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On May 23, What Design Can Do launched their Climate Action Challenge along with their partners the IKEA Foundation<\/a> and the Autodesk Foundation<\/a>.\u00a0As research partner for the challenge,\u00a0we conducted four months of research before crafting the briefs and background information package. We\u00a0also helped run a live 36-hour Design Jam during What Design Can Do 2017 last week for students and young professionals.<\/p>\n

The Climate Action Design Jam was a jam-packed, 36-hour bonanza of brainstorming, ideation, prototyping and pitching. The goal of the jam was to come up with ideas for designs that could be submitted to this year\u2019s Climate Action Challenge. Over four workshops spread across two days, a total of 16 experts coached students and young professionals on: how to approach the problem of climate change adaptation; how to brainstorm effectively; why you should prototype; and how to pitch and present to an audience. The result was an array of ingenious solutions for our changing climate, from eating plankton to using children to generate energy.<\/p>\n

ADAPTING TO CLIMATE CHANGE\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Although most climate-themed competitions focus on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, the Challenge asks designers to instead think about how we can adapt to the consequences<\/em> of climate change. Of course, the best ideas help to reduce carbon emissions too. But as climate change is already here, we thought it was high time we thought about how we can cope with the effects, rather than only its causes.<\/p>\n

To help the jam participants understand this angle, Liz McKeon from the IKEA Foundation<\/a> and Paige Rodgers from the Autodesk Foundation<\/a>\u00a0explained their foundation\u2019s work and the kind of ideas they were looking for. Their presentations showed how many people around the world are already experiencing devastating disasters such as droughts and storms, causing hunger, health problems and worsening poverty. This was a helpful reminder for those of us from Western Europe: since our region hasn\u2019t seen truly catastrophic consequences of climate change yet, it\u2019s often easy to forget that climate change is already wreaking havoc.<\/p>\n

THE BRIEFING GENERATOR\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Next up, Bas and I\u00a0introduced our unique\u00a0\u2018briefing generator\u2019<\/a>. Participants can\u00a0pick one of four design strategies (storytelling, products & spaces, services and systems), then one of five topics (food, water, housing, energy, health) and finally their region. These three variables generate a customised\u00a0brief that allows any kind of designer to tackle problems close to them.<\/p>\n

IDEATION<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the second workshop, IDEATE, we had a fascinating presentation from Jeroen van Erp, founding partner at design firm Fabrique <\/a>and professor at TU Delft, on how to create a creative concept. \u201cCreativity is a leap of faith,\u201d he concluded, showing a clip of an action movie hero flying off a cliff in their car.<\/p>\n

Anna Kinneir from Makerversity<\/a>, a community of maker businesses, was also on hand with boxes of materials (everything from good ol\u2019 tape, paper and scissors to glue guns and a 3D printer), and she encouraged participants to prototype their idea.<\/p>\n

After that, teams got down to work. They had until 8pm that night to select one idea, refine the details, and check that it fulfilled all the criteria of the challenge: innovative, practical, scalable, feasible\u2026 and of course, exciting!<\/p>\n

TAKING AWAY THE CLUTTER<\/strong><\/p>\n

On the second day, participants regrouped to find out what the rest of their team had cooked up overnight \u2014 some looked a little underslept! We then held the MAKE workshop, where we had Pepijn Zurburg from De Designpolitie<\/a> describe how to visually communicate an idea, using his past work. His advice? \u201cTake away the clutter. Take away as much as you can so that you\u2019re only left with the bare essentials.\u201d<\/p>\n

Our final speaker was Tara Philips of Cause and Affect Speeches<\/a>, who gave some tips for public speaking: don\u2019t look at the floor, speak super s-l-o-w-l-y, and do some embarrassing facial expression exercises in the toilet beforehand to stop your jaw clenching up!<\/p>\n

PITCHING THE RESULTS<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the end we had eight different teams pitching their prototypes. Some of the ideas presented were: rooftop gardening with a marketplace for surplus vegetables on every street; a trampoline that captures kinetic energy as children jump on it; houses with a detachable \u2018core survival unit\u2019 that floats off in\u00a0a flood; an elevated platform in Dutch cities to remind residents that they live below\u00a0sea level (and to provide refuge in the event of a deluge of seawater); and a campaign to encourage people to \u2018grow up\u2019 and wean themselves off eating meat just as they did with a pacifier as a toddler.<\/p>\n

The winning team, Water Tank, came up with a rainwater storage tank for areas prone to drought. Although there are already many existing water tanks, the judges liked the fact that the design was open-source and could be built with local materials and no high-tech skills, which could be key to helping it spread.<\/p>\n

The team \u2014 Aryan Javaherian, Pim van Baarsen and Vandana Bailur \u2014 won a year\u2019s membership to the Makerversity co-working space and workshop to prototype before they submit it to the Challenge.<\/p>\n

They \u2014 and you \u2014 only have until August 21st to enter, so get cracking<\/a>!<\/p>\n

This Thought\u00a0was initially posted on What Design Can Do’s blog<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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