Vac

Vac empowers children to clean up river pollution.

The brief:

4-week product design sprint in the Fall 2019 Collaborative Design Engineering Studio

The team:

Codesigned with Elizabeth Price

My role:

Visual communication design, implementation strategy

  1. PROBLEM

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The Charles River in Boston, like many American city rivers, collects a lot of plastic pollution every year.

2. RESEARCH

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3. HYPOTHESIS

We can clean up the river and prevent further plastic pollution by empowering children to clean up the river and learn about plastic pollution.

4. SOLUTION

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Vac

Remote controlled water trash collectors

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Vac has a playful form, to engage children in the initiative to take care of and clean up our rivers.

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5. PROTOTYPING

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Testing in the Charles River

 
 
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