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Studio Week 12 - 14

Ya girl is about to summarise three weeks of work according to her vague memory of it and lack of photos - leggo!

Week 12

All I remember was us three working our butts off on assignments for our electives. In addition to this I had a meltdown and poor Franz and Kelsea (and now that I think about it Reza and Austin too lol) had an earful about how crap group work in my electives were. We were on track with studio though - animation done, door hanger design drafted and branches were sourced. Door hangers were laser cut later on the week but we did not make enough. Will be returning to do some more. Sorry and thank you Matt.

Week 13

Our intended branches started shedding bark so we had to look for others at our local forest - Albert Park. Poked Reza in the face a few times. By accident I must mention. I was no longer crying over my elective assignments - yipee. Moved furniture and painted some walls. Kicked a table and bruised - no biggie. Stole a table from the 9th floor - no biggie. Started installing. Did some vinyl cut outs. Came into uni after a 4am shift at work to put these vinyls up. Fixed our software issue. Created our two headpieces. Set up is somewhat finished. Boom. Photo below.

Spent the last few days writing our statements. Just completed and submitted. Sizzle sizzle.

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Proud of the work that we’ve done. It involved a lot of generative research, group testing, and group discussion. I thought we had a good group dynamic where we played to each others strength and everyone heavily involved in the process and decision making.

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Studio Week 8 - 10

Week 8

After our last get together during the break, Austin and Reza began to power through all the drawing elements. Austin would then compile these drawings into our landscape and upload it to drive for me to begin animating. It was a tedious job getting the drawings at the right scale and thickness of lines and also the composition of where the drawings went was essential. Bad elements must have an opposite in the good world. For example a landfill in the bad world is overlaid with a lush native forest in the good.

Drawings were slowly being completed however there was no rush, as I was completely new to After Effects so it gave me time to stumble through it and work things out myself.

Week 9

Things were starting to take shape and we were able to test our filters properly - having more detailed drawings. We noticed lines that crossed over each other completely vanished with either filter creating odd white spaces in our animation. We played with blending modes to fix this. The tv screens were also showing different colours to my computer screen and as a result we spent time fiddling with the tv screen settings to get the colours showing at its purest form.

Drawings at this stage were still being produced. The more elements I added to the landscape, the more chaotic and laggy my laptop got. The visual chaos was welcomed as without filters it is hard to decipher what is being shown.

Week 10

Mid Week 9 I went down to Wellington to attend WoW. The boys had completed all the drawing by Monday - all that was left was for me to animate. I however had last minute things occur thus I did not complete animation until I got back. I completed animations by Tuesday studio however there were a few things that needed adjusting such as the train. With a majority of the animation being complete, Austin and I tested and found the perfect screen settings and blending modes for our filters to completely cancel out the required colours and the result is amazing.

Excuse the small gif don’t want to give away too much :)

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Studio | The Break

In our 14 week timeline, we had scheduled our two weeks break to focus on completing prototyping and production. So far we have been on track with our timeline and hope to meet our fake deadline - 2 weeks before submission. This will give us time to fine-tune details and room for any troubleshooting to do.

Break Week 1

We came together on Monday to draft out our landscapes. We incorporated elements that occurred from all our focus groups along with trends in the world to shape our Utopia and Dystopia Auckland. Austin began the rough draft of the landscape.

Reza also began the prototype for the door hanger reminders as part of a keepsake we will be offering with our exhibition. I produced an initial bag helmet we will be using - which has been done so that any alarm bells for health and safety issues are removed. Our feedback we received in class Week 7 suggested our theme was ‘weak’, thus we spent some time discussing our theme and intentions of our exhibition, to create and solidifying our idea with our research we have done for 3 weeks to back it all up.

Week 2

With a rough drawing completed and better quality cellophane, we tested how well the colours cancelled out as well as details of the drawings. This was all done on a bigger screen which we hope to be using at showcase. We realised that the cellophane was just not doing a good enough job and sought out for higher quality thicker ‘cellophane’ used in theatres as light filters.

After a quick Google search, I found a place quite close by uni that sold these light filters by the roll. A quick walk down the road got ourselves a swatch booklet - which we found at least 4 different shades that did the job of colour cancelling.

