www.container-recycling.org/facts/plastic/bottledwater.htm

Materials: Animal, Vegetable, Mineral

Animal:

1. silk
2. wool
3. leather
4. feathers
5. gelatin
6. bones
7. insects (butterflies)
8. hair
9. glycerin
10. eggshell

Vegetable:

1. leaves
2. onion skins
3. lettuce ends
4. grass
5. bark
6. mold
7. moss
8. ivy/vines/weeds
9. beans
10. wood

Mineral:

1. talc (baby powder)
2. graphite
3. sugar
4. salt
5. tums (calcium carbonate)
6. glass
7. copper
8. charcoal
9. baking soda
10. quartz

Social Design: Water Fountain App

http://www.treehugger.com/gadgets/need-drinking-water-fountain-theres-app.html
App for iPhone that tracks where the closest water fountain is.

Social Design: Funny Notices

Social Design- Baltimore

 Crazy Traffic cones, set up so poorly they were creating traffic jams at every on ramp

 Litter at every corner

 Empty and overgrown lots, scattered throughout the city

 Alleyway, filled with potted plants. An Urban Garden.

 "Urban Garden"

 Mosaic and Urban Garden

 Mosaic on side of building

  Mosaic and Urban Garden

 Mosaic on side of building

Social Design: Guerrilla Marketing

http://guerilla-art.wikidot.com/what-is-guerilla-art

Social Design: Guerrilla Marketing

Guerrilla marketing is an advertising strategy in which low-cost unconventional means (graffiti, sticker bombing, flash mobs) are utilized, often in a localized fashion or large network of individual cells, to convey or promote a product or an idea.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrilla_marketing

Social Design: NY Times 9/6

Article: Pushed by Obama, Democrats Alter Platform Over Jerusalem

• criticism to restore language in the platform to say that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel
• statement was removed in 2008 to maintain consistent between views of Obama and the Democratic party
• Romney consistently said that Jerusalem is the capital
• "the political status of Jerusalem is one of the most contentious issues in any potential peace settlement between the Israelis and the Palistinians, with both the Israeli and Palistinian authority asserting that the holy city is their capital"
• "Jerusalem is for all of us"
• as a young jewish american, i struggle with Israel issues frequently. on one hand, i do believe that Israel is the Jewish state, yadda, yadda, but also, i agree with the quote saying that Israel is for all of us.

Social Issues

• censorship
• bullying
• smoking and tobacco use
• unemployment
• poverty
• recycling
• ignorance 

Social Issues

-Plastic water bottles

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/5208645/Drowning-in-plastic-The-Great-Pacific-Garbage-Patch-is-twice-the-size-of-France.html
-The dead zone in the ocean

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4624359/ns/us_news-environment/t/dead-zones-counted-oceans/#.UEihko2PWSo
-Lion Fish and killing the reefs

http://www.liontamerusa.com/quick%20facts.htm
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Research Design Thinking and Design Skills

What is ‘design thinking’? 

Design Thinking refers to the methods and processes for investigating ill-defined problems, acquiring information, analyzing knowledge, and positing solutions in the design and planning fields. As a style of thinking, it is generally considered the ability to combine empathy for the context of a problem, creativity in the generation of insights and solutions, andrationality to analyze and fit solutions to the context. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_thinking

Design Thinking is a mindset.
Design Thinking is the confidence that everyone can be part of creating a more desirable future, and a process to take action when faced with a difficult challenge. 

http://designthinkingforeducators.com/

Basically Design thinking consists of four key elements:

1. Define the problem

2. Create and consider many options

3. Refine selected directions

4.Pick the winner, excecutehttp://www.fastcompany.com/919258/design-thinking-what

What is creativity? 

Creativity is defined as the tendency to generate or recognize ideas, alternatives, or possibilities that may be useful in solving problems, communicating with others, and entertaining ourselves and others. 

http://www.csun.edu/~vcpsy00h/creativity/define.htm

Creativity refers to the invention or origination of any new thing (a product, solution, artwork, literary work, joke, etc.) that has value. "New" may refer to the individual creator or the society or domain within which novelty occurs. "Valuable", similarly, may be defined in a variety of ways

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creativity

cre·a·tiv·i·ty

   [kree-ey-tiv-i-tee, kree-uh-]  Show IPA

noun

1.

the state or quality of being creative.

