Lab+2


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Lab 2**

===**1. Under each of the six categories, shelter, health, water, education, energy and transport, choose one project which interests you. For each category, describe how it is designed to alleviate poverty for the project's stakeholders. (6 categories x 1 paragraph = 6 paragraphs)**===


 * a) Shelter: Global Village Shelter**

Gobal Village Shelter is an easy to deploy, biodegradable temporary shelter put in places such as Afghanistan, Pakistan, Southern Asia, and the United states. It assists countries where war or natural disasters have affected living conditions and provides safety and stability using easy set up shelters for people I need of them all around the world. The shelters provided are very efficient in a variety of ways, not only are they durable and stable, but it does not require tools to set up, while also it is fire-resistant and waterproof, serving as a temporary house for those without one. Global Village Shelter helps alleviate poverty for people in war torn countries and who have been dramatically affected by natural disasters such as tsunamis, earthquakes, fires, and floods.


 * b) Health: Lifestraw**

Lifestraw is an effective water purifier, which enables any surface of water to be healthy enough to consume by human beings. Water is essential to life and unfortunately many are unable to drink water on a daily basis from a healthy purified source. Lifestraw removes harmful pathogens and waterborne diseases so that we are able to consume it. Not only is lifestraw cost effective, but it amazingly small, simple to use, and mobile, thus allowing anyone to carry it with them wherever they please. Lifestraw’s goal is provide clean water for everyone and with this product it certainly reaches areas around the world where clean water is an issue.


 * c) Water: Water Storage System**

Many countries around the world experience droughts throughout seasons, which unfortunately cause a variety of problems. The water storage system seeks to alleviate poverty with the use of its product, which is able to hold 10,000 liters of water in a plastic bag gathered during the rainy seasons and monsoons that have taken place in the area. The water storage system is available for domestic and small plot micro-irrigation for Indian farmers during its dry season. It is highly cost effective and prevents evaporation of the water by firstly placing it in the a durable plastic bag and than enclosing it in a hand-dug pit.


 * d) Education: One Laptop Per Child**

Children have been given the opportunity to access education at the tip of their fingers since the development of One Laptop per Child. The laptop targets children in developing countries, introducing them to learning, information, and communication tools. Considering the unstable environmental conditions of developing countries, the laptop was designed to suit the regions making it durable. One Laptop per Child exposes these children to opportunities that was at one point in time was unavailable (or non existent) to them such as learning and gaining knowledge from one another. Such innovations are part of the many bricks that will create bridges from the developed countries to the developing.


 * e) Energy**

Haiti has depended on the production of wood charcoal for cooking fuel, leading to 90% deforestation. This has lead to respiratory infections in children causing them to die. As a result, the investment in sugarcane charcoal has been developed to decrease the death rates and deforestation. This is done by burning, carbonizing the waste product of the sugarcane known as bagasse, and mixing it with a binder and then compacting it into sugarcane charcoal briquettes. Sugarcane charcoal is just as effective as wood choarcoal resulting in no difference in fuel production, and less harm to the environment and population.


 * f) Transport: Q drum**

Q Drum is a container designed to transport 75 L of water by means of rolling it rather than carrying it. This is ideal for developing countries such as Africa since water sources are a great distance away from their homes. This drum prevents many diseases that are exposed to them since they won't be forced to feed on unclean, and contaminated water. This design reduces burden caused by carrying heavy loads of water for habitants of the developing countries.

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** 2. How does stakeholder analysis enable sustainable and socially responsible design? **
Designs must be effective, cost-effective, and meet the needs of the user. A Stakeholder analysis provides designers with the perspective to understand and accommodate the user so that a user will find it to be practical, effective, and easy to use. Furthermore, a stakeholder analysis address the problems, those affected, solutions, target group, and the needs involved. Suing this information, a designer has a clear perspective of what type of design is needed and therefore can focus on solving those issues.

**3. List five characteristics of socially responsible product design.**
1) Meets a users need 2) Cost-effective 3) Easy to understand/use 4) Address the main issue 5) Keep in mind, environments, limitations, and other factors that may hinder the use of the product and design.