We have narrowed it down to a couple of shades, but will wait for more drawings to be completed before making a purchase as we found the tv screen displayed the colours differently from Austin’s laptop.

The elements of our city were divvied up between Austin and Reza and I will be doing my best to add the little animations we will have in our project. Two more bag helmets were prototyped today and was worn by me for 10 mins and I’m still alive :)

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To add on the door hanger prototype. The prototyping process was done in low fidelity with printed paper (down below). These were giving among my mum's friends who are also parents and do live in the convenience culture. This prototype was done over the span of two weeks to see if there had been any changes.

Through this prototype, I did observations and also would catch up with them on how they were doing and if it had any effect. Through my observation, I started to see my parents change a few their old habits. They started to incorporate reusable bags. Although it wasn’t a 100 percent transition to no plastic bags the main goal to help them change old habits and form new ones. Touching base on the other parents. Some informed me that they did start using reusable bags. A small minority said that I have not used reusable bags in their lifestyle but found other alternatives like using cardboard boxes. I found this a success as the door hangers did its purpose. I was worried after prototyping was done that they would go back to their bad habits. luckily it was a half and a half. I found that some left their bags in the boot of their car so that they would not need to think about it when they leave the house. Some went back to their old way with the occasions of remembering their reusable bags.

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Finding artist model

Since we have created our concept we needed artist models to stick to an art style that Austin and myself can base our drawings off and so that there is consistency in the illustrations. To find art/illustration style we seek interest as there is a lot of content to collect. Something that we establish as a group was that we wanted to keep it to line art. This was because we wanted to keep the blue and red. We knew it was going to be difficult because with line art we often lose detail in the illustrations. But a counter-argument is that it is possible through old art technique of etching. Due to time constraint, etching is what we want to achieve but we have to find another way of achieving the effect. This skill needs a lot of time and practice to incorporate into our projects. The below is our folder of art style.

The illustrations below was something we wanted to achieve. We wanted to focus our art style like ‘pli’ as the finer details achieved by using lines to create the contours in a landscape. For me it creates depth with lines and also it creates the illustration more dynamic and creates movement.

The ones above was something that I liked as it had the simple clean look. It’s the modern line art illustrations. The illustration does so well due to its composition, the thickness of line and simplicity.

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GreenPrint Studios Austin, Jolie and Reza

Studio | Week 7 Presentation

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I was somewhat left frustrated after our presentation as some of the feedback we received, we have already researched or prototyped to mitigate any problems. However due to the time limit we were unable to communicate our doings as well as our concept properly. The team and I are confident with our concept and plan to go through with our idea regardless.

Plastic bags will be gone by next year - choose a topic that has more longevity.

“Your project will no longer be relevant next year when their are no more plastic bags.”

Yes plastic bags will be gone by next year and that’s great news. Our project however is not solely just about the plastic bag ban. The multiple case studies we’ve done can tell you that New Zealand is far behind other countries in terms of getting our waste and sustainability sorted. Plastic bags are only the tip of the iceberg and through our project, we are using plastic bags as a literal tool to unveil a better future; as this ban can be seen as the first step towards a greener future for New Zealand.

Plastic bags put over people’s heads are a big no-no.

The audience showcase brings in are usually mature people and sometimes these mature people bring their kids. We expect these mature people to know the dangers of plastic bags over their heads. We also expect them not to allow their kids try it. We have also created prototypes to remove any sort of danger such as cutting the bag short to fall above the nose, thus suffocation is a no-no.

The irony behind the plastic bag helmet is that people are so caught up with their own health and safety, yet the real consequences of plastic bags on the environment and poor sea creatures (not the turtles!!!) are ignored. I can ramble on a lot more symbolism that will make my high school English teacher proud - but I’ll save it for now :)

Have you considered sustainable door hangers

We had yet to prototype our door hangers prior to the presentation. We were glad this was brought up and will explore more deeply.

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I assume that everyone in the group was left frustrated. Reflecting back at our presentation there were a couple of things that we did leave out. Although there was a limitation of 5 minutes for our presence there are a lot of things that we could do for next time. I think we left us less time explaining what our actual idea is and we spent a lot of the presentation on the build-up so it made our lecturer think that plastic bag was our primary focus. Like Jolie said we’re using it as a tip of the iceberg to unveil habitual change in Auckland.

