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Context
A two year design research partnership with a local governing body (Metro Vancouver) explored the role of participatory design in the creation of a service touch-point aimed at decreasing contamination in the streams of waste that are recycled in public city...
Andreas Eiken
Bio
work
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2015 -
2013platFORM is a collaborative product development class for design and business students from Emily Carr University of Art and Design and Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University. The students work in trans-disciplinary teams to develop products, services, and systems that address contemporary social, economic, and environmental issues. Student projects are addressing issues such as sustainable travel, social isolation, textile waste, cosmetics packaging, and food packaging....
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2013The inspiration for this project came from the excessive amount of disposable food containers being thrown out each day. The problem space then became 'what is preventing people from bringing their own reusable container with them when they get meals to go?'.
Sustainer is a reminder-based mobile app paired with a re-usable food container aimed to help reduce waste caused by disposable to-go food containers. The app and container are designed together as a cohesive...
