Name: Mehr Un Nisa Javed
Date: 9th October’2019
Professor: Marcela Godoy
Objective: Post the trash awareness video made on campus and make a poster for informing the students about the trash awareness campaign and finally, share thoughts on the talk by the guest lecturer.
Poster for trasher awareness campaign
Video for trasher awareness campaign- research done on NYUSH, Campus and talk with the property management.
We talked to the Lujiazui property manager and he guided about how the trash is sorted out in the campus. He also explained when asked about the new initiative of the metal cups on campus. He said, that it definitely reduced the plastic waste on campus.He also told us about the times where the trash is sorted out and how much time it takes the ayis to sort out our trash mess.
We also went to the top floors where there were management and faculty offices. We wanted to compare the trash sorting practices on the top floors and we also wanted to see if their trash cans are different from the students trash cans or not. Upon, investigation we found out that they had similar trash cans as the students and they also had made mistakes while trash sorting. For instance, they had put metal in the paper area etc.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kBoO54Mq2tAhDIGwLf1sOsZb3Qr7jOFF/view
UseDem Guest Lecture:
About the speaker: She is Russian, lived in Shanghai for 8 years and founder of UseDem.
Take Away from the Talk:
UseDem is a company which works with up-cycling.All their products are produced with cooperation of Chinese retired and disabled community. The founder says, that it was totally accidental to work with these people however, now she really appreciates them working for her as she keeps them busy and happy and at the same time, they get paid. Also, such people have been working with her for more than 1.5 years successfully therefore, she is trying to increase such workforce as they have influenced her way of designing because she keeps her designs simple now for such people to work easily on them.
UseDem is able to save at least 500 pair of jeans every year which means 55,00,000 liters of water is saved every year. She really loves this work and encourages other people to join her in this work because as she said “for some people its waste and for us its up-cycling”. I would love to get involved in such an initiative and in future I would also, try to, if possible start my own startup which works on up-cycling because we do not just have to think of ourselves but our future generations as well. Moreover, I would love to take their logo further as I really appreciate the concept behind it which is, by creativity we connect people and then protect the environment.
Class Activity: 9/10/19
For this class activity we worked in pairs. Me and my partner worked on ironing. What we did was that first we checked the poster pasted in the Lab for seeing the temperature required for different types of plastic. After finding the plastic bags with the right label we used a bag and cut its smiley sign and logo to and pasted it with the help of hot iron onto another plastic bag. We did this to have an end product which could be used a diary cover. Here are the results;
Process:
End Result:
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