Remade In China

Schedule

For a quick way to find me, go to the IMA Slack and find the channel #remade-in-china-f21,
follow this link to join.
Weekly assignments are due before the next class.

Understanding the Problem:

Material Research:

Prototyping:

Final Production:

DAY 1 – Wednesday, September 1 

TOPIC: Introduction / Service Learning Orientation

Introduction

DISCUSSION TOPICS:

  • What is trash? Where does it go? How does it affect our environment
  • Going Green (How to reduce your garbage)

Screening: Bag It

HOMEWORK:

Check it out here.

DAY 2 – Wednesday, September 8

TOPIC: What’s Sustainability? Recycling or Reusing?

Plastic types, what we can recycle?
Precious Plastic Project
Find the slides here.

Talk: 闫新玉 – Waste Sorting in Shanghai

DISCUSSION TOPICS:

  • What’s sustainability?
  • Prepare to discuss on the film you watched.

WORKSHOP:

Zero Waste Shanghai – Composting

HOMEWORK:

Check it out here.

DAY 3 – Wednesday, September 15 

TOPIC: BEFORE PLASTICS…

Plastic history
Find the slides here

Talk: Gabriele Tempesta – Design for People: Human Centered and Sustainable Design

DISCUSSION TOPICS:

  • Plastic’s predecessors
  • A life without plastic?

WORKSHOP:

plastic bags recycling (tutorial)

HOMEWORK:

Check it out here.

Extra Day – Saturday, September 18 

Community Workshops: In groups, you will conduct a workshop to teach members of the community about the waste problem and how they can recycle plastic bags.

 

DAY 4 – Wednesday, September 22 

TOPIC: Material Research: Bioplastics

Bioplastics. Find the slides here.

DISCUSSION TOPICS:

  • Improving on Nature
  • Sustainable materials

CASE STUDY PRESENTATIONS

WORKSHOP:

Bioplastic 

HOMEWORK:

Check it out here.

DAY 5 – Wednesday, September 29 

TOPIC: Exhibition and Research Presentations

HOMEWORK:

Exhibition post guidelines.

DAY 6 – Wednesday, October 13

TOPIC: Material Research: Products using recycled materials

Find the slides here

Waste management tools and technologies
NYUSH trash facilities tour

DISCUSSION TOPICS:

  • Sustainable Fashion
  • Future technologies

CASE STUDY PRESENTATIONS

WORKSHOP:

Heat Press and extrusion techniques

HOMEWORK:

Check it out here.

DAY 7: Wednesday, October 20 

TOPIC: Material Research: Working with materials and Tools

DISCUSSION TOPICS:

  • Future technologies – What is good design?

CASE STUDY PRESENTATIONS

WORKSHOP:

Digital Fabrication

HOMEWORK:

Check it out here.

DAY 8: Wednesday, October 27

TOPIC: Material Research: Presentation of Experiments

Design Principles.

CASE STUDY PRESENTATIONS

DISCUSSION TOPICS:

  • Design For Social Impact
  • Responsible Design

HOMEWORK:

Check it out here.

DAY 9 – Wednesday, November 3

TOPIC: Prototyping: Working day

CASE STUDY PRESENTATIONS

DISCUSSION TOPICS:

  • Plastic Fashion
  • Sustainable Fashion

HOMEWORK:

Check it out here.

DAY 10 – Wednesday, November 10

TOPIC: Prototyping: Working day

Guest Talk: Xenia Sidorenko

CASE STUDY PRESENTATIONS

DISCUSSION TOPICS:

  • Design: Ethics
  • Cradle to Cradle/Upcycle
  • Made to be wasted

DAY 11 – Wednesday, November 17 

TOPIC: Prototyping: Presentation of Prototypes

HOMEWORK:

Check it out here.

DAY 12 – Wednesday, November 24

TOPIC: Final Production – Working day

HOMEWORK:

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DAY 13 – Wednesday, December 1

TOPIC: Final Production – Working day

Invite the community partners one week in advance. Provide the final name list and guest phone number to Marcela and Chunhao by Dec 6th. Check out the schedule below and invite them to come at the time of your presentation.
Reflect in your journal this week how the community engagement experience impacted you in the following aspects. Please be detailed and thoughtful. You may also refer to the questions here for inspiration.

Personal Growth: what strengths and weaknesses did you learn about yourself? How are you different now?
Civic Engagement: what did you learn about the approaches of working on a project? For example, teamwork, communication, understanding needs, etc.
Academic Learning: where did the community experience align or not align with the academic content? What have you learned as a result? In the presentation:The presentation is a formal project demonstration open to the whole school community. So it should live up to professional standards, including both the content and delivery. Make sure you practice beforehand.
One section of the presentation should be a summary of each member’s reflection journals from above.Presentations will follow this order:

1) 1:30-2:00 – neighborhood committee
2) 2:00-2:30 – mature garden
3) 2:30-3:00 – art ladies
4) 3:00-3:30 – new garden

Presentations shouldn’t be longer than 20 mins.

In the previous assignment you were asked to prepare a video. You can present the progress and achievements of your research using this video, since this is a better way to display information for Chinese and English speakers. As for the reflections, you can talk about them in english, because these are more important to understand for the entire class than the community partner.

 

DAY 14 – Wednesday, December 8

Final presentations: Rubric

HOMEWORK:

Project documentation and final reflections post.
Check out the guidelines here.