Process: We held a meeting 27/10 where we discussed our current project plans direction. It was at this stage just a scenario with a lot of proposed areas to look into, where the scenario built on a entirely new city built from 3D-printers and adopted for 3D-printers. Where we wanted to see what such a city could look like, possibilities we could find. We played with the idea that you wouldn't have to adapt to the old design structures and boundaries of current societies and construction methods. E.g. customization and diversity would be greater. Here we found several interesting areas for which 3D-printing technology are developing: Houses, transportation, recycling, production, food industry, biomimicry, printing biological materials, materials in development and lego structure. We started this meeting by deciding what areas we wanted to look into. Over the weekend after our first meeting with Daniel and Malin we had planned to pick one area the next week and look into those we found more interesting during the weekend, and then pitch ideas during our next meeting. We shrunk the list to two main areas and formed two ideas.
One where we used the same scenario with the 3D-city for 3D-printing where we wanted to focus on a sustainable city with recycling stations combined with 3D-printers, where everything could be recycled and resources where more valued.
And the other idea for which we would focus on modular building structures, where you would just replace a small part of a device when a better upgrade came out, instead of changing a whole device. Also when a product broke there would be easier to identify what broke in the device and just change that part.
We decided to combine these two concepts since both had a sustainable nish. After that we mailed 3D-verkstaden to book a 3D-printer for which we want to use on the presentation (since we only can borrow it for 2 weeks). We divided research areas to everyone to look into and booked another meeting for 29/10. Tease were the following research areas: modular production at the moment, future of modular businesses, Recycling, 3D-printed electronics, Open source systems, 3D-printing.
The next meeting we started to share our findings about our research areas and then started to discuss which idea we liked the most. We still had a lot of question marks such as, would it be a product, service or a system? What could the end result look like? We had a hard time visualizing what this project would look like in the end. We came to the conclusion that our idea was too vague because we couldn't visualize what it would look like in the end still after this research. We therefore decided to change direction once again to the very first idea we had before we formed the first project plan, since we could visualize what it could look like in the end and the need felt bigger for that service.
The scenario was to provide aid to exposed societies, to help and rebuild after a catastrophe with mobile 3D-printers. Which would be transported with helicopter or buss in a variety of different 3D-printers to help rebuild destroyed cities by recycling locally found materials. Open source would be used to put out current problem specifications concerning available materials and surroundings in form of vegetation/landscape and weather conditions. This way people could help design suitable solutions and contribute with knowledge in form of 3D-models. This way exposed societies could rebuild faster. Where villagers at the same time could help rebuilding, by gathering materials to recycle and reuse destroyed structure materials.
After finishing the project plan 2.0 we summarized a couple of question marks to think about until our next meeting:
- Should we narrow down even further to focus on either catastrophe areas or just poor third world villages, or keep focusing on both?
- How viable would 3D-printed structures be?
- What are the most crucial needs for exposed people after a catastrophe? how/In what orders will they get managed with 3D-printers?
- How would a complete execution of an expedition look?
- After a completed venture, would 3D-printer get replicated and left behind? who would manage it?
- Energy solutions?
We also planned another meeting for monday next week where we will handle the above mentioned problems and start planning what we will do the following week.
Resources:
3D content: http://www.academia.edu/5862148/Current_Development_and_Future_Trends_of_3D_Printing_Materials_Market
3D food: http://www.cnbc.com/id/101638702#.
Recycling materials: http://3dprintingindustry.com/2014/10/06/3d-reprint-plastic-waste/,
Printing Houses: http://www.wimp.com/printerhouse/
3D content: http://www.academia.edu/5862148/Current_Development_and_Future_Trends_of_3D_Printing_Materials_Market
3D food: http://www.cnbc.com/id/101638702#.
Recycling materials: http://3dprintingindustry.com/2014/10/06/3d-reprint-plastic-waste/,
Printing Houses: http://www.wimp.com/printerhouse/
I can see that you have done a lot of discussing in your group, and decided to go with the idea of using 3D printers to rebuild houses after catastrophes. I think that is good. However, like Daniel reminded you at the meeting, it is also important that you stick to the subject Future of the digital commons. Perhaps this topic is a little bit far away from the subject, but maybe you can work on that.
ReplyDeleteI definitively think that you could narrow down the focus even more.
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