With the second comment, I completely understand where they're coming from. However, going from Jolie's comment, we also designed the bags to cover the head and no more. We love the meaning and irony with the viewer putting the plastic bag on top of their heads.

Another feedback we took away was the limitation of our work being able to be seen by people. This is because we also designed it for the open studio but when you think about it, we are able to display to more people in public spaces like museums, Motat, and libraries.

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Studio | Week 6

I caught up with both Austin and Reza who informed me about their findings from the focus groups and interview they did at the end of last week. Again a big thanks to both the boys who arranged these meetings.

It was rather interesting to see how complex the younger generation think about our future. There is a heavy use of technology in ‘their future’ and only a handful of kids mentioned the natural environment in their drawings. Is this due to how rapid technology advances or do these kids use too much technology? We did talk to Year 3 students though - so were kind of expecting quite wild responses.

Reza and Austin were able to arrange an interview with Hayden from Sea Cleaners. Being at the forefront of waste in NZ, his perspective on the whole waste issue in NZ was really refreshing and insightful to hear about. I have reblogged both Austin’s posts that go into more detail - this saves me from repeating information.

Having conducted four focus groups and interviews, we broke down all the themes and challenges that arose from each activity.

After these were plucked out, we began to find recurring themes and other connections between related topics - across all four interviews we conducted. We did this to find common ground between all four discover tools. These were organised through a flowchart.

To break down our chart - we started off each branch with a large challenge/theme. The red lines indicates negative effects and green are positive effects or possible solutions.

From here on we started to delve deeper into ‘solutions’ (green lines) and discussed whether they have already been introduced or being used in other countries. This was so we could find an area that has room for us to work in - similar to finding a niche market you could say.

We found the area of habitual change was a sentiment a lot of our interviewees shared; as well as those keyboard warriors on social media that have expressed their distaste on the bag ban. We came with a concept, broke down the elements and steps and then planned for prototyping.

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This was the interpret phase. Many themes that arise which is a blessing and a curse. It means that we have gathered a lot of insight with the opportunity for change. We decided to narrow our scope to habit change due to our hunch that we wanted to carry but it was also reinforced by the case study research that we’ve done which focused on creating a green culture which involved habit change. Conducting our interview it was something that Captian David kept on emphasizing.

With our insights, we were able to create our concept of visual overload. The reason for this about immersing our viewers in the waste world visual but have the option to filter out different perspective. We were inspired by an Instagram artist insane51art, who would paint two murals with two layers. To uncover what each one looks like they would need to filter them out with a red filter or blue filter. There often a juxtaposing message of good and bad, life or death. This was something that we wanted to emulate with our concept as we had a perspective from children which Jolie mentioned was technologically driven and having natural environment still flourish on the earth.

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Studio | Research

This is only a very small proportion of research we have done. Just to shed some light on NZ’s current waste crisis.

Hooked on Plastic, 2018

Last year sold 41 million kilo of used plastic overseas - January China stops buying our plastic.

Convenience culture - single use plastic, along with other unnecessary packaging

“Out of sight, out of mind” - priority is to reduce waste, recycling is only part of the solution

30 years ago was the last waste crisis - goal was to reduce waste however has not happened

Approx. family of four produces 3 tonnes of waste a year

Govt looking into taxing companies for the disposal of their products and supporting local companies who can deal with our waste

Countdown has banned the sales of single use plastic straws - working single use bags out of the system too

Issue with biodegradable and compostable bags - there are no regulations therefore cannot prove if the bags actually break down

1 News. (2018, July 15). Hooked on Plastic [Video file.] Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y39W_FZN7dg

Recycling in Auckland, 2016

2016 - Aucklander’s send 230,000 tonnes of waste to landfills each year.

140,000 tonnes of waste can be diverted from landfills if recycled correctly.

From July 2016, all of Auckland’s recycling is done by Visy, Onehunga.

They received more than 200 truck deliveries of recyclable waste a day.

