Bags and emergency houses

This last lecture is more design focused. Our tasks today were designing bags and emergency housing in the event of a natural disaster.

The bag designing was alright, but I liked my emergency housing design more.



Here's a scan of my bag design. The top one has heaps of compartments that fold out, since I like to keep the things in my bag in categories so that everything's easier to find.

The second one is more of a portable cupboard than a bag though. Which could be made from carbon fibre for strength and lightness.

Below is the emergency housing design.


It's more of a small makeshift community housing design, because I think that in a natural disaster it's a good time to pull the community together and help each other out. It's something that people don't normally do until disaster hits and it's a good time for bonding.

My favourite part of it is the fire pit in the middle where all the cooking and whatnot happens and the box beds.

I think box beds are great because they keep you very warm in the winter since it's like sleeping in a closet and gives you a bit of privacy as well. (Wikipedia, 2011)

And that ends the Math and Art paper.



Feedback time:

It was so boring that the mind oscillates between falling asleep and contemplating suicide.

Improvements could be made to prevent this.

This paper could have been synced with studio to show us how math and art is relevant to what we're doing and really let us take something important away from the lectures.

Whether you're an artist or a programmer it is highly likely that you're here to make something amazing. To appeal to this the paper could do something better with the presentation of course material. Rather than saying "Here's this theory/random observation, let's test it out by doing this, this, and that which does not particularly interest you." it would be better if it was like this "Hey guys, make something that has this, this and that. Now that you've made something cool let's see what math and art has to do with it."

Do NOT set up the desks and chairs highschool classroom style. It ruins the atmosphere by making it seem strict and serious, which is what a highschool classroom does. It is restricting and conditions the mind to automatically think "I'm supposed to be bored and wanting to go home right now."


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References:

Wikipedia. (2011). Box-bed. Retrieved October 17, 2011 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box-bed