Waste and Consumption

Waste and Consumption

by Jan Schmiedgen

1. Initial Problem

1.1. climate change, floods

2. Questions to answer

2.1. How to get rid of waste and rethink consumption?

2.2. Meaning: What waste means for the people in ....?

2.3. General Waste related Observations (Contextmapping)

2.3.1. Activities and Practices?

2.3.2. Values, Attitudes, Norms & Beliefs?

2.3.3. Environment

2.3.4. Needs, Wishes, Experiences?

2.3.5. Pattern of Behavior?

2.4. Improvised and surprising Solutions?

2.5. Historical Era Analysis: How Waste is perceived in the context of time?

2.5.1. When DE/CA/AT/RU established the first landfills?

2.6. Cultural barriers to transition?

3. Why do we care about it?

3.1. people getting ill... etc.

4. Resources left to check

4.1. YouTube Playlist with Waste Initiatives http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=9DF5A77F9B2A894C

5. Task (according to Schneider)

5.1. take radical user perspective (Ask other people, how they deal with ...)

5.2. How can we overcome the "I am not concerned" attitude?

5.3. adress problem + generate economy --> evolve DT-Approach

5.4. "Culture generates Economy" (or the other way around)

5.4.1. must be rooted in culture

5.4.2. must be connected to social or climate change

5.4.3. transform existing businesses / generate resp. explore new opportunities

5.4.4. Schneider: I want to learn something! --> show how to use and further develop the methodology "Show how DT can contribute" --> opportunity arises from observation

5.4.5. research from different perspectives / find smallest common denominator

6. Categories for classification of Waste Initiatives

6.1. Inluence Human Behavior

6.1.1. animate a certain behavior (funny bins)

6.1.2. raise awareness (waste art)

6.1.3. make people conscious

6.2. Approaches

6.2.1. reuse (second hand clothes, cars to africa)

6.2.2. repurpose (Earthship, use the same for different)

6.2.3. repair (repairment shops, mobile-phones in Africa)

6.2.4. recycle (upcycle, downcycle, etc.)

6.2.5. reduce (energy-reduction, less consumption)

6.2.6. disposal

6.3. Subject

6.3.1. Industry Solution (Businesses)

6.3.2. Individual Initiatives (one Person)

6.3.3. Private Initiatives (NPO, NGO, Community Initiatives (in villages etc.))

6.3.4. Governmental Initiatives and Directives

6.4. Causes/Trigger/Motivations for Initiatives

6.4.1. event based (natural disaster: e.g. New Orleans)

6.4.2. forced by government (Law, regulations, directives)

6.4.3. altruism

7. Preferenced Criteria

7.1. Like

7.1.1. fun, original, newness, creativity, innovation, surprise, feasible

7.2. Dislike

7.2.1. Corny, "Limited Opportunity for Application"

8. Schneider Mail extern: globalwasteideas.org intern: garbage clan

8.1. Description: Information exchange of "uncorny" waste initiatives and creative/innovative ideas on consumption.

8.2. Vision: The establishment of a worldwide idea-sharing platform for waste initiatives with a high degree of novelty.