Auckland Council. (2016, July 4). Visy Recycling Educational Video | Auckland Council. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFuD4V0-2fo

Auckland Waste Management, 2018

Since 2010 (first WMMP plan was in 2012) Auckland has achieved: household waste dropped by 10% – from 160kg/person in 2010 to 144kg/person in 2016. Waste from our own administrative offices dropped by 30%.

Household waste to landfill is dropping, but commercial waste to landfill grew significantly between 2010 and 2016, largely due to a spike in construction and demolition waste. The amount of plastic and organic waste going to landfills has also increased.

It is estimated that in 2016, Aucklanders threw away between $15 million and $73 million of recyclable materials.

In 2016 14% of total waste to landfill came from kerbside collections. There was a significant increase in food waste. 130,000 tonnes was thrown to landfill.

Auckland Council. (2018). Auckland Waste Management and Minimisation Plan 2018. Retrieved from https://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/plans-projects-policies-reports-bylaws/our-plans-strategies/topic-based-plans-strategies/environmental-plans-strategies/docswastemanagementplan/auckland-waste-management-minimisation-plan.pdf

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This was a series of case studies that were compiled by Jolie, Austin and myself. This was done mostly in the ‘define’ phase.

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The Children may be the Future but they sure as hell don’t know the Future

On Friday I took a trip to Rm 7 Henderson Primary School to gain some insight in terms of what the children see the future being. The reason for doing this is that we thought it would be effective to tug on parents heartstrings by showing them what their children want the future to be. I instructed the kids to draw what they though the future would be. It became apparent very quickly that this wasn’t how 8-9 year olds work and need a lot more stimulation to work. At this age, they find it very hard to connect the past with what they know now to come up with a vision of the future. After all the students returned to their seats with a sheet of paper it immediately became clear that I had dropped them in the deep end. Thankfully, the teacher of the class identified this and began a class discussion. She asked the students about transportation, housing, technology etc. If I was doing this again I would take the students away in small groups of 2-4 and have personal discussions with them. Doing this would keep ideas isolated to the group so I would likely get a wider range of answers. With the group discussion I found that if a student suggested an idea, everyone would stay with that idea until the teacher would push the discussion on. There was a strong theme of everything being made of chocolate in the future. Regardless there were a few students that ended up coming up with a few really unique alternative futures that I couldn’t have come up with by interviewing adults. Some of these included: Houses being filled with hovering devices that allowed people to float through their homes, Banks being literal giant piggy banks and girls have mustaches in the future.

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Looking at all the drawings that were produced by these kids we stupid they did, however, gave us insights on what their future would look like. Let's just say that media have taken over some of these kids.

The reason why we chose to co-design with kids was influenced by a video campaign where they got children and adults to describe what the future would be like. Of course, the children's future was very optimistic which was filled was nature and people smiling. The adults were very dull and it was very pessimistic. This was something that we wanted to find and see what children are actually envisioned. We could base a lot of the content on that video but there could be a certain limitation of the amount of detail and information that is put out in the video. The only way that we can pull content is through observation. Also, another limitation is that these are actors. Which means that have a script so it might have been very bias.

I will do a separate post on it with me on understanding and analysis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqeiQktBJ-s

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A Good Yarn

Early this morning Reza and I conducted an interview with Captain Hayden Smith from Sea Cleaners, an organisation that goes around Auckland’s coastlines every day to collect waste. We thought that he would be a really good person to talk to since he was at the front line of what happens when waste disposal goes wrong. We were not aware of this but it turned out that Sea Cleaners actually worked with Foodstuffs to create the Bag Vote last year that asked customers if they would want to see a phase-out of plastic bags. Through this partnership, Foodstuffs began phasing out single-use plastic bags which then gave the government a foundation to implement the plastic bag ban. I personally found this really interesting as previously we believed that the only way that change within businesses could be achieved with government intervention. In this case however, Foodstuffs acted first. The reason they did this is that over the past 4 years, they had been building a relationship with Sea Cleaners so that they can be associated with the company and as a condition Sea Cleaners had Foodstuffs conduct the Bag Vote. By being associated with Sea Cleaners, Foodstuffs can be presented as a more environmentally active company which is good in the consumer’s eyes.

