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Concepts to stimulate the discarding and separating of waste
Integral design
in collaboration with Manon Plette and Robin van Dorrestein
The Assignment
The 10th main assignment I received was the continuation of our last project, after presenting the concept to the clients the HAN became interested in our approach, to make the disposal of garbage more interactive, and hoped we could continue to work on the concept for a design usable within the HAN.
The product had to be usable both inside and outside, and has to be portable. With the goal of the product being to make the user think about waste, and stimulate them to separate and throw away their garbage.
During this project we have worked together with Grijsen ( http://www.grijsen.nl/ ) and the graphic design bureau of the HAN for production.
The collaboration with Manon Plette and Robin van Dorrestein was a great success past project so we decided to continue with the same team.
The idea
Despite having a large amount of ideas to work with from the past project, it needed to be something suited for the HAN, with the message remaining.
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During a somewhat sadistic mood I thought of an idea concerning the 'How hard can it be' method.
How hard can it be to throw away your garbage is a project experimented on in Den Bosch, making it the user difficult to throw away their garbage by, for example, placing the garbage can on top of a ladder.
Adding a personal twist to this concept I came up with the following idea:
There are three different types of garbage collected at the HAN, consisting of Plastics, Paper and residual waste. So as an effective way of promoting this I decided to work with triangular shaped bins, combining this with notable graphic design to give the user a clear idea of which type of garbage goes where.
To add the 'how hard can it be' thought to the design, I added mountable hoods to the bin that forces the user to throw away their garbage in a challenging manner, making it a challenge to throw away their garbage.
The hoods are dis-mountable so that the units are also usable as a normalunit in case the 'how hard can it be' concept doesn't meet our expectations.
Concept
The next step was working out the product into the details for production.
First we tested a few models for the correct dimensions usable for the HAN.
We tested this by making 1:1 models of the inner bins which had to fit the plastic bags used at the HAN.
And work out different solutions for the unit
Materialisation
After we had a clear idea of how the final unit should look we went to Grijsen in Winterswijk to discuss with Patrick Grijsen the production of the unit. What they could and could not produce. After taking the production possibilities of Grijsen into account we started modeling the unit for prototyping.
We received a few points of attention on the first version we send and after making a few adjustments we send the final drawings for production.
one of the technical drawings
Graphic Design
In collaboration with the design team of the HAN we decided the graphic design for the unit which will be stuck on the unit.
Graphic design for the Paper side
Renders
Rendered into the HAN
Without hoods
Production
Currently a prototype is in production by Grijsen, the estimated completion being in the next couple of months (expected July 2017]. When the production is finished the prototype will be put in use and tested.
Reflection
A great project to end my lessons on the HAN with. Working together with companies and professionals and being given the opportunity to realize my innovative design was a great experience. The collaboration with Manon and Robin was great, just as the collaboration with the HAN, Grijsen and the design department went.
I can't wait until the prototype is completed and gets put into use for us to test.
In the end a fun and interesting project I have learned a great deal from and worked on a professional level.
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03/04/2017 Aloïs Veltkamp
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