1 / 11

Design For Extreme Affordability

Design For Extreme Affordability. Clinic Session 1 15 November 2011. Kon-41.4012. 15.11.2011. Important Deadlines. 29 Nov Interactive Preliminary Project Plans presentation (40 min per group) 15 min max presentation + 25 min interactive discussion

sybil-arnold
Download Presentation

Design For Extreme Affordability

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Design For Extreme Affordability Clinic Session 1 15 November 2011 Kon-41.4012 15.11.2011

  2. Important Deadlines 29 Nov Interactive Preliminary Project Plans presentation (40 min per group) 15 min max presentation + 25 min interactive discussion 1 Dec Radical Innovation Design seminar – reports due 6 Dec Independence day - no class //8 Dec last class for 2011 26 Jan Project Check Point 2 1 MarchProject Check Point 3 24 AprStudent Final presentations to the class 4 MayPDP Gala– prototype presentations (TBA later)

  3. Call for Abstracts - Deadline 15 December 2011 International conference on Technologies for Sustainable Development: A Way to Reduce Poverty?, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, on 29-31 May 2012 http://cooperation.epfl.ch/2012Tech4Dev • This conference will look at how science and technologies can support both sustainable development and the Millennium Development Goals in developing and emerging countries. • It aims to bring researchers and practitioners together to bridge the gap between scientific research and operational implementation.

  4. Call for Abstracts - Deadline 15 December 2011 • It will focus on collaboration, methodologies, instruments and policies conducive to: - Improving research adapted to the beneficiaries; - Enhancing research practices; - Developing better integrated and interdisciplinary research; - Involving professionals and practitioners in these efforts. The conference targets a public of innovative, talented researchers, doctorates, post-doctorates, students, etc. and practitioners (private sector, public collectivities, representatives from NGOs or international organizations) eager to share their research and project results. The attendance of participants from developing and emerging countries is also strongly encouraged.  

  5. Call for Abstract (cont’d) Submission of abstracts which explore the following themes: • Theme 1: “Appropriate Technology”? Needs and Participation • Theme 2: Towards a Sustainable Integrated Development? Partnership and Systems • Theme 3: Technology: Transfer or Co-Creation? Knowledge Sharing and Empowerment Any contributions dealing with sustainable development related to the generic themes of the conference are also welcome. • - Technologies for sustainable development of habitat and cities • - Information and communication technologies for the environment • - Science and technology for disaster risk reduction • - Technologies for sustainable energy production

  6. Interested? • Abstracts should be submitted before 15 December 2011. • A selection of the best papers presented at the conference will be subject to a further peer-review for publication in an edited volume by Springer-Verlag. • Abstracts can only be submitted online according to instructions, guidelines and template provided at http://cooperation.epfl.ch/2012Tech4Dev/Call-for-Abstracts. Authors are requested to abide to these guidelines. • Registration for the conference itself will open mid-November 2011.

  7. Clinic Session 1: Purpose This session will assist you to develop an overall understanding of your work and the inter-connectedness of the projects.   The activities will be undertaken through: 1. Project specific group work 2. Mixed groups  work

  8. Clinic Session 1: Programme Exercise 1: 7 Why’s (a variant of Tom Gilb’s 5 Why’s) Exercise 2:Tetrad from Marshall McLuhan (4 What’s - about thinking NOT) Exercise 3: Time-lines of Projects vs. Life processes (Why we love projects) Exercise 4: Scenario building encompassing 3 pre-determined interventions(Water filtration, Stove project, and LED)

  9. Exercise 1: 7 Why’s – Root Cause • Ask 7 chained Why’s • Start with your goal • Work from means goal to strategic goal • Fundamental goal is not needed, but clarifies means • No circular answers • No self-evident answers • Stop when common sense dictates

  10. Exercise 2: McLuhan’s Tetrad "We shape our tools and they in turn shape us" — Marshall McLuhan 1. What does the solution enlarge, enhance or make possible? 2. What does the solution erode, obsolete or make irrelevant? 4. What does the solution and it’s effect flip into (reverse into), when pushed to it’s logical conclusion or limit of potential? 3. What does the solutions bringback or borrow that has earlier been obsoleted/forgotten?

  11. THANK YOU!

More Related