How can design help to reduce energy consumption at home and make electricity visible?
We face a lack of energy resources and a significant price increase. Finding new energy resources, ways of limiting the intensive use of energy, and re- prioritizing our energy needs is therefore crucial.
[Em]power is a Low Tech and Off-Grid washing machine, which questions new making processes and sustainable materials while highlighting a collaborative and transversal system between the designer, fab labs and users.
Through giving users an understanding of how the machine is built and assembled
[Em]power aims to strengthen their relationship to it. By promoting DIY and RIY, people can repair the machine easily, increase its lifecycle and take complete ownership of the object.
The purpose of [Em]power is to reduce energy usein the making process, be independent of industrial systems by creating our own objects and energy, and ultimately to facilitate and democratise the use of clean energies.
Methods: + Questionnaire and Probes, Immersive experience, Sketches, Card Mockup, Adhocism, Hacking, Co Design, Workshops, 3D rendering, Prototyping, Reiteration
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2017