New Year New Brief

For our newest brief we are working with a roto moulding company, we were given the hoice to design a portable tempory shelter/storage solution for a UK refugee or to design for water adaption and conservation.

I have chosen to do the later of the two options as the concept of challenging peoples preconceptions is an interesting one for me.

From the mini brief we were to take insperation from key words including shelter, storage, design for manufacture, climate change, roto moulding, refugee and conservation. I found when doing this project that there was almost a circle of scenarios and links which could be made. The one i am chosing to focus on is the aspect that no matter whether it is a natural disaster (ie flood hurrican) or man made distaster (ie war) one aspect of peoples lifes which is always affected is their water supply, which is often contaminated. I want to design a solution which will be able to filter even the dirtiest of water eg flood water to make it safe to wash and drink.

I want to challenge peoples preconceptions about drinking filtered water. For example very few people when asked would drink filtered flood water over something like tap or bottled. I want to challenge these views and promot resourcefullness and conservation of water within society.