MEET D22
WORK ARCHIVE
A multi-disciplinary team of MA students were brought together to collaborate on an innovation project for Nissan Design Europe, exploring the future of sustainable mobility. Using design research, mapping and visualisation tools, new uses and services for electric vehicles were proposed, based on potential users and personas of the future.
The video shows how the Department 22 team distilled a range of concepts developed during an initial one-week workshop into a service blueprint for Nissan. The Nissan Club is a car-sharing service and loyalty programme that works with users through their life stages – from interactive game-based driving for pre-licensed kids, to task-opportunities for parents doing the school run.
Design Director, Nissan Europe: "The workshop and design consultancy organised by the D22 team was a powerful experience that has provided us with a fantastic quantity of high quality innovative ideas. They quickly grasped the true nature of our challenges and turned them into plausible future scenarios."
BEYOND GREY
The Department 22 team ran a one-week interdisciplinary workshop to support Hitachi EU in its quest to explore the future opportunities of grey water. Participating groups were asked to create entrepreneurial ideas based on a randomly allocated city and a specific demographic, using persona building and story-telling to evolve viable ideas for the future. Brainstorming briefs investigated different possible themes, such as 'Packaged Water', 'Water as a Currency', and 'Living Home'. Ideas included Water Walla, a water delivery service in the Bhalswa slum, Delhi; a new grey water product system in London; and a technological connected home in Tokyo. This latter idea, incorporating nano-technology and the use of algae for an energy- and water-independent home was developed further following the workshop.
FOOD LOOP
Food Loop is a community-led food waste project running on Maiden Lane Estate in the London Borough of Camden. The aim of Food Loop is to capture the value of the food waste on the estate in order to generate enough income to pay local residents to run and manage the whole system. With some help from an amazing group of volunteers, various residents from the estate collect and compost the food scraps from their immediate neighbours and using a "Rocket" composting unit generate a rich fertiliser - Boostaplant that is being used on the estate itself to grow new food, and also sold in gardening shops as an efficient slug-repelling fertiliser.
POWER OF BAMBOO
The Power of Bamboo was a five-day territorial development workshop for the Korea Institute of Design Promotion, using Department 22's 'problems-as-opportunities' approach. A group of 30 postgraduate students developed innovative bamboo-based business ideas to invigorate commerce in an area of significant natural assets.
Ideas, exhibited at the Gwangju Design Biennale, included: a physical/digital play-seed kit to encourage children to grow food in cities; a restaurant 'doggy-bag' box service aimed at reducing food waste and other concepts that use bamboo as a food, packaging material and more.
Director of Design House South Korea: "Working with Department 22 was a fruitful experience. Their workshop introduced a new way of using design tools to develop sustainable local industry, addressing economic, social and environmental problems."
Chicken Run (still in development) was an innovation project for M&S, McDonald's UK and leading UK agricultural consultancy FAI Farms, exploring ideas for improving the lives of farmed poultry. Chicken Run focused on enrichment and environment seeking to make significant positive impact on animal welfare, contribute to better business operations, and ultimately, help develop a more sustainable farming practice.
An initial one-week workshop, run by the Department 22 team in October 2013, included site visits and access to expert advisors. Participants uncovered insights, identified challenges and generated ideas about a variety of issues incuding feed, barn design, perching, and a disconnect between consumers and farmers. During a six-month development phase prototypes of the most viable ideas were built and tested.
Director, FAI: "We were amazed at the quality of innovation and creativity that Clare, Dejan and their team provided. It was a fun and exciting journey for our business."
LONDON OLYMPICS
​Department 22 team worked with charity BioRegional, with the support of Coca-Cola, to deliver an installation for the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics that would both engage and educate athletes to take positive steps towards sustainable living, and in turn help them inspire others. Reducing energy consumption, increasing recycling and reducing food waste were the key messages. The outcome was a series of interactive 'viral' photo opportunity installations that included an educational treasure hunt of the Olympic village using London's landmarks.
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