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Week 07 Creative Improvisation in Design Process: Trash-Workshop

In this workshop Helena Jakoube gave us four tasks in which she challenged our creativity regarding to our own trash, we collected the past three weeks.

The first two task asked us to analyze our trash and try to figure out if we learned something new about ourselves through that.

The third task was to try to find ideas regarding three possible approaches to deal with this collected trash: 1. To raise awareness; 2. To recycle; 3. To develop a concept. 

The fourth task asked us to execute this idea and to develop some product in one hour.  I looked at my trash a thought, what could be a quick solution, that could be executed in one hour. I looked at a Tesco Smoothie bottle, that was standing right in front of me. Through some additional research on the internet I figured a way to solve the problem of reusing plastic bags, that were accumulating throughout the weeks in my flat. I built a DIY plastic bag dispenser (as seen on the picture on the right). The second product evolved out of a Coca Cola bottle. Because the bottom part of the bottom has nicely rounded edges, I tried to cut out small spoons – and it worked. 

Miles Davis