2.

the ability to transcend traditional ideas, rules, patterns,relationships, or the like, and to create meaningful newideas, forms, methods, interpretations, etc.; originality,progressiveness, or imagination: the need for creativity inmodern industry; creativity in the performing arts.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/creativity

Materials-Martí Guixé Clock

1. What is your Archetype object
Wall Clock
2. Artists name

Martí Guixé

3. Image of the work

4. URL where found
http://www.droog.com/store/accessories/blank-wall-clock/
5. Materials used. How are the materials used differently than what we have come to
expect from this object?
painted steel with whiteboard function, whiteboard pen added
7. What do you think the artist was trying to convey?
I think the artist wanted the viewer to make the clock into whatever they want it to be.
8. How do you think it is perceived by the viewer/user? Humorous? Serious? Thought provoking?
I think it is percieved as Thought provoking and encourages creativity.

Materials-Sonodesign Clock

1. What is your Archetype object
Wall Clock
2. Artists name
Sonodesign
3. Image of the work

4. URL where found
http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/8/view/7886/sonodesign-the-clock-i-cant-see.html
5. Materials used. How are the materials used differently than what we have come to
expect from this object?
Toughened glass-i think the material isnt necessarily that unique for a clock
7. What do you think the artist was trying to convey?
The artist was probably trying to convey that you dont need the numbers to read the clock.
8. How do you think it is perceived by the viewer/user? Humorous? Serious? Thought provoking?
This is a humorous clock that I think would be a great "conversation starter".

Materials-BGM Project Clock

1. What is your Archetype object?
Wall Clock
2. Artists name
BGM Project
3. Image of the work

4. URL where found
http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/8/view/8556/bgm-project-daily-life-wall-clock.html
5. Materials used. How are the materials used differently than what we have come to
expect from this object?
Not listed.
7. What do you think the artist was trying to convey?
I think the artist was trying to show that clocks dont need to use hands or numbers, but can be made up of anything while still conveying the time of day.
8. How do you think it is perceived by the viewer/user? Humorous? Serious? Thought provoking?
I think it is percieved as cute as well as thought provoking. I think of it as the "circle of life" in a way.

Materials-Ponoko Material options

Plyable Materials:
Cardboard-http://www.ponoko.com/make-and-sell/show-material/260-cardboard-natural
White Corrugated Cardboard-http://www.ponoko.com/make-and-sell/show-material/146-corrugated-cardboard-white-one-side
Red Cardstock-http://www.ponoko.com/make-and-sell/show-material/388-cardstock-red

Sturdy Materials:
Bamboo-http://www.ponoko.com/make-and-sell/show-material/388-cardstock-red
Veneer Core (Birch)-http://www.ponoko.com/make-and-sell/show-material/388-cardstock-red

What is Social Design?

What is Social Design?
Design and strategic design thinking that contributes to improving the social well-being of people and society, making people's lives better.
http://socialdesigner.com/
Who practices Social Design?
Social design is and up and coming discipline- MICA (the Maryland Institute College of Art) now offers a Masters program  for social designers. Social Designers can be architects, fashion designers, installation artists, or essentially from any medium of art.
http://www.micasocialdesign.com/
Towson's sustainable buildings:
http://www.towson.edu/adminfinance/gogreen/greencampus/buildings.asp
"The College of Liberal Arts (CLA) building utilizes recycled materials from the Lida Lee Tall demolition. Nearly 93% of the Lida Lee Tall building was recycled, with much of it being reused on site"
A popular example is Tom's Shoes:
http://www.toms.com/our-movement/
Andrew Mikhael-installation piece:
http://andrewmikhael.com/social-parking#/i/3
Urban installation, origami:
http://www.socialdesignmagazine.com/en/site/visual/urban-origami-installations.html