work

  • Citizen Centred Services: New Forms in Public Space Recycling
    2015

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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...

  • platFORM class
    2013

    platFORM 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....

  • Sustainer
    2013

    The 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...

  • Spatterdashes
    2012

    Lower Body Cycling Weather Protection

    How can 'casual’ riders (that don’t wear cycle gear), be encouraged to ride in wet weather with the aid of a new product that doesn’t fit into the classic ‘cycle gear’ category?

    The challenge was to create a product the spoke to the convenience and speed of cycling in urban core. With the population of cities increasing, real solutions to cycling problems are going to be needed.

  • Compost Collective
    2012

    Compost Collective was a project done at CityStudio to address Vancouver's Greenest City Initiative. We ran three pilot projects in downtown Vancouver where we experimented with methods on how to engage with multi family buildings and how to get them diverting food scraps from the landfill. 

    Team: Jesi...

  • Junior Design Office
    2012

    Junior Design Office
    This case study explores a project Andreas Eiken and I co-developed in response to our design education. Junior Design Office brings student designers and social enterprises together to work on projects that would not otherwise be executed using design in the summer. 

    Project founders: Andreas Eiken, Maia Rowan 
    Team: Jesi Carson, Warren Cheng, Aida Rezaei