photos of 1:1 scale model

reflection

This assignment was another challenge, designing a product service system was harder than just a product because in my opinion (at least with our garden) i think the best pss would eliminate the need for designing a new product. I think using a combination of existing parts would have been a lot more sensible but of course Industrial Design means we must design a poduct. I also struggled with the whole notion of being sustainable because real sustainability comes from a societal change and i couldn't help but feel some of the feedback comments throughout the day were flawed. If we must design a product then you must realise that Industrial design can only be so sustainable/ ecofriendly, an honest opinion would say that you should actually recycle or resuse existing things but of course we should have used more recycled materials. the whole thing was a good experience overall but again if we were designing a pss then we should have been trying to be truly sustainable and design a service system without the need for a P(roduct).

Our system uses hooked pots that could hang on our mounting panel or balconies and i think it turned out well but we'll wait and see. I thought some of the tools for behaviour change were useful but the MEPSS i thought was a redundant task that doesn't truly have an impact just an interesting way to graph.

Community Garden Product Service System