We asked him what his opinion was as to why people generally don’t care about how they dispose of waste. His response was that people don’t actually see the piles of rubbish as generally, the environments that people populate are clean. i.e. streets, offices, schools. however all of the rubbish actually ends up in oceans, forests etc. “We see the unseen” Other views that he had was that he’d like to see container deposits opened up to include anything with a bar-code. This way, even if people do litter, you could have kids picking rubbish off streets for pocket money. He did acknowledge the difficulty of logistics with this though. He also said that in an ideal world he would like to see that everyone picks up one piece of rubbish a day. This would also implement values of correct waste management and reduce the chance of them littering with their own waste. In terms of our installation, he expressed his satisfaction with most installations that use salvaged waste to build something, saying that at the end of the day it’s still rubbish and will eventually end up in landfill. He mentioned that he’s talked with schools who wanted to create artwork around sustainability and that he heavily advocated for painting murals to promote change. This is definitely something to keep in mind for our own project.

When asked what the best alternative for plastic bags are he said that cloth bags are the best alternative but when that’s not available, cardboard boxes provided by supermarkets are an environmentally conscious option.

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Like Austin mentioned we were fortunate enough to take 30 minutes of Captain Hayden Smith’s time who is very experienced in his industry as he plays a pivotal role for sea cleaners.

I felt like this was an insightful morning with different things to keep in mind with our projects and opportunities that we could potentially focus on.

The main takeaways that I got from Hayden were:

Sea cleaners played a big role to create the Bag Vote with food staff. I thought that this was interesting because we thought that it was heavily involved with the government. Behind the scenes, it was about building relationships for 4 years between the organisation (Sea Cleaners) and business (Foodstuff). I thought one this was a good move for Foodstuff which gave them a good rep in the public eye. However, he did say that some of the company resulted in back to using plastic due to demand. This further reinforced our hunch, with informing parent to get out of the convenience culture lifestyle.

I also like the analogy of a plastic bag ban as the tip of the ice burg. Although it’s a small step, it’s something that we could use as a conversational starter. It means that people including business and government have started to realise. It’s also something we can build upon and there is an opportunity to educate. With our initial assumptions and concept, we did feel like there was an area were are able to educate to help them transition before the actual ban happens. This way when the day where businesses don't supply bags the consumer have already implement a lifestyle where that is not a problem.

Another insight that we go was about people not caring. I thought Austin explanation was exactly what I would have written. It’s all about being immersed in the environment. He talks about, seeing the unseen every single day. Once you're immersed in the environment is really easy to change your habits.

Lastly, we expressed that our initial concept was creating an installation but did not want to be generic in terms of outcome, mindset, and approach. His view on installations about waste is that the intention is great but at the end of the day it still goes to landfill. He expressed about educating kids not through reusing trash to create sculpture but for them to create murals to promote change. That way they would always have a big image encouraging the young to “pick up rubbish” so they are immersed in the environment of becoming more proactive about taking care of the environment.

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Shifting our directions

With our efforts of contacting the Auckland Council and some selected local businesses it was unfortunate, we did not hear from them back. Due to our constraint of time, we need to shift our direction and move forward and find something else. Our second option was to target the consumer. Consumers play a pivotal role in what is produced due to demand. If we are able to inform them to make a better decision and be conscious not just about the environment but also what they buy.

Going back to the drawing board we had to figure out ; - who is our audience? - What do we want them to take away from our project? - The experience.

Before that, I saw a post saying New Zealand is banning single-use plastic for next year. I found that this had relevance to our topic and is something that we could use to base off. My group discusses this topic and we found that it was good as a start. Although it felt like it was a small change, through our assumption it would have a big impact on the convenience culture. This is something that I wanted to test out for myself. This was a test that I wanted to see for personal reasons and just curious to see. Something that I plan to do is when I go shopping I will try not to use the plastic bags and try to either bring a reusable bag or use cardboard boxes. My next step is to also learn how to recycle like rinsing milk bottles before putting it in the bin.

Going back to the topic we discussed who we wanted to target and we decided on parents. Parents right now have the power to choose what they buy. It’s also about informing them to take better action so that’s a behavioral trait that can transfer to their children.

