TRÄ
PRODUCT SERVICE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
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Alessandro Andreoni, Dorotea Anfossi, Elia Crippa, Mathew Spialtini, Luis Zarco García and Sergio Navarro Hernández
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Product design, Interactive Design and Service Design
Understanding
CONTEXT
Higher education in 2037 won’t be relegated to grandstanding universities, but it will be directly embedded in the social tissues and available for everyone.
In those times, marked by the uncertainty and the unpredictable changes deriving from the effects of climate change, along with a great trust in technology shared by people of any modification, challenge-based projects will provide trained volunteers the opportunities to shape their future.
Method
WORKFLOW
Who we are…
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We design to preserve the future not only to improve the present: nothing we do should damage the future and we strive to fix the damages that have already been done. To create a stable and durable connection between citizens and forest. To intervene in danger situation, working on prevention rather than repairing damage. It’s a challenge-based mechanism. To preserve nature.
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Create a product service system that allows man to safeguard and learn to perceive the forest system by communicating with it, addressing the challenges brought about by climate change.
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A future in which there is synergy between individual communities and the forest environment, to create an ecosystem that is responsive and sensitive to the changes it will undergo.
Real sized prototype installed in the tree.
What
PROPOSAL
The Trä Unit is a single device placed on a tree that collects data and represents the tree status through the movements of its pattern, while the Trä Hub is a tool that can be placed among a restricted number of trees already equipped with Trä Units, intended to make it visible how the trees behave in confrontation with each other.
Based on the data collected by the products above, a digitally supported network will mirror the existing connection among the roots of the trees and will promptly alert the volunteers whenever a natural calamity could be harming a forest, promoting a quick and effective reaction.
Functionality
PEACE OF MIND
A slow and harmonious movement, the flakes of the pattern flip row after row, reproducing a wave-inspired motion. The pattern transmits serenity and balance.
DISTRESS
Quick and repetitive movement; each flake of the pattern flips simultaneously. The pattern transmits a sense of anxiety and pressure.
Who participates?
SYSTEM MAP
Who participates?
PERSONAS
Who participates?
SYSTEM MAP
INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE
How
How
