Bringing Green Back to the Garden Design Goal Make people feel - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

January 24th, 2013 Project Exploring Interactions Emma Gohres Sustainable Living 1352520 Bringing Green Back to the Garden

Design Goal Make people feel proud to sustain their garden throughout winter

The Current Situation People buy new plants every spring, simply letting the plants die during autumn & winter

Interaction Vision I want the sustaining of a garden through winter to be like learning how to play the violin Several qualities Rewarding Several elements Challenging Lesson book Playful Try out nights Proud Tutor Frustrating Guilty Concerts Famous music Accomplished Etc. Relaxing

Qualities challenging passionate accomplished guilty frustrating like learning how to play the violin classy playful rewarding rewarding stiff relaxing concentrated proud expressive challenging rewarding proud the design should somehow get the when successfully maintaining the having successfully used the design, user to be challenged to put effort into garden, the design should help the the user can show off their hard work the garden and ac•vely maintain it. user feel rewarded, the same way to other people, much like a violin This could be compared to how successfully performing a song on the player can show off his or her work at a ac•vely playing on the violin can be violin would be rewarding. concert considered challenging, with both pi•alls and moments of accomplishment.

Cycle 1 Quick recap: perennial vs. annual gardener Annuals require too much We pick what we like! work, too much water Annuals are much more I have perennials, and diverse, more colour, cheerful occasionally annuals. Something different comes And in spring... up in every season we will see!

Cycle 1 The annual gardener Plant is of little value Short term orientation Lack of knowledge

Cycle 2 TRADE FAIR Add more value to the plant Exchanging knowledge Acquiring new plants

Cycle 3 Focus on the pot Exchange of knowledge Add more value to the plant

The Design Gift Wrap & Invitation > make the plant a gift > easily accessible > temporary yet attractive carrier > own interpretation > make it your pot > starting point for discussion Traces

The Design “enjoys sunlight” “prefers sun” “half-shade” “it can have wet roots” LIGHT & SHADOW “prune early April” “keep it quite wet” WATER “shovel the ground before planting” “water once a week” “remove a dead leaf once in a while” TOOLS “plant with fertilizer” FERTILIZER NURTURING “fertilize again” “beware of snails” “prefers a rich soil” Freedom vs. Discussion PESTS “might attract carrot fly” “benefits from clay soil” SOIL “prefers a sandy soil” “garlic can be used to deter the greenfly” different indication intensities of colour opening for tearing earth colours

The Design User receives invitation Invitation explains Trade Fair Invitation can be folded into pot Plant is potted from the garden Tear away tags from the pot for instructions Take pot to Trade Fair Users discuss their pots at the fair Discussion leads to new knowledge Plants are exchanged User returns with new plant Plant can be planted Instructions can be kept, the rest of the pot can be discarded also dynamically...

Test Colours & Symbols Discussion Gift wrap & Personal Pot

Evaluation Colours & Symbols Discussion Gift wrap & Personal Pot “After planting? I would throw it away.” low easy “I always cut out the instructions, I would do so here as well.” “Very accessible and inviting.” difficulty “Soundly made, an easy way to moving high difficult transport my plant”

Recommendations wider set of symbols reduced colours name tags different material ... different setting ?

January 24th, 2013 Project Exploring Interactions Emma Gohres Sustainable Living 1352520 Bringing Green Back to the Garden