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Initial analysis

Going from the last post of Buddy being a home companion, one thing that Bluefrog robots claim that Buddy helps elderlies with ‘loneliness and isolation’. This was an interesting observation that I pinpointed out. From what was discuss in class Ricardo showed us a video of Negroponte OLPC initiative to solve education in underdeveloping countries. This was initiative was not successful in the long run with many factors not high considered. Something that was interesting was a picture that was shown.

I thought this was an interesting image as it raises the question of ; Does the product solve the issue? Is it claiming to do one thing but is actually doing another?

The reason why I highlighted it helps with loneliness and isolation is that once I read the functions of buddy those two questions do pop up. Blue frog robotics claim can ensure the wellbeing of senior citizens at home by providing social interaction. Buddy will remind them of upcoming events, appointments and deliveries. Where is the social interaction? What is a social interaction? It also claims that it can ease loneliness by seniors with social interaction. With Buddy, seniors can access communication technology, like Skype and Facetime. This is an action in which we need two parties in order to be done successfully. There is more of a user response on the other end to pick up.

This was just one window that I looked at that Buddy claims to help but it’s actually doing something different.

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Studio | Week 4 | Interview run-through observations

In order for our interviews to run on a timely matter and also gather the desired information and insights we would like, before we even interview our actual experts - Reza and I spent Wednesday testing and tweaking our interview flow/method, to ensure we get the best results.

First run-through: Year 2 students x and x

Along with the caricature drawing, ask them to write their names at the top so we can refer to them throughout interview - making it personal, forming a bond

Draw 3 adjectives that best describes them - changed to writing as deciphering their drawings was a bit difficult, also could see hesitation in drawing, slowing down the time

Draw your dream - changed to write and also draw - again hesitation/unsure of what/how to draw - slowing time down

The two images we provided were small - in the real interview have bigger copies

Getting the students to explain their post it after each post it again slowed down the process - but also lead to their thinking being the same - they both ended up with similar endings to their story however started off in different directions.

The first run-through was a bit rocky as it was our first. It was also my first time seeing the flow so I could only observe at this stage. The interview took about 15-20 minute however the two who volunteered found the whole process new and fun. The second run-through implemented our minor tweaks and I was more involved.

Second run-through: Year 1 students Erin, Jacob and Georgia

3 adjectives to describe yourself - changed to 3 positive words you associate yourself or best describes you

Explanation of the ‘two places’ needed to be fleshed out more - quite vague

On the second question ‘Draw a challenge you would face’ all three paused for a bit, hesitating about what/how to draw the scenario - reassured they could just write a sentence.

Question four was met with confusion - we tried to reword/rephrase it however realised that this question was no longer needed as it broke the flow of the story our volunteers were telling

Have headings for each post it/question so that it’s easier for them to retell/explain their story to us without us prompting was question there were up to

Through the second run-through we thought that the ice breaker in the beginning, we should also join in as a way to create a bond with our volunteers; joining in on the fun, making it a little more personal. Giving them the option to write and draw their answer was a better move, as there was little hesitation when answering our question. Interview took approx. 15 minutes.

Third run-through: Year 3 students Sarah, AJ and Nathan

With facilitators joining the ice breaker, it set up a good, light and fun atmosphere.

The option of writing and drawing was successful - some did both to better communicate themselves.

Removing question four, now meant we had a concluded story.

After completing all story post its, we then asked them to explain their story. This resulted in very diverse thinking compared to our first run through, where they heard each others thoughts and somehow their answers were similar to each others.

Having headers for their post its made it easier for them to retell their stories.

This interview ran very smoothly, there were minor flaws we need to work on however we are confident that the actual interviews will go well. I never knew prototyping an interview was a thing, but now I see it as a vital step.

Buddy the house hold companions

Looking at some of the questions that Ricardo gave to us to consider when looking for information about our social robots. A question that that was presented to me an obvious one to answer is what this piece of the machine trying to do or solve. What is its sole purpose? Going from the reading that we examine is goes into what a door really is. It give’s the reader new perspective on how we look at the thing. A door is literally a hole in a wall. Transferring that to Buddy, by the producers it is described as a home companion, sought to improve your daily life. If we look into the definition of ‘companion’ we get “ a person or animal with whom one spends a lot of time or with whom one travels. ” from Google. In my personal opinion feel like this definition can be misleading as it has to be a person or an animal. Looking at other definitions its one that accompanies an individual. Looking at it at a macro sense Buddy does do what it's supposed to do.

