The online magazine, eGFI, a publication of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), has just published a story about our collaboration with RISD. Take a look.
http://students.egfi-k12.org/waste-for-life-making-trash-useful/
The online magazine, eGFI, a publication of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), has just published a story about our collaboration with RISD. Take a look.
http://students.egfi-k12.org/waste-for-life-making-trash-useful/
The UWA hotpress is not exactly in action yet – lacking the electrical work and some minor tweaking – but enough is there to see what changes Derek Goad has made to Darko’s original design. Take a look specifically at the counterweight that allows the press to open like a clamshell and, especially, the way [...]
Responding to emergency needs in the wake of recent disasters in Haiti and Chile, Carlos Levinton and his group at the CEP (Centro Experimental de la Produccion) have been developing architectural + social models that address the ecological and economic disruptions which disproportionately affect society’s poorest members. His Tire House is an example of CEP [...]
In conjunction with a winter semester 2010 course being taught by Joshua Pearce at Queens University, MECH 425 – Engineering for Sustainable Development, senior Nate Preston is reviewing, evaluating, and illustrating the Kingston Hotpress design via a public Appropredia wiki. His astute insights can be found here.
Brainstorming – What do we have? Where do we go?
Our homework from last class was to get together in groups and brainstorm products. The following ideas emerged: bags, toilet seat covers, guitar picks, plastic Armstrong bracelet, book covers, floor mats, pencil cases, baskets and totes, flippers, floor tiles.
However the PROBLEM is that all these products [...]
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Today at Smith, looking at the Waste For Life book we gathered that the mission of WFL is to promote poverty reducing solutions to environmental problems. With that in mind, we decided that our mission for the Waste For Life project in Buenos Aires would be to brainstorm product ideas.
Our mission [...]
Students at RISD have done a significant amount of material investigation many of which are collected in a set on the RISD-Waste4Life Flickr site. And attached are recipes of some of the most salient experiments.
RISD-W4L Recipes
Some members of our team in Lesotho, Australia, Italy, United States and Canada have been working to put together a proposal to the Global Environmental Facility Small Grants Program GEF-SGP administered by UNDP Lesotho. The project proposal is in the final stages and it is likely to be funded very soon. The project involves 8 [...]
The 2010 Engineering, Social Justice, and Peace Conference has been scheduled for August 4-6, 2010 at the Royal Society of Arts and Manufacture in London, UK. The conference will be co-hosted with the RSA Design and Society project. Please go to the ESJP website (http://esjp.org) for further details.
During the 2009-2010 academic year the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) joins the Waste for Life effort through a number of on-campus initiatives.