This is just another initial thought that I had relating the social robot to the reading that was given to us. My next step is going to dive into a deeper question a lot of the features, functionality purpose. Questioning I feel can alter one's perspective and also change our definition.

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Generative design research-Iteration 3

Gathering all the insights from the previous testing Jolie created a word documenting and outline what we needed to do on our third interview.

The third interview we found was much smoother and the expert followed the instructions with ease. We feel like we’re ready to interview our expert which are the local business owner and AKL council.

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Generative design research-Iteration 2

With our ice-breaker, we found that our changes worked well, but we found that the expert found it our to associate themselves to adjectives. to move on from this for our next test trial, it would be things that they would associate with.

With the changes to the activities, we found that it did go well and it did improve the overall experience of the activity. Something that we found at the end of the activity was the answers that were given. We found that the second to last question altered the overall solution. The last post it did had very little relation to the first two answer, in which we thought was important. We found that is was the case of too much is not always the answer. For our next trial, we would cut down the question which altered the end solution.

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Testing out research methods - Activity

In terms of the activity, my goal was to find out what they would change personally to help progress to the goal of 2040 zero waste. My approach to this is to create more of a storyline toolkit. Something that will optimize their expression of a story (C.Toolbox). Creating a current situation and creating a flow to achieve a goal. Gathering structure insights from the icebreaker we will use visuals, words and verbal elements to express their thinking.

What I went for was fill in the blanks. The experts will be given the current situation (waste crisis) and in the end, they want to achieve AC 2040 zero waste goal. Being the facilitator, I will give the question in which they will have to answer on a post it. After they would answer the question they would need to give a reason why.

What we found out was the importance of Framing the question. The question that I started with was abit vague so I found myself clarifying what I needed them to do.

The second one was making the experts explained what they drew each time. We found this time to consume and also the other person became influential to the other person. This made their answers very similar as they agreed with the points that the other person made.

For our next interaction, something that we need to improve is the frame of the question and also make them explain and articulate their thoughts at the end.

Elizabeth, B. N, Sanders. PJ, Stappers. (2016) Convivial Toolbox. Generative Research For the front end of design. Amsterdam, Netherland: BIS Publishers.

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Testing out research methods - Intro

As we are still in our discovery phase we sought to interview people from the Auckland council responsible for the 2040 zero waste initiative and some local business owner in the CBD. Other than just talking to them and doing an interview. I wanted to come up with activities so that we are able to get more of rich answers. Although we can obverse, what they say is often not what they feel and think. from the activities the activity I create, I want the interviewee to dig deeper into their emotions and thought to answer the question/scenario.

To help me create the activity is from the convivial toolbox. I order for the people to be creative and pour things from their hearts and head to create a positive stimulus.

The first activity is just an intro about the individual. The first thing they had to do was draw a caricature of themselves in a positive way. Second, was to draw three positive adjectives you see yourself and explain why. Then draw a goal or a dream you want to achieve.

From the participant's feedback and feed from Jolie who was observing, this activity played out really well. My goal for this was to get the participant to really dig deeper within them and honest on how they perceive themselves in a positive way. My reason for this is to give them a sense of familiarity and making the atmosphere abit more casual and positive(C.Toolbox, 2016). allowing this to share their goals/dream from what observed allowed them to be very anecdotal telling them their personal story given insight about the person they are. It was interesting too how they were able to articulate their reasons also. Also, the activities played well as a whole and were able to gather insights there was the thing we needed to adjust and change the structure of.

In our first iteration, I made the participant draw their adjectives. What Jolie observe was that sometimes the participant's couldn't draw they wanted due to lack of drawing skill and resorted to one image to use as symbolism. Something that was suggested was the ability to draw or write is down. This would take off the pressure. Also, one this that we needed to change was the explaining part. We found that explaining it one at a time took too long. We decided to push the explanation to end so they are able to say everything in one go.

Elizabeth, B. N, Sanders. PJ, Stappers. (2016) Convivial Toolbox. Generative Research For the front end of design. Amsterdam, Netherland: BIS Publishers.

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